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Friday, February 8, 2008

The Cinema of Amanda Knox

posted by on February 8 at 13:58 PM

Who will play Francesco Sollecito, the father of Amanda’s former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito?
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Here we see Francesco walking out of Capanne prison, moments after visiting with his past-trapped son.

A group of reporters and cameramen lurk under a tree at the east part of the parking lot. They are with ABC News; they are waiting for something to happen. An hour later, something does happen! The father of suspect Raffaele Sollecito emerges with his new glamorous wife—she is blond, wearing a mink coat, black gloves, and winning the late rounds of her battle against the undefeated forces of time.

We reporters surround the father, Francesco Sollecito, ask the same old questions (how is your son? what about Amanda?), and he gives the same old answers (Raffaele is fine; he is studying for his computer exam; Amanda is a strange woman).

Francesco enters his car—hot wife behind the wheel—and leaves. The reporters call it a good day and leave.

EDITOR'S NOTE: On October 3, 2011, Amanda Knox was acquitted of the murder of Meredith Kercher and released from prison.

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1

A wonderful read, but a very depressing story, Charlie.

And...do you like women or what?

Posted by Bauhaus | February 8, 2008 2:10 PM
2

And there's Charles lurking in the background.

Posted by supa | February 8, 2008 2:17 PM
3

where is the hot trophy wife?

Posted by max solomon | February 8, 2008 2:24 PM
4

Fix the link.

Posted by Mr. Poe | February 8, 2008 2:28 PM
5

lame! when i read your article, that's not how i envisioned the prison exit at all. there's so much open space -- desolation. for some reason, i saw more shrubs, and a smaller environment.

Posted by infrequent | February 8, 2008 2:41 PM
6

Francesco looks a lot like Bill O'Reilly.

Posted by raindrop | February 8, 2008 2:58 PM
7

And there's Charles in the back. Funny.

Posted by Greg | February 8, 2008 3:08 PM
8

so charles, does his trophy wife have a nice ass? i know that's why you were back there.

Posted by karl | February 8, 2008 3:28 PM
9

For God's sake, please quit pushing this story. It's a dreadful example of purple prose and idiotic musing about the Otherness of Europe and the presumed debauchery of college students. Peppered with confessional bits that are enough to make my skin crawl.

It sucks. Just stop posting about bits of it, please.

Posted by k | February 9, 2008 6:35 AM

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