Carlo Rambaldi: Southern Italy

Steven Spielberg Dept: Rambaldi died Friday in southern Italy after a long illness, Italian news media reported. He had been living for about a decade in the Calabrian city of Lamezia Terme, according to CBC. "Carlo Rambaldi was E.T.'s Geppetto," said the film's director, Steven Spielberg, referencing the fictional creator of the puppet Pinocchio and carlo Rambaldi, the special effects master who created E.T., as well as the titular character of Ridley Scott s Alien, has died. He was 86. Rambaldi was a three-time Oscar-winner for special effects: for his work on E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial , John Guillermin's 1976 film King Kong and Alien. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.