Italy Down Under

. ‘He’s no George Clooney (bottom right)’ .. thousands of Italian women outraged after Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi (top right) makes a cutting remark about Rosy Bindi (left).. About 97,000 Italian women have signed the “Women offended by the premier” appeal after Berlusconi told the matronly, bespectacled leftist Rosy Bindi that she was “more beautiful than intelligent” in a swipe at both her looks and brains. Photo: Getty Images Silvio Berlusconi’s cutting remark about a female rival’s lack of beauty has stirred a rare public backlash from thousands of Italian women who had largely kept silent about the Prime Minister’s womanising and sex scandals. “Someone tell Berlusconi he’s no George Clooney,” centrist Senator Patrizia Bugnano said, calling him a “chauvinist” [...]