Acclaimed Italian director Franco Zeffirelli dead at 96

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Legendary Italian theater, opera and film director Franco Zeffirelli died on Saturday at the age of 96. CNN reports Zeffirelli's 1968 adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" earned him an Oscar nomination, while his film "The Taming of the Shrew," starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, endures one of the 20th century's most celebrated retellings of a Shakespearean comedy.

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