Gina Lollobrigida
Gina Lollobrigida, 67, had no intention of becoming the international star of such movies as Beautiful But Dangerous (1955) and Trapeze (1956). ''I am a painter and a sculptor, and by chance I did movies,'' says La Lollo, as she was known in her sexpot heyday. Now, Lollobrigida has produced her artistic magnum opus: The Wonder of Innocence (Abrams, $29.95), which contains over 150 photomontages of children and animals from around the world, culled from some 300 pictures that the actress snapped over the last 14 years. ''When I am with a camera, I'm like in a trance,'' says Lollobrigida. ''I actually use the camera like a paintbrush. I did the book because I was in need of express(ing) my fantasy, and I thought to do children and animals was so amusing, so poetic-it was like Walt Disney.'' Accompanying the images are apposite quotes from thinkers throughout the ages: Confucius, Shakespeare, Shaw, Lollobrigida. ''Some are very f...