Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved worldwide film stardom in the midst of the Fifties and was dubbed “in all probability essentially the most pretty woman on the planet” after the title of 1 of her movies, died in Rome on Jan. 16, her agent acknowledged. She was 95.
The agent, Paola Coming, didn’t current particulars. Nonetheless, Lollobrigida had a surgical process in September to revive a thigh-bone broken in a fall. She returned dwelling and acknowledged she had shortly resumed strolling.
“Lollo,” as she was lovingly nicknamed by Italians, began making movies in Italy merely after the highest of World Warfare II, as a result of the nation began to promote on the huge show display screen a stereotypical thought of Mediterranean magnificence as buxom and brunette. Other than “The World’s Most Beautiful Woman” in 1955, career highlights included Golden Globe-winner “Come September,” with Rock Hudson; “Trapeze;” “Beat the Devil,” a 1953 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones; and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell,” which gained Lollobrigida Italy’s excessive movie award, a David di Donatello, as biggest actress in 1969.
Robbie Knievel (R), a record-setting stunt performer and the son of Evel Knievel (L) died of pancreatic most cancers, his brother confirmed to numerous outlets Jan. 13. He was 60 years earlier.
Kelly Knievel, Robbie Knievel’s brother, instructed CBS Data Friday that his brother died after being in hospice take care of numerous days. He was collectively along with his three daughters.
“Daredevils don’t reside simple lives,” Kelly Knievel instructed The Associated Press. “He was an superior daredevil. Of us don’t truly understand how scary it is what my brother did.”
The singer suffered apparent cardiac arrest at her dwelling in Calabasas, merely north of Los Angeles, and was transported to a neighborhood hospital, in accordance with TMZ, the first to report the knowledge. She died hours later. “It is with a heavy coronary coronary heart that I’ve to share the devastating info that my pretty daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Lisa’s mother, Priscilla Presley, acknowledged in an announcement to The Associated Press. “She was in all probability essentially the most passionate, sturdy and loving woman I’ve ever recognized.”
Robbie Bachman, who provided the beat behind such 70s hits from the Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive as “Takin’ Care of Enterprise” and “You Ain’t Seen Nothing However,” has died. He was 69.
Bachman’s brother, Randy Bachman posted on Twitter that his brother died Jan. 12. “One different sad departure. The pounding beat behind BTO, my little brother Robbie has joined Mum, Dad & brother Gary on the alternative side,” he posted. “Probably Jeff Beck needs a drummer! He was an integral cog in our rock ‘n’ roll machine, and we rocked the world collectively.” No motive behind demise was talked about.