Word: lorene
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...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...
Penélope Cruz has arrived at the top, thanks, in part, to a bottom. The actress wears the plenteous prosthetic posterior under her 1950s Sophia Loren--inspired straight skirts and clingy cardigans in Pedro Almodóvar's new film, Volver. "Mothers have beeg bottoms," the Spanish director of culturally charged films says in accented English as he sprawls on a sofa next to Cruz in his suite at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles. "Your curves here are natural," he says to her, cupping his hands on his chest, "but not here," he says, pointing to his seat...
...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...
...served in as of the women - war brides and whore-brides - they had encountered. So to add a touch of exotica or erotica to their movies, American producers imported actresses from France (Corinne Calvet, Francoise Rosay), Austria (Maria Schell), Japan (Miyoshi Umeki) and especially Italy (Alida Valli, Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano ... and the twins: Pier Angeli and Marisa Pavan). These actresses and others gave an appealing face, and body, to foreign films, which had then what most of them lack now: star quality...