One of the great fathers of entertainment and variety in Italy leaves with Enrico Vaime. He died today at the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome. Considered one of the most brilliant radio and television authors, he was 85 years old. With Italo Terzoli, with whom he founded the artistic firm Terzoli & Vaime, he was one of the most prolific authors of theater and radio and television variety between the sixties and seventies. Its production is boundless and includes dozens of highly successful and popular titles. Considered a master by successive generations of authors, Vaime has always stood out for his intelligent irony and gentle humor. Born in Perugia on January 19, 1936, he joined Rai in 1960 by winning a competition.
He has signed about 200 programs for TV, including the varieties Quelli della Domenica (1968), Canzonissima ’68 and ’69, Fantastico ’88 and, with Maurizio Costanzo, Memorie dal nero e nero (Rai Uno); le fiction A son in half, Italian Restaurant, My son is 70 years old. With Costanzo also his latest experience on TV, S’è fare notte, from 2012 to 2016. Numerous theatrical musicals also carry the signature of Vaime, especially for the couple Garinei and Giovannini. Among his musical comedies: Felicibumta, Even bankers have a soul, Life begins every morning and many others. With Enrico Montesano he did Bravo, Blessed are you and In spite of everything blessed are you. Among the many experiences, also television broadcasts on Telemontecarlo, in 1992, alongside Luciano Rispoli as co-author of the texts for the variety La più bella sei tu, and, in the 2000s, some broadcasts on La7 such as the nostalgic Anni luce program, which, through clips of films from the past and interviews with the protagonists, he analyzed the evolution of Italian society from the second post-war period to today.
Still on the same broadcaster he was the protagonist of Omnibus and, subsequently, a regular guest of the Coffee Breack program, then hosted by Tiziana Panella. On the radio he has collaborated on hundreds of programs and for decades he has hosted Black Out, on Radio2 on Saturday and Sunday mornings. He has published many books, including Love means, Everyone can enrich but the poor, The master’s breeches, Losing your head, Don’t count on me, Black Out, When the rocket wasn’t there, The idiots are not those of a time and even at the cost of lying, good people – almost an autobiography.
He had been sick for a while, at least two years, according to Maurizio Costanzo, his great friend who at Ansa remembered him with emotion: “We were a good group, me, Enrico, Marcello Marchesi, Italo Terzoli. Those were the years of great variety. , on the Saturday evenings of Rai1. Enrico was extraordinary, his figure was elegant irony. He was the most ironic person I have ever met, he guessed the disarming joke even in the face of a sensational fact. Marcello Marchesi said that when Enrico swiped a finger in the collar of his shirt, he was about to come up with a joke … What can I say? I feel more alone, it seems to me a trench … Wednesday I will start the new episode of the Costanzo show dedicating it to him “. Also moved Fabio Fazio who, live on Che Tempo che fa, spoke of a “gigantic loss, personally, for his family, for his friends, for the show”, adding: “He leaves us a lesson in taste, in absolute elegance. , from him you learned what you can or cannot say, he always had an illuminating joke “. And again the director of La7 Andrea Salerno who entrusts his sadness to twitter: “TV is in mourning, one of those who taught us how to do it is gone” and the director of Rai New 24 Andrea Vianello, who always on Twitter he writes: “Enrico Vaime, see the genius entry. I will miss you Maestro”. Among the first to give the news Fabio Di Iorio, head of entertainment of Rai2: “Enrico Vaime was the most beautiful, cultured and intelligent person in the world. He is no longer there and we are all so much poorer. An infinite hug to Monica and to the whole family “.