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Longtime crook Ezio Barbieri at 96.

 

Cut a dashing figure back in the day.

 

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On 04/01/2018 at 20:18, drol said:

 

 

*Sergio Graziani (1930)

 

 

Sergio Graziani dead at 87.

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Southern legend slapface Jimmy il Fenomeno looks awful for his 86th birthday.

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On 30/06/2018 at 12:27, drol said:

Southern legend slapface Jimmy il Fenomeno looks awful for his 86th birthday.

Which is his last. Dead at 86.

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On 08/05/2018 at 16:07, Spade_Cooley said:

Lara Saint Paul, DDP pick and the woman who brought aerobics to Italy, dead at 73.

 

Only The Independent gave Lara a proper obituary in the end. She remains languishing in the List of the Lost and loses the chance to be (possibly?) the first Eritrean to be a successful pick.

 

Personally, I agree that the Indy's exclusion as a DDP obit source deserves a rethink for 2019, because paper is on the way out and they give obits to interesting people. 

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That is the third person who lost out on a DDP obit due to the Indy not counting this year afaik. The other two are Claribel Alegria and TJS pick Cynthia Heimel. They do seem a bit more click baity nowadays, but I’ll let Spade be the judge of that...

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On 18/08/2018 at 14:46, Spade_Cooley said:

Saw that Rita Borsellino, brother of Paolo and anti-Mafia campaigner, died earlier this week, and reading the Italian press seems like it was out there that she was in the final stages of stage 4 cancer. She'd been profiled in QO publications before, but no signs of a valid obit just yet.

 

She QO'd.

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Poet and journalist Guido Ceronetti has died aged 91. Complete nutshell during the last part of his life, his articles had no whatsoever sense. Anyway he was a spirited author for most of his career and often went against colleagues and predominating culture.

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5 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

He must’ve died having the time of his life then...

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He was having sex with a 23 year old Romanian prostitute and I had never heard of him before. The whole thing was very exaggerated.

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The Daily Telegraph and The Times have honoured Maurizo Zanfanti with proper obituaries.  

 

The Telegraph's effort is a classic IMO.

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17 minutes ago, DevonDeathTrip said:

The Daily Telegraph and The Times have honoured Maurizo Zanfanti with proper obituaries.  

 

The Telegraph's effort is a classic IMO.

 

Comments are entertaining too.  :D

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^^ Wow, I haven't seen a spread like that since Last Tango In Paris....:D

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I see... a butter reference has already been made...

 

Anyway, I considered him as part of the "Italian glut" - which I thought we have had, and which now might be starting to dissolve. Morricone, Napolitano, Berlusconi.

 

Edit: Camilleri, too.

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