It occurred this previous week…
The actor as soon as known as "probably the most stunning girl on the earth," Italian movie star of the Nineteen Fifties and '60s Gina Lollobrigida, died in Rome.
Lollobrigida appeared in additional than two dozen European movies, earlier than capturing the eye of American audiences within the early Nineteen Fifties, when she starred in filmmaker John Huston's "Beat the Satan" alongside Humphrey Bogart.
The discharge of an Italian-French interval movie in 1954 would land Lollobrigida on the duvet of Time Journal, which in some methods foreshadowed her second profession, as a profitable photojournalist within the Nineteen Seventies, and the publication of a number of books.
In 1999, Lollobrigida unsuccessfully ran for the European Parliament. And simply final 12 months, she tried to win a seat in Italy's Senate.
Gina Lollobrigida died on Monday. She was 95 years outdated.
We misplaced one other legend this previous week, a music-maker of a technology: singer, songwriter and guitarist David Crosby.
An authentic member of The Byrds, Crosby had an enormous hit in 1965 with "Mr. Tambourine Man," a Bob Dylan track:
In 1968, together with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, he fashioned the folk-rock supergroup Crosby Stills & Nash, later including singer-songwriter Neil Younger.
Their acclaimed album "Déjà Vu" offered eight million copies.
To listen to CSN&Y carry out David Crosby's "Déjà Vu" click on on the participant beneath:
Rita Braver sat down with Crosby in 2008 for "Sunday Morning":
Braver: "How'd you get prime billing?"
Crosby: "It is quite simple: strive saying it some other method."
Braver: "Nash, Stills, Crosby? It is okay. Most likely Nash appreciated that!"
Crosby: "No, he did not. It does not work some other method. One in every of them goes bum-ba da ba da, and not one of the others do."
David Crosby, who was twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame, had a prolonged battle with substance abuse, and obtained a liver transplant in 1994. He died Thursday on the age of 81.
Story produced by Amy Wall. Editor: Joseph Frandino.
See additionally:
- From 2021: David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash communicate ("Sunday Morning")
- From 2008: The life and wild occasions of David Crosby ("Sunday Morning")
