La Dolce Ekberg

La Dolce EkbergWhen Anita Ekberg, she of the flowing flaxen mane and the overflowing Nordic frame, set the tone for Federico Fellini's esoteric epic La Dolce Vita with a gown-popping Roman rock-'n'-roll fertility rite, she might have been starring in a rerun of This is Your Life. It was a stroke of pure artistic and financial genius worthy of the Medicis that had Fellini cast La Ekberg as the child-of-nature American movie star who soaks up Rome's high-level hanky-panky. Several scenes in La Dol...