Sophia Loren has been presented with an honorary citizenship in her of Pozzuoli (near Naples), Italy. The seventy-year-old beauty returned 'home' for the first time in twenty-two years to receive a school photograph from the 1948-49 school year from her classmates, with the then-teenage actress posing with a book under her arm.
Loren said, "I remember the difficult period of the war, the hours we passed in the railway tunnels to flee the bombings. Thank you, thank you, I don't know if I deserve it."
The Oscar-winner was raised in poverty in Pozzuoli and was forced to flee the town with her family to live in Naples during World War II. Antonio Bassolino, governor of the Campania region, enthuses, "She's Neapolitan, she's never given up her family and her contact with daily life."
Saving the Tigers from extinction It was a hurriedly organized citizen’s meeting at Guwahati Press Club, where serious concerns were expressed at the increasing trend of poaching and killing of wildlife in various parts of Assam.
The EIP factor - what you should learn from it When we grow older, or get older for the sake of the argument, we tend to start seeing the world only from one side. We tend to believe, no, not believe but know, how things are done. If you are smart, you understand that it shouldn't be that way, you understand this is wrong.
OneWhoKnowsTheTruth says on 2006-05-03 10:03:47 about Once a whore, always a whore!
We Italians know this story very well and many of Loren's fellow-countrymen think she was doing porn and prostituting herself before, and her notorious respectable "Family-mom-style" it's a fake.
All Loren's fellow-countrymen are well informed that BEFORE BECOMING A STAR, SOFIA VILLANI SCICOLONE/LAZZARO WAS FAMOUS AMONGST ROME PROSTITUTES' JOHNS AS A, SAY, 'ORAL SPECIALIST'. AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT ROMAN GRANDADS CLAIM. ACTUALLY, ROMAN PEOPLE SUFFERED FROM HUNGER AFTER THE WORLD WAR 2 AND MANY GIRLS COULDN'T FIND ANYMEAN TO FILL THEIR STOMACHS OTHER THAN PROSTITUTING THEMSELVES. IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE CASE OF LA LOREN. I'VE GOT THIS CONFIDENCE FROM A FRIEND OF MINE WHO IS AN OLD TIMES ACTOR'S BROTHER ( DO YOU REMEMBER THAT GUY IN "YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW" WHO PLAYED THE ROLE OF THE KID WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH PROSTITUTE SOPHIA BUT HAD TO GIVE UP FOR BECOMING A PRIEST? ).
Whether we want to admit it or not, even now, in year 2012, there are still big gender biases in some fields of life. While it's generally understandable that men should do more heavy lifting than women and knitting fits a bit better for the women (even though I am aware even here there are many people who want to disagree), art is one of those things where our gender really should not play any significant role at all. And within the past decade things have started to change even on this front and even on the more conservative arenas such as Bukowskis - the top Nordic auction house.
