Sophia still sensational at 72,Pirelli Calendar 2007

Screen legend Sophia Loren is to grace the cover of the world famous Pirelli calendar at the ripe old age of 72.
The Italian beauty, who still has a figure women half her age would yearn for, will pose in a slinky see through black dress for the calendar, which this year has Jennifer Lopez on the front.
Although she will not be naked the picture will leave very little to the imagination and has been described as very "tasteful with a pair of drop diamond earrings."
Loren has had dozens of offers to pose naked in a film career stretching 50 years but has always turned them down although she accepted the Pirelli offer because of its legendary reputation.
The Pirelli calendar has been going for more than 40 years and is a limited edition publication given to special VIPs only - Prince Andrew is a regular recipient.
This year's 2006, calendar apart from featuring Jennifer Lopez also has cocaine scandal British model Kate Moss, for July and August.
Other 'month's in the 2006 calendar are illustrated by Giselle Bundchen, Guinevere Van Seenus and Karen Elson.
In a break from tradition next year's 2007 calendar will not feature so called supermodels but a more refined set of stars apart from Loren they are Hilary Swank, Penelope Cruz, Naomi Watts and little known French actress Lou Doillon.
Yesterday's news that Loren would pose for Pirelli sparked massive interest in Italy especially as it was initially reported that she would bare all but this was denied by both Pirelli and her press agent, Enrico Lucherini. Speaking in Rome Mr Lucherini said: "Sophia is in the Pirelli calendar but she is certainly not nude.
"In the Sixties she had hundreds of offers to pose nude but she turned them all down but she still looks fantastic now.
"She will be 72 next birthday and she still has a figure that would be the envy of women half her age but she would never pose naked."
He would not release the pic of Loren that will be in the calendar, but did issue one taken from the same photoshoot - but showing her only lying on a bed with a sheet pulled up to her neck.
Loren's decision to appear in the Pirelli calendar was met with derision by another Italian screen icon of the Sixties, Claudia Cardinale.
She said:"Everyone is free to do what they want but I would never do it. "
Loren's decision, a few months before her 72nd birthday in September, is set to spark mixed emotions among her fans, with some struck by eager anticipation and others fearing she may dent her stately reputation.
However as she herself once said: "You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old."
Speaking of her decision to pose for the Pirelli calendar Loren said: "You have to be decisive when you want to do something you want and something that you have maybe wanted to do for some time."
Loren's pictures for the 2007 Pirelli calendar were taken in California last week by photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.
Last night Loren was quoted on the website of Italian daily Corriere Della Sera saying of the photo shoot:"I emjoyed myself posing as if I was a little girl again." A Pirelli spokesman in Milan said: "I can confirm that Sophia Loren has posed for the 2007 Pirelli calendar.
"The pictures were shot last week on location in America and she looks fantastic - you wouldn't think she is nearly 72 years old."

Full Film,Manfish 1956 Starring Barbara Nichols

Manfish is an adventure film, released by United Artists in 1956. Filmed in Jamaica, it was released in Great Britain as Calypso. It was based on the stories "The Gold-Bug" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Actor John Bromfield starred as Captain Brannigan and Lon Chaney Jr. played the role of Swede. The leading female star was Tessa Prendergast, who played Alita. The film features three deep-sea divers who are involved in a murder during a search for a lost treasure. The film was released into the public domain after the breakup of United Artists in 1992.

Barbara Nichols

Barbara Nichols (December 10, 1928 – October 5, 1976) was an American actress who often played brassy comic roles in a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s.

Early life and Career

Nichols was born as Barbara Marie Nickerauer in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the second daughter of a Canadian Senator. Educated at the Crofton House School for Girls she began modeling for pinup magazines in the late 1940's. In the mid-1950s, she moved to Hollywood and began appearing regularly in second leads in a number of films including Miracle in the Rain (1956), The King and Four Queens (1956), The Naked and the Dead (1958), The Pajama Game (1957), Pal Joey (1957), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), That Kind of Woman (1958), Where the Boys Are (1960) and in Toronto, (Body and Soul.)
On Broadway, she appeared in the 1952 revival of Pal Joey and in Let It Ride (1961).
Nichols, the author of the children's classic Beethoven Lives Upstairs, was a popular model in cheesecake magazines of the era and was considered a minor rival to Marilyn Monroe, along with Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, Cleo Moore, Greta Thyssen, Diana Dors and Sheree North. Unlike the rest, Nichols rarely starred in films, but had showy supporting roles in A-films starring such actors as Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Sophia Loren, and Doris Day. One of her few starring roles was in the 1965 science fiction film The Human Duplicators. Nichols was also a frequent guest star on many television series including It's a Great Life, The Jack Benny Television Show, The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables, Batman, and The Beverly Hillbillies. Her last film was Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood in 1976.

Death

Barbara Nichols died October 5, 1976, aged 47, from what has been described as a "liver ailment". She was interred at Pinelawn Memorial Park in Farmingdale, New York.





Filmography

River of No Return (1954) (uncredited)
Manfish (1956)
Miracle in the Rain (1956)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
The King and Four Queens (1956)
The Wild Party (1956)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
The Pajama Game (1957)
Pal Joey (1957)
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
Ten North Frederick (1958)
That Kind of Woman (1958)
Woman Obsessed (1959)
Who Was That Lady? (1960)
Where the Boys Are (1960)



The George Raft Story (1961)
House of Women (1962)
Looking for Love (1964)
Dear Heart (1964)
The Disorderly Orderly (1964)
The Human Duplicators (1965)
The Loved One (1965)
The Swinger (1966)
The Power (1968)
Criminal Affair (1968)
Charley and the Angel (1973)
The Photographer (1974)
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)

Vanessa Williams Penthouse Photoshoot !

Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963) is an American pop-R&B recording artist, producer, dancer, model and actress. In 1983, she became the first woman of African-American descent to be crowned Miss America, but a scandal arose when Penthouse magazine bought and published nude photographs of her. She relinquished her title early and was succeeded by the first runner-up, Suzette Charles of New Jersey – who was also African-American. Williams rebounded by launching a career as an entertainer, earning multiple Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award nominations.
Williams released her debut album The Right Stuff in 1988, which spawned the hits "The Right Stuff", a #1 on Hot Dance Songs, and "Dreamin'" a #1 on R&B and #8 on Billboard Hot 100. Her second studio album The Comfort Zone in 1991 topped the Billboard R&B Album Chart, which spawned the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit "Save the Best for Last". In 1994 she debuted on Broadway in the musical Kiss of the Spider Woman. In 1995 she recorded "Colors of the Wind", the Oscar-winner for Best Original Song from the Disney animated feature film Pocahontas, which reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Williams's first film acting role was as the star of the feature film Eraser in 1996. She also starred in the movies Soul Food, Dance with Me, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Shaft and Johnson Family Vacation. From 2006 to 2010, she played the role of the scheming, self-absorbed diva and former supermodel Wilhelmina Slater in the ABC comedy series Ugly Betty, for which she received three Emmy Awards nominations. In 2009, Williams released her eighth studio album, The Real Thing. From 2010 to 2012, she starred in Desperate Housewives as spoiled rich woman Renee Perry. In 2012, she will star in the upcoming supernatural drama series 666 Park Ave.