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Gina Lollobrigida and the changing face of fame

Her censorship of Orson Welles is a story from a lost world

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James Snell

James Snell is a senior advisor for special initiatives at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy. His upcoming book, Defeat, about the failure of the war in Afghanistan and the future of terrorism, will be published by Gibson Square next year.

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