Gina Lollobrigi-dead

[Discordant Resonance]

At 95, she certainly had a good innings.

[Nocturnal Submission]

The Beeb's obituary is pretty good: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64292026

I must confess that I had a pretty big crush on her younger self.

RIP

[WOM]

If it hadn't been for a couple of gags on The Flintstones, I'd probably have gotten to roughly 50 without having ever heard her name. 95 is indeed a good run.

[multipleman78]

I only knew her as the trumpet of Joey 'the Lips' Fagan in The Commitments. Pick a nipple and try again with the saxophonist, who called his instrument Kim Basinger.

[Jah Womble]

^The mind boggles.

Back in t' day, my mother remarked that one of my girlfriends favoured Gina Lollobrigida, looks-wise. (Looking at some of those old shots, I think my mother herself somewhat resembled her. Probably just the 'look of the era', tbh...)

RIP, of course.

[jwdd27]

When we quit out of Netflix on the TV the other night, there was a (yet another) Joanna Lumley travelogue on, where she was in Rome, and she met with Ms Lollibrigida and went through her photo collection. Castro was a "lovely man", apparently.
I was surprised she was still alive, and then the next day she wasn't.

Her Wiki is a good document of a life well-lived, including her standing for the senate last year, as well as her marriage to a much younger man, which she later accused him of faking using an imposter as the bride.
Howard Hughes' obsession/vendetta with her is something I'd like to read more about.

[G-Man]

I saw Lolobrigida as Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, opposite Anthony Quinn's Quasimodo, when I was a young teenager. I was quite smitten.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Howard Hughes' obsession/vendetta with her is something I'd like to read more about.

You probably wouldn't TBH. Hughes was a deeply disturbed individual who damaged almost every person and project he came in contact with.