“Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti.” — Sophia Loren. Or maybe not.
It’s an open question whether the Oscar-winning actress, at 90 one of the last surviving legends of Hollywood’s Golden Age, when movie stars were movie stars, ever said these words about her famously lush figure. The quote appears in a 1961 Life magazine article, but Loren told The New York Times in 2015 she never said the words.
But does it really matter?
Certainly, whatever the truth of the quote, the oversize image of Loren, mouth open, about to eat a twirled forkful of spaghetti, is no less glamorous as it commands the dining room at the new…