IS IT JUST MY IMAGINATION...

If I might be permitted a not-exactly-prurient diversion on a rainy Saturday night...

I just saw the cover of the latest issue of Elle magazine while I was buying some laundry detergent this afternoon, and suddenly this evolutionary line of great beauties of the movies formed in my express-lane consciousness. With apologies to Claudia Cardinale, who I once listed as the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen in a movie, based on her appearance in Once Upon A Time in the West, follow along with me for a moment for a brief visual presentation, if you would...

Is it so hard to imagine the Great Production Designer drawing a line from this lovely woman...


Sophia Loren in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow