I talk with tons of women of my age and they’re happy about it
Posted in General on 09. Oct, 2010
I talk with tons of women of my age, and they’re happy about it.”What has surprised some is the success of the show. Television in Italy has long been dominated by infantile programmes featuring song and dance numbers. Above all, the programmes are an excuse to parade scantily clad starlets, each jostling for a corner of the screen.Velone was born as an ironic twist on this trend. The producer, Antonio Ricci, was behind last summer’s hitVeline (“Showgirls”), in which young women competed for a permanent television starlet job. Critics panned Veline, prompting Mr Ricci to launchVelone, where the winner claims €250,000 (£170,000). Participants must be 65 or older, and the oldest so far was 94.Velone appears on Mediaset, the network owned by Italy’s Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi.. Three Corsican separatists wanted in France on terrorism charges have been arrested in Portugal after raiding a bank.
A spokesman for the Portuguese police said yesterday: “The men are wanted for various violent acts committed in French territory, some using explosives.”The Corsican-born French nationals were seized on Tuesday after they raided a branch of the Spanish bank Banco Santander, in Viseu in central Portugal. They held the bank manager and another official hostage until they reached their getaway car, only to drive into a police ambush. They sped off and the police chased them for 20km.They were cornered by police in a wooded area. Two of the raiders were injured in a shootout with police and were taken to hospital under armed guard The third was jailed. He appeared in court in Viseu yesterday and was remanded in custody while police continued their investigation.The police spokesman said that the three men, all 26, had been trained in the French Foreign Legion and were “extremely professional”.
He said: “They had excellent physical and strategic training.” They carried Uzi sub-machine guns and pistols, and wore wigs and bullet-proof vests.The men had robbed two other banks on Monday, one also in Viseu and the other in the ancient university town of Coimbra, north of Lisbon. Police said that they believed the men had also carried out two raids three weeks ago in Aveiro, south of Porto.They apparently belong to a groupdedicated to raising funds for the Corsican independence movement. The group has been based for some time in Portugal.The FLNC is one of several Corsican separatist groups carrying out armed attacks against France.. The Vatican declared a worldwide, political offensive against the legalisation of gay marriage yesterday, instructing Roman Catholics to resist any attempt to give social standing to “deviant” and “unnatural” couples. Voting for such laws was itself “gravely immoral”, the watchdog warned.The document, signed by the Pope’s chief theological adviser, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, said: “There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God’s plan for marriage and family.”Marriage exists solely between a man and a woman. Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural, moral law. Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behaviour …