Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When a torrid billet-doux she once wrote to Dr. Christiaan Barnard hit the Italian papers, Gina Lollobrigida filed a loud complaint. La Lollo explained that she had written the scorcher in English, hardly her best language; it had then been translated into German by Quick magazine and finally put back into her native tongue by the Italian press. The result, she said, was something less than accurate. Whatever the message, Gina is suing both Barnard and his exwife, who published the letter in her memoirs. She loved the surgeon once, Gina confesses, but left him because...