Ciao, Carlo
When you say the name Carlo Ponti to some people, particularly people over the age of 50, they aren't going to remember the great movies he produced, such as "Doctor Zhivago."
They won't talk about his collaborations with some of the great European directors, such as Federico Fellini ("La Strada"), Michelangelo Antonioni ("Blow-Up," "The Passenger"), Vittorio De Sica ("Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," "Marriage, Italian Style") and Jean-Luc Godard ("Contempt," "A Woman Is a Woman," "Cleo From 5 to 7”), or his long partnership with Dino de Laurentiis.
No, what everybody remembers about Carlo Ponti, who died Tuesday night in a Geneva hospital at the age of 94, is that he was the short bald guy who married the most beautiful woman in the world, Sophia Loren.
So Ponti will go down in history as one of those guys, like Ric Ocasek marrying Paulina Porizkova or Lyle Lovett marrying (however briefly) Julia Roberts, who gave eternal hope to less-than-handsome men everywhere.
They won't talk about his collaborations with some of the great European directors, such as Federico Fellini ("La Strada"), Michelangelo Antonioni ("Blow-Up," "The Passenger"), Vittorio De Sica ("Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," "Marriage, Italian Style") and Jean-Luc Godard ("Contempt," "A Woman Is a Woman," "Cleo From 5 to 7”), or his long partnership with Dino de Laurentiis.
No, what everybody remembers about Carlo Ponti, who died Tuesday night in a Geneva hospital at the age of 94, is that he was the short bald guy who married the most beautiful woman in the world, Sophia Loren.
So Ponti will go down in history as one of those guys, like Ric Ocasek marrying Paulina Porizkova or Lyle Lovett marrying (however briefly) Julia Roberts, who gave eternal hope to less-than-handsome men everywhere.
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