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Article: MARCELLO MASTROIANNI: A TRIBUTE Mastroianni lived `La Dolce Vita' Italian actor who made more than 160 films also embraced life's pleasures; Italy gathers to say `ciao'; Actor carried long list of credits
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 23, 1996
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Like most people, Marcello Mastroianni didn't like the idea of
death. But the 72-year-old Italian actor's strategy for defying the
final curtain was hardly geriatric caution. It was a full frontal
embrace of life's pleasures.
As he succumbed to pancreatic cancer Thursday in Paris with his
two daughters, actor-friend Michel Piccoli and former lover Catherine
Deneuve at his bedside, this son of a cabinetmaker must have drawn
some satisfaction: He had actually lived la dolce vita.
Mastroianni, who won Best Actor prize at Cannes in 1970 for "The
Pizza Triangle" and in 1987 for "Dark Eyes," worked harder than most
actors half his age. He made more than 160 movies. He also drank
profusely, ...