9 d. ago Claudia Cardinale: toughness and charisma went with the sensual allure

The smouldering star of Once Upon a Time in the West, 8½ and The Leopard had her best roles for Italian directors• Claudia Cardinale, star of The Leopard, dies aged 87• Claudia Cardinale: a life in picturesClaudia Cardinale was part of the great wave of Italian movie stars whose postwar career took them from Europe to Hollywood; these included Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and Monica Vitti, who the American film industry prized not merely for their beauty but also for their mystery: an exotic feline allure and sense of toughness and survival, and even tragedy. But Cardinale perhaps had something her contemporaries didn’t: a kind of simplicity and frankness to go with the sensual allure. She often played opposite Alain Delon, whose own beauty complemented – almost merged with – hers.In Visconti’s early masterpiece Rocco and His Brothers from 1960, Cardinale played Ginetta, engaged to one of Rocco’s brothers from the uncouth south and her parents are openly hostile when their son-in...

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9 d. ago Claudia Cardinale had toughness, charisma and sensual allure. Yet Hollywood just couldn’t do her justice

The smouldering star of Once Upon a Time in the West, 8½ and The Leopard had her best roles for Italian directors• Claudia Cardinale, star of The Leopard, dies aged 87• Claudia Cardinale: a life in picturesClaudia Cardinale was part of the great wave of Italian movie stars whose postwar career took them from Europe to Hollywood; these included Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and Monica Vitti, who the American film industry prized not merely for their beauty but also for their mystery: an exotic feline allure and sense of toughness and survival, and even tragedy. But Cardinale perhaps had something her contemporaries didn’t: a kind of simplicity and frankness to go with the sensual allure. She often played opposite Alain Delon, whose own beauty complemented – almost merged with – hers.In Visconti’s early masterpiece Rocco and His Brothers from 1960, Cardinale played Ginetta, engaged to one of Rocco’s brothers from the uncouth south and her parents are openly hostile when their son-in...

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1 week ago Once Upon A Time In The West star Claudia Cardinale dead at 87: Italian screen siren of 1960s passes away

In English, her best-loved roles include the reformed prostitute Jill in the 1968 spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West and an exiled princess in the 1963 film The Pink Panther.

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1 week ago Claudia Cardinale dead: Hollywood actress and star of The Pink Panther passes away

Claudia Cardinale starred in some of the most celebrated European films of the 1960s and 1970s, including Federico Fellini’s 8½ and Luchino Visconti's The Leopard

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1 week ago Claudia Cardinale, glamorous star of The Leopard and Once Upon a Time in the West, dies aged 87

Tunisian-born actor worked with the great Italian auteurs of the era, including Visconti, Fellini and Sergio LeoneClaudia Cardinale, a glamorous symbol of post-war Italian cinema who enjoyed a long and varied acting career on film and in the theatre, has died at age 87, according to AFP and other French media.Raised in Tunisia to a family of Sicilian origin, Cardinale’s introduction to the movie world came in 1957 after she won a beauty contest in Tunis and was rewarded with a trip to the Venice film festival. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Charlie Kirk’s shocking killing sets the stage for a federal crackdown | Moustafa Bayoumi

Maga leaders blame a mythically powerful left for political violence. Now, they are bent on destroying anyone who opposes themI disagreed with Charlie Kirk on pretty much everything, but his shocking and morally repugnant assassination is deeply concerning, and not just because it’s another example of the lethality of our politics. Kirk’s killing is also sending prominent conservatives on a warpath, setting the stage for a dangerous expansion of federal government repression.Kirk was a social media megastar and the founder of Turning Point USA, the foremost rightwing youth organization in the country. His political positions were to the far-right, and his language was often combative, to say the least. He called Martin Luther King, Jr “awful” and said “we made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s”. He believed in the so-called great replacement theory, which asserts that elites are encouraging mass migration to undermine white people in western countries. ...

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