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rmLovely piece in the NYTimes on a new book about Valentino -- http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/books/review/11GEWENT.html who of course interests me as anyone who can be said to have been self-invented tends to, although it occurs that perhaps that is what we say about anyone who succeeds in a way that forces others to bend their expectations -- whether that was the intent or not.
Valentino was someone my parents told me about as a child, in response to my fascination with the song Puttin' on the Ritz (I took tap when I was little, okay? And then there was that hideous 80s hit by Taco). I remember they told me that women loved him, that he was Italian, that his eyes were dangerous and that he had those strange dogs.
Valentino was someone my parents told me about as a child, in response to my fascination with the song Puttin' on the Ritz (I took tap when I was little, okay? And then there was that hideous 80s hit by Taco). I remember they told me that women loved him, that he was Italian, that his eyes were dangerous and that he had those strange dogs.
