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Contents 1 The description "former" sex symbol is inaccurate. Loren IS STILL a sex symbol 2 ethnicity 3 Miscellania 4 dates do not agree 5 How to say her name

[edit] The description "former" sex symbol is inaccurate. Loren IS STILL a sex symbol

Sophia Loren is still a sex symbol. Both because her name is iconic with beauty, much like Marilyn Monroe is still a sex symbol even though Monroe has been dead for more than 40 years.

Additionally one could also make the point that a beautiful woman at age 70 is still beautiful, at least to the older set.

For both reasons Loren ramains a sex symbol as well as being an actress of significant accomplishment.

75.166.168.165 20:20, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ethnicity

isn't her mother from somewhere in south america? i read it in IMAN's makeup book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.200.28.243 (talk) 19:51, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Sophia Loren is 100% Italian, PLEASE understand that! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.128.109.98 (talk) 01:51, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Sophia's mother is from near Napoli, about four miles away in Pozzuoli (where Sophia herself grew up). NOT South America. - Soprani 03:51, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Miscellania

Perhaps the sentence under 'Miscellania' that ends with the verb 'ape' could be rewritten such that A) a different, more flattering/appropriate verb could be used, and B) the sentence does not end in an infinitive.

128.135.67.46 07:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

You could try imitate, replicate, duplicate, emulate... Orbicle 11:24, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Someone should mention the passing of her husband today....12:32, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I changed ape to emulate. Why is there a NPOV tag?

I agree. Unless 68.164.177.18 would show cause why the {{POV}} tag should not be removed, I am going ahead and remove that. RashBold (talk • contribs • count) 17:48, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

I’ve removed it: no case was made for alleged bias. —Ian Spackman (talk) 12:37, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] dates do not agree

Carlo Ponti's wiki page and Sophia Loren's page have two different dates for his death. One says Jan. 9th and the other says Jan. 10th. Just thought I'd point that out. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.237.143.232 (talk) 00:12, 14 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] How to say her name

Terribly minor, really, but we might as well attain a consensus if we can. I’m moving here for expert discussion this edit:

(pronounced la-WREN)

In English I am not quite happpy about the ‘la’ bit. It seems to me that the commonest pronunciation of the vowel is that very vague English ugggghhhh sound. But in Italian I think that not only the vowels (as you would expect) are different, but that the stresses are different in both words. Namely, in each case, the penultimate syllable is the stressed one. Perhaps if we need to go into the pronunciation we shoud be a little precise. Or not? —Ian Spackman 00:03, 18 March 2007 (UTC)