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  • Sophia Loren Explains Why Jayne Mansfield’s Nipples Caused the Side-Eye Picture

    In 1957, Sophia Loren gave Jayne Mansfield a serious judgmental side-eye. A picture of that incident became almost as iconic as the two women.

    Loren reveals a lot about her life in her memoirs, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life, which was just released this Tuesday. To help promote the book, and her AFI Fest tribute, she spoke to Entertainment Weekly.

    Entertainment Weekly did a phone interview with Loren from her Switzerland home. The photo was among the topics of discussion.

    Loren revealed that a party was thrown to welcome her to Hollywood. Loren, then 22-years-old, had just starred in The Pride and the Passions. This film was one of the Italian beauty’s first American movies.

    She told EW that, “Paramount had organized a party for me. All of cinema was there, it was incredible. And then comes in Jayne Mansfield, the last one to come. For me, that was when it got amazing,” said Loren.

    Loren continued by saying, “She [Mansfield] came right for my table. She knew everyone was watching. She sat down. And now, she was barely… Listen. Look at the picture. Where are my eyes? I’m staring at her nipples because I am afraid they are about to come onto my plate. In my face you can see the fear. I’m so frightened that everything in her dress is going to blow—BOOM!—and spill all over the table.” EW also asked Loren about the other pictures showing them laughing and having fun. She dismissed those photos and said, “This is the one that shows how it was. This is the only picture.”


    The American Film Institute honors Loren at the AFI Fest in Hollywood on November 12.

  • Pics Of Ariana Grande Said To Share A Bizarre Pattern

    If you look at enough pictures of singer Ariana Grande, you may notice something a bit strange.

    Like the fact that more often than not, you are looking at the left side of the singer’s face.

    It’s not so unusual to be more likely to see certain angles of celebrities in photo shoots than others.

    The celeb’s features are often played up in an effort to make him or her look their best, with heavy photoshopping taking care of any perceived flaws.

    Of course, in an age where heavily photoshopped celebrity pictures are the norm, one has to wonder why there’s so much emphasis on one side of the 21-year-old singer’s face.

    Well the supposed answer to the left-side-of-face question may surprise you.

    Allegedly Grande is sensitive to being photographed in a certain way because one side of her face has a cute little dimple and the other side has no dimple whatsoever.

    That’s basically it.

    While this supposed demand (Grande denies this and other recent accusations) may seem like a bit much, there is some science that backs up the desire to be viewed from the left.

    Apparently when looking at an individual, humans tend to prefer the left side of their face. It’s somehow seen as “more pleasant”.

    While it’s hard to say whether or not Grande’s hitting us hard with the left side of her face was based on previous scientific research, it must be said that in the end it’s really not THAT big a deal.

    Grande recently responded to the many rumors about her via Twitter, declaring the diva accusations to be outright lies.

    Said Grande, “[M]an some of these rumors that have been coming out about me lately actually have me laughing out loud.”

    She instead encouraged fans and others to focus more on giving love than giving into hate.

    Interestingly enough, nothing was said about the right side of her face.

  • The Reverse Beer Goggles Effect: From Hot to Troll

    Just plain interesting. An undergraduate student working on some research discovered a strange tendency in the way our eyes process images when our focus is trained on the center of two images. It appears the two hemispheres of our brain transpose some of the information and distort what appears in our peripherals. It is what I am calling the “reverse beer goggles effect”.

    Here’s how Matthew Thompson, the publisher of the finding, describes what he calls, the “Flashed Face Distortion Effect”:

    Like many interesting scientific discoveries, this one was an accident. Sean Murphy, an undergraduate student, was working alone in the lab on a set of faces for one of his experiments. He aligned a set of faces at the eyes and started to skim through them. After a few seconds, he noticed that some of the faces began to appear highly deformed and grotesque. He looked at the especially ugly faces individually, but each of them appeared normal or even attractive. We called it the “Flashed Face Distortion Effect” and wanted to share it with the world, so we put it on YouTube.

    The effect seems to depend on processing each face in light of the others. By aligning the faces at the eyes and presenting them quickly, it becomes much easier to compare them, so the differences between the faces are more extreme. If someone has a large jaw, it looks almost ogre-like. If they have an especially large forehead, then it looks particularly bulbous. We’re conducting several experiments right now to figure out exactly what’s causing this effect, so watch this space!

    Take a look: