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Letter from the Editor: April '06.
Line in the Sand
P
lease don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them." Anna Magnani, the Italian actress, said this to a photographer in the late 1950s, instructing him to show her face as it truly was.
Onscreen and in life, Magnani was a raw, earthy beauty; the film critic Pauline Kael called her "the most 'real' of actresses." It's hard to imagine any star today who would refuse retouching, or anyone at all who'd want to look quite that real. Even my picture on this page is thoroughly worked over every month by Pascal Dangin, the master retoucher at Box.
Although I don't share Magnani's forthright attitude, I do admire it. I would probably be a better person if I saw my crow's-feet and wrinkles as badges of honor, as evidence of a life well-lived. But I don't, because they aren't.
My lines are the consequence of pure foolishness. They are the errors of spring breaks and summers at the beach when I tried to bake my fish-belly-white skin, marinating it with Bain de Soleil SPF 0 until it was as red as a ...
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