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...rest is greenhouses, olive groves, tennis courts, a trotting course, a farm-produce center with chickens, pigs, goats and sheep. At the bottom of the garden, Ponti is constructing a small monastery for Jesuits...
...this, I'm that. Basta. I feel married, and lots of married people don't feel married." Ponti is a major figure in the Italian cinema in his own right. He has produced hundreds of films, including Gold of Naples, La Strada and War and Peace. It is sometimes barbarously pointed out that he is twice as old as she is and half as tall...
...Carlo frankly, "Neapolitan gaiety and artistic sense, and Milanese sense of proportion and balance, which she learned from me." For the rest, they are silent. "The one who loves very much," Sophia tells the endless strangers who ask for The Real Truth, "talks little about it." People say that Ponti serves as an image of the father she never had, but she treats him as if he were her own little boy. They say he is her Svengali, but at most he is only a part-time Svengali, being chiefly concerned with minding their considerable enterprises...
Pocket Aqueducts. Last year she and Ponti acquired a chalet in Bürgenstock overlooking Lake Lucerne, partly to establish themselves as residents of Switzerland in order to sidestep Italy's haphazard tax code. They keep an immense apartment in Rome. They have also bought and are refashioning a 16th century villa eleven miles southeast of the city. It is on 18 acres and has 50 rooms. Before they are through, it will cost them $2,000,000. The place sits on catacombs that will become the world's weirdest wine cellar. Sophia and Carlo will each have...
...reducing tablets to help keep her measurements from becoming 38-38-38. She loves spaghetti with meat and tomato sauce, hot peppers, and grapes. "It still seems an occasion to eat meat," she says, and her childhood hunger now turns up in her terms of endearment. She calls Carlo Ponti her "Melanzana Parmigiana," her little eggplant...