Shane McMahon's Ass
09-28-2009, 05:37 AM
SCREEN legend Brigitte Bardot has marked her birthday with a call for her "splendid twin" Sophia Loren, who like her turned 75 this week, to give up fur once and for all.
Both the broody former French "sex kitten'' Bardot and the sultry Italian Loren took the prudish 1950s by storm, becoming icons of the sexual liberation that shook the Western world in the decades to come.
But Bardot abandoned her film career in 1973, aged just 39, becoming a reclusive animal rights crusader and making recent headlines for fiery comments about Islam that landed her in court.
Back in the public eye on her birthday and star of a Paris exhibition in her honour, Bardot sent her wishes to the voluptuous Loren, who turned 75 on September 20, but could not resist a chance to further her animal rights cause.
"I wish a happy birthday to Sophia Loren, my splendid twin, and I ask her to stop wearing fur - that is the best gift she could offer me,'' she said.
The screen icons crossed swords in the mid-1990s when Bardot wrote to Loren over ads in which she modelled fur coats, accusing her of "wearing a cemetery on your back''.
The Italian actress never responded.
Bardot also said she had no reason to regret her own role as a screen goddess and sexual liberation icon.
"I regret nothing,'' she said.
Half a century ago, Bardot's role as a "demon-driven temptress'' in the 1956 movie And God Created Woman caused a moral storm worldwide.
Both the broody former French "sex kitten'' Bardot and the sultry Italian Loren took the prudish 1950s by storm, becoming icons of the sexual liberation that shook the Western world in the decades to come.
But Bardot abandoned her film career in 1973, aged just 39, becoming a reclusive animal rights crusader and making recent headlines for fiery comments about Islam that landed her in court.
Back in the public eye on her birthday and star of a Paris exhibition in her honour, Bardot sent her wishes to the voluptuous Loren, who turned 75 on September 20, but could not resist a chance to further her animal rights cause.
"I wish a happy birthday to Sophia Loren, my splendid twin, and I ask her to stop wearing fur - that is the best gift she could offer me,'' she said.
The screen icons crossed swords in the mid-1990s when Bardot wrote to Loren over ads in which she modelled fur coats, accusing her of "wearing a cemetery on your back''.
The Italian actress never responded.
Bardot also said she had no reason to regret her own role as a screen goddess and sexual liberation icon.
"I regret nothing,'' she said.
Half a century ago, Bardot's role as a "demon-driven temptress'' in the 1956 movie And God Created Woman caused a moral storm worldwide.