Cartier earrings ($7,450), Cartier high jewelry bracelet, by appointment only at select Cartier boutiques nationwide, Fendi coat ($17,500). Saulo Villela for Adrienne Landau boa headpiece ($195), special order on. “That’s my badge for the day,” she tells me, “when something amuses me or affords me the opportunity to tell people to shut the fuck up.” Flashing the same mischievous smile that graced the cover of Life magazine in 1954 that I spy behind her, Rosita Dolores Alverio, from Juncos, Puerto Rico, I realize, is having the last laugh. She, on the other hand, looks regal, at home in Berkeley, California, rocking a crown of silver curls and a tasteful cream cardigan fastened with a button that could be the mantra of a lifetime but isn’t. But that’s not her style, and they’re all dead.
She could whine about the usual “isms” she has overcome in an industry that hasn’t always appreciated her, and the heartache from those famous former lovers who never truly got her, the Marlon Brandos and the Elvis Presleys and the Dennis Hoppers. She could whine about the Oscar nominations she didn’t get. She could whine about her “100-year-old” knees. “No whining,” reads the pin Rita Moreno wears when we meet.Īt 90, she has every right to.
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