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Video Update - 11 January 2015

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The Librarians - 1x07 - and the Rule of Three

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Anita Ekberg, ‘La Dolce Vita’ Star, Dies at 83

   Anita Ekberg, the Swedish actress whose onscreen persona was best encapsulated by a scene of her wading sensually into the Trevi Fountain in “La Dolce Vita,” died Sunday in Rocca di Papa, near Rome. She was 83.

   Ekberg, who had long been living in Italy, had been hospitalized recently due to several unspecified illnesses, her lawyer Patrizia Ubaldi said, confirming her death. She had been in a wheelchair for several years after breaking a hip.

   Ekberg was one of cinema’s most famous “sex goddesses,” as renowned for her performances as she was for her alleged list of romances with major stars such as Frank Sinatra and Gary Cooper. In addition to “La Dolce Vita,” which made her an international film icon, Ekberg starred in “War and Peace” with Audrey Hepburn, “Artists and Models” with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin and “Paris Holiday” with Bob Hope.

   She auditioned for, but lost out on, the part of Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, “Dr. No.” Along with Marilyn Monroe, Ekberg was one of the most popular pinups of the 1950s.

   A former Miss Sweden, Ekberg snagged a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer for one of her initial Hollywood forays, the 1955 thriller “Blood Alley” with John Wayne and Lauren Bacall.

   Ekberg was born in Malmo, Sweden, the sixth of eight children. After doing some modeling in her teens she started her showbiz career in 1951 when she won the Miss Sweden title and then traveled to the U.S. to compete for the Miss Universe crown, which she didn’t win. She was put under contract by Universal instead.

   As a Universal starlet during the 1950s Ekberg landed small roles in pics including “Abbott and Costello Go to Mars,” in which she played a voluptuous guard on Venus, and “The Golden Blade.” She also appeared on several Bob Hope TV specials, where her bombshell curves were fodder for Hope’s jokes.

   Federico Fellini’s 1960 “La Dolce Vita,” in which Ekberg played Sylvia, a movie star pestered by paparazzi who dips into the Trevi fountain in a strapless black dress and calls out “Marcello,” shot her to super-stardom.

   Hosting Swedish radio show “Sommar” in 2005, Ekberg recalled shooting the Trevi Fountain scene in February, when the water in the fountain was cold and Mastroianni was drunk on vodka.

   “And there I was. I was freezing,” she said. “They had to lift me out of the water because I couldn't feel my legs anymore,” she said.

   In 1963 Ekberg co-starred with Ursula Andress, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin in the western-comedy “4 for Texas,” directed by Robert Aldrich.

   Ekberg was married twice; first to actor Anthony Steel from 1956 to 1959 and then to actor Rik Van Nutter from 1963 to 1975. She had no children.

   Though she made more than 50 films over five decades, by the late 1970s Ekberg’s career had taken a dive and she nearly stopped working. Her most recent role was playing a character named Ingrid in Italian TV series “Il Bello Delle Donne,” produced by Silvio Berlusconi’s Mediaset.

   According to Italian press reports, Ekberg died almost penniless.

   In December 2011, Italian newspapers reported that the then 80-year-old Ekberg was “destitute” after spending more than three months in a Rimini hospital with a broken thigh. During this time her home had been robbed and also damaged in a fire. Ekberg then applied for financial help from the Fellini Foundation.

   Her lawyer, Ubaldi, said a ceremony would be held in coming days at a Lutheran church in Rome.

Video Update - 10 January 2015

Global National News - 20150109

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Rod Taylor, Dies at 84

   Rod Taylor, the Australian-born actor who starred in George Pal’s adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “The Time

Machine” and in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” then decades later made a memorable swan-song appearance as Winston Churchill in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds,” died Wednesday of a heart attack in Los Angeles. He was 84.

   His daughter Felicia, a former CNN correspondent, confirmed the news Thursday.

   Taylor made his feature starring debut in 1960 sci-fier “The Time Machine,” portraying a fictionalized Wells, who invents a time machine in Victorian England and travels to the distant future. He also starred in a brief ABC adventure series, “Hong Kong.”

   The next year he voiced the lead canine, Pongo, in Disney’s “101 Dalmatians.” Even after an impressive performance in Hitchcock’s well-received 1963 “The Birds”, the actor never quite made it into the first rank of Hollywood actors.

   He was part of the starry ensemble of Liz Taylor-Richard Burton starrer “The V.I.P.s” and was second lead in “A Gathering of Eagles,” “Fate Is the Hunter” and “36 Hours.”

   In 1965 he starred in “Young Cassidy,” about the early life of the Irish playwright Sean O’Casey, leading a cast that included Julie Christie, Maggie Smith, Michael Redgrave and Edith Evans.

   Taylor starred in a couple of late-career vehicles for Doris Day, “Do Not Disturb” and “The Glass Bottom Boat,” then led the ensemble in “Hotel.” The actor starred opposite his “Time Machine” co-star Yvette Mimieux in the well-regarded actioner “Dark of the Sun” and had a supporting role in Antonioni’s 1970 drama “Zabriskie Point.”

   He had another go at TV with the short-lived CBS series “Bearcats” in 1971 and NBC Western “The Oregon Trail” in 1976. But Taylor’s film career sputtered by the 1970s. He was second lead to John Wayne in “The Train Robbers”; starred in 1977 Australian effort “The Picture Show Man,” about the early film business in the country; and starred alongside Rex Harrison in bland Mario Puzo adaptation “A Time to Die” in 1982.

   By the 1980s he was primarily a TV actor. Taylor played star Jaclyn Smith’s father in ABC telepic “Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy” and appeared in “Charles and Diana: A Royal Love Story.” The actor starred in a pair of short-lived series, ABC’s “Masquerade” in 1983 and CBS’ “Outlaws” in 1986-87, and recurred on “Falcon Crest” as Frank Agretti.

   Taylor was born in Sydney and went to art school, East Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College. He did commercial illustration for newspapers and a bit of boxing; he was interested in acting, but seeing Laurence Olivier in a touring production of “Richard III” sparked him to pursue a career in it.

   During the 1950s he appeared in supporting roles in a number of prominent films, including George Stevens’ “Giant,” Civil War pic “Raintree County” and Delbert Mann’s “Separate Tables,” sometimes credited as Rodney Taylor.

Taylor worked only occasionally after the mid-1990s, appearing in a prominent role in Australian director Stephan Elliott’s “Welcome to Woop Woop” and recurring on TV series “Walker, Texas Ranger.” After an absence of seven years, he returned in 2007 for the Sci Fi Channel film “Kaw,” essentially an update of “The Birds,” but more prominently, he cameo’d as Winston Churchill in a key scene in Tarantino’s 2009 film “Inglourious Basterds.”

   In 2010 the cast of “Inglourious Basterds,” including Taylor, won the SAG Award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture.

   In addition to daughter Felicia Taylor, from his second marriage, the actor is survived by third wife Carol Kikumura, to whom he was married since 1980.