Lifestyle FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014 Italian actress Virna Lisi dead at 78

talian actress Virna Lisi, who played opposite Hollywood stars including Frank Sinatra in the 1960s Iand later established herself an acclaimed character actress, has died at the age of 78. Italian media quoted her son as saying that Lisi had passed away peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday, a month after being diagnosed Philippine crime lord with an incurable illness. Born in Ancona in 1936, she was an established cine- ma and theatre actress before Hollywood producers enjoys jailhouse rock looking for a new Marilyn Monroe came rime lord “Herbert C” was enjoying chart success. In one of many clips about calling in the mid- national fame and growing iTunes his career posted on YouTube and other 1960s.With Jack Csuccess after reinventing himself as social media, Colanggo appears at a Lemmon she made a lovelorn balladeer from inside the concert in the Bilibid gymnasium where “How to Murder Your Philippines’ biggest jail-until police cut he accepts an Ivory “platinum” record Wife” in 1965 and fol- In this file picture taken on May 23, 1994 US film short his career. Herbert Colanggo lost his award for selling 15,000 albums. He also lowed up by starring director Quentin Tarantino poses with the Golden recording studio and other bribe-induced celebrates being voted “best new male alongside Tony Curtis in Palm he was awarded for his film “Pulp Fiction”, musical privileges after a raid on the recording artist” by a group of entertain- “Not with my Wife, You next to Italian actress Virna Lisi who was named secret prison villas kept by 20 of the ment journalists this year, an accolade Don’t” and with Sinatra best actress for her part in the French movie “La nation’s most notorious robbery, kidnap- that garnered mainstream media cover- in “Assault on a Queen” ping and drug kingpins. The Philippines’ age. “I’ve always dreamt of becoming a Reine Margot” at the 47th Cannes International the following year. Film Festival in Cannes. — AFP photos prisons have long had a reputation for recording artist,” Colanggo, who por- Reluctant to be graft, but Monday’s raid shocked the trays himself on Facebook as a newly restricted to love-inter- festival in 1966. After taking nation with the justice secretary express- devout and repentant Catholic, told est roles based on her a break from acting in the ing outrage that Colanggo and the others local broadcaster ABS-CBN in a recent looks, she turned down early 1970s, Lisi successfully were “living like kings”. The raid at jailhouse interview. “I was raised well. I the sexy part taken by reinvented herself as a char- Manila’s Bilibid prison uncovered high- am a victim who lost his way.” acter actress with a broad powered weapons, methamphetamines, Colanggo’s album can be bought for Jane Fonda in Roger range. Her portrayal of blow-up sex dolls, a jacuzzi, a strip bar $3.99 from Apple’s iTunes store, and is Vadim’s “Barbarella” where prostitutes were brought in-and also available on the streaming music (1968) and moved back Catherine de’ Medici in “La Colanggo’s fully equipped music studio. service Spotify. AFP contacted Ivory on to Europe after only Reine Margot” (1994) saw her “We are very angry because they continue Thursday to ask about its relationship three years of a seven- pick up both a French Cesar to live lives of luxury,” Dante Jimenez, with Colanggo, but a staffer who year contract with and the best actress award at chairman of the watchdog group answered the phone said the person in Paramount studios. Cannes. She also worked Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption, charge of his career was on leave and While in Hollywood, she extensively in television and told AFP. “It’s like they just transferred unavailable for comment. maintained a parallel made the last of her nearly 80 from one mansion to another.” In the album’s lead single, which like career in European cine- films, “Il Piu Bel Giorno Della Colanggo entered Bilibid in 2009 his other songs are posted on YouTube, ma, notably playing a A picture taken on May A picture taken on Mia Vita,” in 2002. She is sur- after a near decade-long reign as the Colanggo sings in a raspy baritone of lead role in “The Birds, 20, 1985 in Cannes shows September 27, 1969 vived by her son Corrado leader of a feared bank robbery gang. the pain of not being able to profess his the Bees and the Italian actress Virna Lisi shows Italian actress Pesci and three grandchil- “His gang was so bold and daring that love to a woman. The song’s music Italians,” which shared arriving for the Palmares Virna Lisi during the dren. Her husband of 53 their presence alone literally swept the video was filmed in his prison studio, the top prize, the Palme ceremony of Cannes film shooting of the film years, the architect Franco vaults of all banks in all urban areas with him wearing lipstick and thick d’Or, at the Cannes film festival. “Le temps des loups”. Pesci, died in 2013. — AFP nationwide,” former Bilibid prison head make-up that fails to hide acne scars. Venancio Tesoro said in a post on his Colanggo, in a long-sleeved Bart blog. Police say one of his gang’s bank Simpson shirt and auburn-tinted shades, heists on the outskirts of Manila left 10 sits on a bar stool while singing, backed Bon Iver frontman people dead, making it one of the coun- up by a full band like a lounge singer. try’s bloodiest robberies. Colanggo was sentenced to 12 to 14 years in jail. Special privileges to curate new festival Bilibid is infamous for overcrowding and Bureau of Corrections’ director the brutal conditions-it was built to Ferdinand Bucayu insisted on Thursday he frontman of Bon Iver, who won critical acclaim Grammys. Eaux Claires comes amid a surge in the num- accommodate 8,900 inmates but cur- he had not known about Colanggo’s for his emotionally resonant indie folk rock, has ber of US summer music festivals, which increasingly rently houses more than 23,000. music career or special privileges, and Tannounced a festival that promises to throw a spot- have become vital dates on musicians’ calendars. —AFP Colanggo, though, was able to quickly pointed the finger at corrupt prison offi- light on new music. Justin Vernon announced the inau- buy his way into the privileged world of cials. “I have nothing to do with what gural festival to take place on July 17-18 in his hometown the prison’s top criminal kingpins, some was happening,” Bucayu told AFP in a of Eau Claire in the Upper Midwestern state of Wisconsin, of whom have previously even been phone interview. “We need more com- known for its scenic landscape of forest, rivers and lakes. caught leaving the jail for short periods petent and trustworthy prison guards.” “After several years of touring and playing music festivals of time. Jimenez, the head of the crime watch- of all different types around the world, I wanted to put dog, scoffed at Bucayu’s professions of together an event that would honor what we love about A star is born ignorance. this place,” he said in a statement. With lots of time on his hands, “That’s crazy. And (if true) it only The singer-songwriter said that the festival-to be Colanggo decided to pursue his long- shows how rotten the system is, that called “Eaux Claires” in a play on his hometown’s original held ambition of becoming a music star, the leadership can be compartmental- French name, which means “clear water”-would be within and rebranded himself “Herbert C”. He ized and not know what is happening,” had a music studio built inside his prison he said. “Everyone needs to be replaced view of the Chippewa River and have one of the “most villa and recorded a 10-song album of and there should be a separate island diverse and special festival lineups of the year.” Vernon- syrupy love songs called “Kinabukasan”, to keep prisoners like these.” For the then struggling with illness, relationship troubles and a which means “Future”. Colanggo, who is time being, Colanggo and the other lackluster career-locked himself in a cabin in Wisconsin believed to be in his late 30s, was picked crime lords have been removed from for three months in 2007 to write Bon Iver’s debut album, up by one of the Philippines’ big music Bilibid and taken to a high-security “For Emma, Forever Ago.” File photo, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver poses with the labels, Ivory Music and Video, and his facility of the justice department’s The independent album gradually won acclaim for the Best Alternative Music Album “Bon Iver” award and first album, released this year, was a investigation unit. —AFP emotional power of songs such as “Skinny Love.” Bon the Best New Artist award at the 54th Grammy Iver’s self-titled follow-up album in 2012 won two Awards in Los Angeles, California. — AFP