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Boris and Natasha. The gangster and his moll. The statuesque babe and the little round man. Beauty and Obese. That double image, like joke figures on a wedding cake, was the one struck by the great Italian actress Sophia Loren and her discoverer, mentor, curator and prime exhibiter, producer Carlo Ponti. They had been together since 1950 - when he was nearly 40, she just 15 - and they stayed that way through 56 years, two marriages to each other (the first annulled) and 37 movies that he sponsored and she appeared...
...obstacles: the rude public merriment at their pairing; all the misery the Vatican-cowed Italian government tried to bring to their joint political, financial and personal life; the stories of his infidelities and of the movie stars (Cary Grant, Peter Sellers) utterly smitten by her allure. Yet Ponti and Loren persevered, becoming a metaphor for the lasting attraction of opposites...
...Loren Amor contributed to the reporting of this story...
...cross of exoticism through a series of disappointing movies and tabloid-tracked relationships with Sexiest Man Alive--type guys. With Volver, she is prompting people to talk Oscar. If she nabs him, she will be the first actress to win one in a foreign-language film since Sophia Loren in 1961 for Two Women...
...Volver took Almodóvar six years to write. When he started, he envisioned Cruz in the smaller part of the daughter. As time passed, "I suddenly felt that I wanted something bigger," he says. "I thought, Why not make her the mother?" So Almodóvar gave his modern-day Loren a disheveled up-do, some thick black eyeliner, that butt and a feminine character who gets to range from fragile to furious. Cruz balances screwball humor and a little vulgarity (there are fart jokes) with a screen-goddess glamour that can't be faked. "Pedro says I have a dark...