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...died in Paris, attended by his longtime love Catherine Deneuve and their daughter Chiara. But Marcello Mastroianni's compatriots would not let the actor known as "the face of Italy" pass into memory without a poetic farewell. So just after sunset on the day he succumbed, at 72, to pancreatic cancer, his wife Flora stood with the mayor of Rome and 500 other mourners at the Trevi Fountain, into whose waters Anita Ekberg had lured Mastroianni in the famous scene from Federico Fellini's 1960 La Dolce Vita. Now the lights faded, the water from the Neptune statue stopped...
That was Mastroianni: the postheroic hero, defining the European male in all his charm, complexity, failure. Husband and lover, actor and movie star, deft comedian and suavest delineator of atomic-age anomie--there was a Marcello for every sexual taste, every moral mood. And he loved being those people; that's why he kept at it for a half-century, in more than 120 pictures. "When I make films," he said in 1987, "I am absolutely happy. And when the film is finished, I am looking for another film. Otherwise my life is a little more bored...
...been up three nights straight doing things that would excite anyone but him. These art films won international success because of his effortless allure. La Notte, with its blank walls and arid stares, was withal an essay in star quality. We could happily watch Marcello being unhappy, doing anything or nothing. He was charisma in lethargy...
...meets woman on tedious train trip. Woman makes eyes before ostentatiously setting off for the bathroom. Man follows, panting. When they're locked in the bathroom together, just on the verge of--oops, my stop, says woman. If the protagonist of "City of Women," Snaporaz (Marcello Mastroianni), thinks this lady's a tease, just wait to see what her friends have in store for him when he follows her to a feminist convention...
...AILING. MARCELLO MASTROIANNI, 72, actor; from kidney trouble; in Milan. His illness has forced the versatile screen star to postpone a reunion with his first love, the stage...