

Mike and Raymond have gone a few months apart. Both loved, admired and so lamented by millions of people. Yet
that different characters!
The difference between Mike and Raymond has emerged clearly in the reactions to their death. Reactions appear to be similar (sorry, compliance etc). but totally different.
Mike has been awarded a huge respect for her figure. Because the character (especially his death) has been perceived primarily as a character to be respected, a man who has personally contributed to the history of television in years in which the development of television has meant development of the whole country. Mike has won these gals socio-historical, especially in years when his quiz accounted for Italy national unity, growth, the economic boom. That 's what made him a character. The simplicity of its modest man she married perfectly with his role as creator of the unconscious Italian spirit medium. The famous article by Umberto Eco did the rest, in the sense that it has since been formalized its historical role that this has totally exceeded its capacity, its conscience, its programs, its successes. The state funeral, after all, was precisely the meaning they wanted to pay tribute to Mike a tribute to the man who represented something, the witness of time, to someone who has done little in his history of something. A tribute to "head" and then, dictated by the reasoning, awareness of what he represented.
For Raymond was all completely different.
Raymond was first and foremost an artist. An actor, one who has always amused the audience. People who have seen him on TV for so many years have always felt like a showman, as a character who had the power to make them laugh and have fun. There was to him the recognition of this role purely artistic. Since the TV into the homes of all, over the years, Raymond has become one of the family, like his uncle witty like invite you to dinner because bickering between courses in that funny way with his wife. That is, while Mike has developed a recognition "head", with Raymond there was a recognition "of the heart." This is why the death of Raymond has raised more excitement more affective.
Two different relations with the public, then. Two different characters. But two deaths, however symbolic have certified that their TV is no more, is hopelessly over.
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