Wardrobe malfunction?
Jennifer Lopez – “Feeling Good”
I couldn’t resist this headline: “Jennifer Lopez says she’s happy” – with a quick summary that took me to a longer article reporting that JLo says she “feels good.” Hey, I didn’t write it, and I don’t believe it. Do you? But I clicked on the article all the same, and then I read, and […]
JLo? Really?
Celebrity divorce news is hardly news. It seems that so-called Hollywood power couples jump in and out of marriages (and engagements, for that matter) the way most of us switch diets. The most recent split to catch my eye? Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony of course, announced earlier this week. Somehow this marital meltdown seems […]
Losing Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor – screen legend, world-renowned beauty, Oscar-winning actress – has passed away. She died today, of congestive heart failure, at the age of 79. Like most who recall her in Butterfield 8 or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, we think of her exquisite face and voluptuous body, her smoldering sexuality that heightened extraordinary […]
Momentary Musings on Lee Remick, Betty Draper, Beauty, and Intimacy
Cool blondes. Very Hitchcock. Last evening I was zapping around on cable and came across 1968’s The Detective, with Frank Sinatra and Lee Remick. I had forgotten the blue of Sinatra’s eyes, and more mesmerizing – Lee Remick, with her girl-next-door appeal, her reserve, and the smoldering sexuality just beneath. I thought immediately of Mad […]
Real Housewives, Real Adults, Real Friends?
I’ll fess up. I spent three hours the other night (happily) watching Bravo TV. Yep, those Housewives again. Embarrassing Behaviors First I watched the Real Housewives of Orange County (the Reunion Show, in two parts). Then I watched the newest episode of Real Housewives of New York. Twice. Okay, make that four hours of Reality […]