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...green lights control traffic at the entrance. Just inside, visitors find an aquarium full of goldfish. Farther along, a 1922 Greta Garbo film flickers continually in a twelve-seat cinema. Throughout the corpus, the clanking of various mechanical fantasies mingles with the solemn reverberation of Bach's organ music. "Women love it. They seem to understand immediately that it's a homage to them," says Niki. And very best of all, even the psychiatrists seem to approve. Said one: "It will affect the dreams of the Swedes who see it for years to come...
...lovely when Greta Garbo resurrected her onscreen, prowling around in trousers with John Gilbert in 1933's Queen Christina. Still, the myth persisted that besides being wanton and mannish, Sweden's baroque queen was plain ugly. A catty tale. Archaeologists opened the marble tomb in the Vatican grotto where she was buried in 1689, discovered the silver death mask of a handsome woman who might have played the Garbo part herself...
...press was not to be deterred by the girl it dubbed "the Greta Garbo of the North Woods." A hearty band of four reporters and photographers from the Milwaukee Sentinel and Minneapolis Tribune set off on her trail. "We figured not even the White House could keep us off public waters and lakes," said Sentinel Reporter Toni McBride. Piling supplies and cameras into two canoes equipped with outboard motors, the press party occasionally edged close enough to Lynda to snap a picture or two but not close enough to chat. In the process of making eleven portages, the reporters lost...
...precedent is always useful in court, so Gina Lollobrigida, 36, was saying: "The theater has always been full of daring performers since Grecian times -even the great Greta Gar bo, who undressed much more than today's actresses without creating a scandal." La Lollo was in a Roman court on charges of "outraging the public morals" by appearing apparently nude behind a bed sheet in Le Bambole (The Dolls). This was silly, said she, loftily. No great actress tries to create a scandal. "Even a spicy part can be done seriously." And besides, she cooed to the judge...
...placed lisp. Sensation seekers lured by its title will find The Love Goddesses a disappointment. But movie buffs will happily sit through Harlow, Hayworth, Turner, Monroe, Taylor, Loren and Bardot to see tempestuous Pola Negri taking a whip to small-town prudes (Woman of the World, 1925); a giddy Greta Garbo clomping around in a tank suit for her first Swedish film (Peter the Tramp, 1922); and durable Claudette Colbert sharing her milk bath with two thirsty black cats (DeMille's Sign of the Cross, 1932) in what must be the only known instance of a striptease accomplished swallow...