Spaghetti Western Movie Composer Ennio Morricone Dead at 91
(WorldNews Greece)

ROME — Oscar-winning Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and often haunting soundtracks for such classic Hollywood gangster movies as "The Untouchables" and the epic "Once Upon A Time In America," died on Monday. He was 91. Morricone's longtime lawyer and friend, Giorgio Assumma, said the Maestro, as he was known, died in a Rome hospital of complications following a recent fall in which he broke a leg. During a career that spanned decades and earned him an Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2007, Morricone collaborated with some of Hollywood's and...