20 Cool Things About Sophia Loren

1) It's not every actress that men are afraid to star alongside because she's taller than they are.

2) To prove that she was the equal of every other big star in Hollywood, Sophia didn't get along with Marlon Brando. Good for her.

3) As soon as she walks into a room, everyone in it immediately starts speaking Italian. It just happens.

4) As someone who does her own hair and nails, she sure does a terrific job.

5) If you own a makeup, perfume or dress company, all you need is Sophia as your spokeswoman...the marketing campaign writes itself!

6) She's the best thing that "emerging out of the water with your clothes clinging to you" ever happened to.

7) For one brief moment at the Oscars, just by announcing his name, she made Roberto Benigni cool.

8) She's Drew Barrymore's godmother, for crying out loud!

9) Peter Sellers wouldn't have had a singing career without her.

10) Every "World's Sexiest" list - even before it's written - gets her name in it by default.

11) Though often called The Italian Marilyn Monroe, she's never dyed her hair blonde.

12) For someone whose nickname growing up was "Toothpick", she turned out gooooood.

13) Even in the movie Desire Under the Elms, she made Burl Ives provocative by association.

14) Hall and Oates sang about her. So did Bob Dylan. And her career wasn't hurt by it in the least.

15) She played herself and her own mother in her own life story. Try that, Megan Fox!

16) Never worked with Pauly Shore. Never will.

17) She makes tax evasion sexy.

18) Tyrone Power. Marcello Mastroianni. Cary Grant. Walter Matthau. She's seduced ALL of Hollywood's hunks!

19) This woman will be hot when she's 100.

20) She owes her body to pasta. Eat up!

Dope out.

- TGWD