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4 unusual facts about Ernesto Barba


Ernesto Barba

He easily got Anne Parillaud, the young “Brooke Shields” of Paris (who later won the French Oscar for her lead role in Nikita) to come instead.

In this spirit, he retained Japanese pop artist Tadanori Yokoo to design the interiors of one important restaurant in the Ritz Taipei.

He had some distractions, however, left over from the defeat of Italian fascism at the end of World War II, and in the 1970s he became a senior follower of the Indian spiritual group called the Ananda Marga, whose leader Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar was unjustly imprisoned with a false accusation (and then later cleared of charges).

At the time, she was 19 and was considered the new Brigitte Bardot.



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