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Article: Marcello Mastroianni: 1924-96 `The unheroic man' who conquered a world of hearts
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 20, 1996
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Marcello Mastroianni, the last surviving giant of postwar Italian
cinema, died yesterday in Paris, aged 72, of pancreatic cancer. Best
known abroad as the alter ego of director Federico Fellini after his
breakthrough role as the jaded journalist and Fellini surrogate in
"La Dolce Vita" (1960), Mr. Mastroianni reworked the
sexy-Italian-lover stereotype into a much deeper and more humane
archetype of confused modern man. His modesty, humor and twinkling
wisdom made him a charmer in comedies, too. He stood in for Fellini
in the latter's "8 1/2" (1963), "City of Women" (1981) and "Ginger
and Fred" (1986), and played himself in Fellini's "Intervista"
(1987).
In that film, Mr. Mastroianni was ...