It happened last week…
Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida is seen on the set of the 1959 film “La Legge” (“The Law”). les Films Corona/Roger Corbeau/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
The actor, once dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world,” was an Italian film star of the 1950s and 60s Gina Lollobrigidadied in Rome.
Lollobrigida appeared in more than two dozen European films before she caught the attention of American audiences in the early 1950s when she starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in John Huston’s Beat the Devil.
The release of a Franco-Italian historical film in 1954 put Lollobrigida on the cover of Time Magazine, somewhat foreshadowing her second career as a successful photojournalist in the 1970s and the publication of several books.
In 1999, Lollobrigida ran unsuccessfully for the European Parliament. And just last year she tried to win a seat in the Italian Senate.
Gina Lollobrigida died on Monday. She was 95 years old.
David Crosby of the group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performs at Olympia Stadium in Detroit on June 12, 1970. Tom Copi/Archive Michael Ochs/Getty Images
We lost another legend in the past week, a music maker of a generation: singer, songwriter and guitarist David Crosby.
Crosby, an original member of The Byrds, had come out with “Mr. Tambourine Man”, a song by Bob Dylan, a big hit:
The Byrd’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” on The Ed Sullivan Show by The Ed Sullivan Show on YouTube
In 1968 he formed the folk rock supergroup Crosby Stills & Nash with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, later joined by singer-songwriter Neil Young.
Her acclaimed album Déjà Vu sold eight million copies.
To hear CSN&Y David Crosby’s “Déjà Vu” click on the player below:
Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills & Nash – Theme on YouTube
Rita Braver sat down with Crosby for “Sunday Morning” in 2008:
Braver: “How did you get top billing?”
Crosby: “It’s very simple: try to put it another way.”
Braver: “Nash, Stills, Crosby? It’s okay. Nash probably liked that!”
Crosby: No, he didn’t. There is no other way.
From 2008: David Crosby on Harmony (and Disharmony) 10:44
David Crosby, who was twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had a long struggle with substance abuse and received a liver transplant in 1994. He died Thursday at the age of 81.
Story produced by Amy Wall. Publisher: Joseph Frandino.
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