{"id":6856,"date":"2011-01-16T03:27:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T11:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=6856"},"modified":"2011-01-16T03:27:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T11:27:04","slug":"before-angelina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/before-angelina\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Angelina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/claudia-c-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6858\" title=\"claudia c 2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/claudia-c-2.jpg?resize=480%2C491\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/claudia-c-2.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/claudia-c-2.jpg?resize=293%2C300&amp;ssl=1 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before there was Angelina Jolie, there was <strong>Claudia Cardinale<\/strong>.&nbsp;\u00a0 She reminds me of Angelina, but Claudia is earthier, more sensual, more European. Less otherworldly but so much sexier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Claudia-Cardinale-miroir.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6859\" title=\"Claudia-Cardinale-miroir\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Claudia-Cardinale-miroir.jpg?resize=479%2C492\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Claudia-Cardinale-miroir.jpg?w=479&amp;ssl=1 479w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Claudia-Cardinale-miroir.jpg?resize=292%2C300&amp;ssl=1 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I first saw her in the <strong>Pink Panther<\/strong> when I was a little kid, and I was mesmerized by her. (So was my dad, who pointed out her attributes.)<\/p>\n<p>I think Angelina comes closest to the old ideal of movie star beauty.&nbsp;\u00a0 Who else is there that will linger in the memories of today&#8217;s young moviegoers like Brigitte Bardo, Vivian Leigh, Sophia Loren, or Ava Gardner?<\/p>\n<p>Are film stars less strikingly beautiful, or just less conventionally attractive?&nbsp;\u00a0 Is the old&nbsp;\u00a0 kind of beauty extinct?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your opinion? And who are your candidates for passing the test of time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before there was Angelina Jolie, there was Claudia Cardinale.&nbsp;\u00a0 She reminds me of Angelina, but Claudia is earthier, more sensual, more European. Less otherworldly but so much sexier. I first saw her in the Pink Panther when I was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/before-angelina\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[288,932,931],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-1MA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}