Anouk Aimée Against the Wall", 1958). Besides the French cinema, Aimée's career include a number of films made in Spain, Great Britain, Italy and Germany. She achieved worldwide attention in Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (the Good Life, 1960) and "Lola" (1961). She appeared again in Fellini's "8½", and would remain in Italy during the first half of the 1960s, making films for a number of Italian directors. Because of her role in "La Dolce Vita", biographer Dave Thompson describes Aimée as a "rising star who exploded" onto the film world. He adds that singer-songwriter Patti Smith, who in her teens saw the
NG La Banda international tourism, timba became the mainstay of night entertainment and the sound-track of the new tourist dolce vita—Perna (2005) NG La Banda NG La Banda is a Cuban musical group founded by flutist José Luis "El Tosco" Cortés. NG stands for "nueva generación" ('next generation'). NG La Banda are the creators of "timba" (a term coined by Cortés), the most important popular dance and music genre of the past two decades. Prior to founding NG La Banda, Cortés played in the Afro-Cuban jazz-fusion supergroup Irakere, and the seminal songo band Los Van Van. Before leaving Irakere, El Tosco had begun