- BEVERLY HILLS: It's a rare moment when Sophia Loren doesn't stand out, but this is one of them.
- The Italian actress is posing for photos on the stage at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where she will be honored Wednesday for her half-dozen decades in cinema.
She is head-to-toe in red, from the highlights in her hair to her boots to her Armani suit. She seems to melt into the red-curtain backdrop on the stage. But not completely. No amount of red can hide the smile, the voice, the incredible beauty.
"I love red, because I think it is very nice," she explains. "It says, 'Naples.' It's the vibrant life of Neapolitan people. It's the creative side of the Neapolitan people. It's life." Loren's personal and professional lives began in Rome, though, where she was born in 1934.