Our Fair Lady 奥黛丽·赫本：永远的窈窕淑女.docVIP

Our Fair Lady 奥黛丽·赫本：永远的窈窕淑女 　　在银幕上，她是《罗马假日》里高贵可爱的公主，《蒂凡尼的早餐》中追逐名利的虚荣女子，《窈窕淑女》里身份卑微的卖花女，是好莱坞各路导演争相邀约的明星；在现实生活中，她被称为“落入人间的天使”，姣好的面容、优雅的气质，连同她对冥冥众生的悲悯情怀，征服了万千影迷。她就是影迷心中永远的窈窕淑女——奥黛丽·赫本。本文原文发表于1993年赫本去世后不久，在21年后的今天我们再来重温赫本曾经的一颦一笑，感怀斯人已逝，风采犹存。 　　most of our images of her came out of Africa where， as a shirtsleeved1） ambassador for UNICEF2）， she walked in a ravaged Somalia， giving solace with that radiant smile—and focusing the world’s attention on a starving land. Last September she asked to be taken to the famine’s epicenter， a feeding camp in the town of Baidoa. As she arrived， she saw hundreds of small lifeless bodies being loaded onto trucks. The worst of it， she would later say， eyes welling with tears， was “the terrible silence.” 　　Life was a brave journey for Audrey Hepburn. She was， after all， a woman who spent much of her girlhood in Nazi-occupied Holland， subsisting for a time on flour made from tulip bulbs. Along with her starving grandparents， she received food from a relief agency—UNICEF’s precursor. “Your soul is nourished by all your experiences，” she once said. “It gives you baggage for the future—and ammunition3）， if you like.” 　　Hepburn’s journey ended last Wednesday in Tolochenaz， Switzerland， where， at 63， she succumbed to the colon4） cancer that had been diagnosed just two months before. Death found her in a merciful setting： on a mild springlike night at her beloved 18th-century stone farmhouse on Lake Geneva. “She was able to make only one trip in the last days，” says journalist Henry Gris， one of her oldest friends. “She went out into the garden. It’s very gray this time of year， but she wanted to see her flowers.” At the end she was surrounded by those she cherished most， including her companion of 12 years， Robert Wolders， 55. “He was very dedicated to her，” says Gris. Also at Hepburn’s bedside were her sons， Sean Ferrer， 33， and Luca Dotti， 22， and her beloved Jack Russell terriers. 　　For a time last week， as people recalled the luminous i