Members remos Posted October 26, 2010 Members Share Posted October 26, 2010 Oh, I don't know what she's done to herself since, but a decade ago she hadn't done anything else to her belly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members remos Posted October 26, 2010 Members Share Posted October 26, 2010 Mysticism is very attractive when your life is pretty superficial. Every religion has something along those lines. Eat Pray Love wouldn't have been such a hit if it hadn't touched on this exact issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted October 26, 2010 Members Share Posted October 26, 2010 Kabbalah is interesting, but what Madonna and Demi are practicing can't be called such. And I think many scholars over the years called them out on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted October 26, 2010 Author Members Share Posted October 26, 2010 Cat, perfect summation of Jennifer Aniston. Aniston is one of those actresses who bitches and moans about photographers and tabloids, all while having Kevin Huvane and her PR flacks plant stories about her left and right, hers is an image that has taken decades to sculpt and Aniston will be damned if it changes. Unfortunately for Ms Aniston, all of the spin she's generated around herself since her marriage to Brad Pitt hasn't served her career the way it could have (a la Nicole Kidman), instead, her films have flopped, her image has floundered and her looks, whatever she had of them, are fading and she's becoming irrelevant in a town that has little pity. Her America's Sweetheart image has been eclipsed and her star is dimming from view. Joan Collins stands by her words and isn't apologizing. She uttered her opinion, it's her legal right to do so. Unlike many, she's owning what she said. Vulgar and uncouth, certainly. Tasteless, tacky, classless? Sure. Does Joan Collins care about being any of those things? No, she doesn't. If she did, she'd be back peddling with the best of them, shrinking from view, offering apologies...none of which she's doing. And why should she relax and retire? She's still enjoying herself, still having fun, still alive. Everyone puts on a facade, it's the nature of the business. And I feel the way you do Carl, Joan's made a career on her appeal, she's 77 and still, mildly, relevant. If she wasn't, her comments wouldn't have been a blip on the radar screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cat Posted October 26, 2010 Members Share Posted October 26, 2010 I can do nothing but bow down at the sentiment expressed in this post! There is a line between fixing something that makes you feel self-conscious, and conforming to impossible standards of youth and so-called beauty. When I think of my grandmother, I don't think of her age but the fact that she had the softest, most velvety skin I have ever touched. If she'd been stretched and pulled and botoxed and acid-peeled to within an inch of her life, she would have become... untouchable. Frozen. About Demi, though: she may not have had her stretchmarks done. But she's had something done. Something that allows her features to move. Because damn. She looks better now than she did 15 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members remos Posted October 26, 2010 Members Share Posted October 26, 2010 I'm not surprised. When it comes to faith there is still that basic human desire to be in control of the Uncontrollable - we humans really aren't a bright lot much of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted October 26, 2010 Author Members Share Posted October 26, 2010 Not boiling at all. Sylph's never really liked Joan. Everyone is entitled to express their own opinion. The rodent comments are just like Joan's comments about Aniston, an opinion, which everyone is entitled to express. Looks are subjective to a great degree, if anyone should know that, it's me ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted October 26, 2010 Members Share Posted October 26, 2010 Y&RWorldTurner, the Madonna expert , will correct me, but I think she even changed her name (legally?) to Esther on the advice she received from the Kabbalah Centre. She was also accused of blasphemy by some rabbis because of her song Isaac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members remos Posted October 26, 2010 Members Share Posted October 26, 2010 Thank you. And you've just hit upon the button of truth - women get better looking with age!!! (Men do too, but we aren't focused on them at the moment ...... Sean Connery for example). The cult of plastic surgery is denying that beauty for some seamless ideal of a mannequin's face. Again with my BSG obsession: you put Mary Mcdonnell, Grace Park, Katee Sackhoff and Tricia Hefler together and the stand out by far is Mary. The others are all attractive women, but she exudes beauty in a way the younger women haven't earned yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members remos Posted October 26, 2010 Members Share Posted October 26, 2010 I love the word "blasphemy"... it's so biased... true bit of trivia: Bing Crosby almost didn't record Adeste Fideles because he thought it would be blasphemy, and never accepted a dime for doing it because he was so strongly Catholic. Now that didn't stop him from beating the crap out of his kids or being one of the bigger egos around, but hey, he was respectful! - Remos... who amoung other talents has a degree in Theology and a great ability to piss off the Christian Establishment.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted October 26, 2010 Members Share Posted October 26, 2010 I feel like I'm attending a fête in hôtel Lambert every day here on SON. The invitees are graduates from prestigious East Coast drama schools or have coveted med school degrees, are globe-trotting from one financial centre to another, one day you hear they're in Barcelona, the other in the Balearics, some are directors in Manhattan advertising agencies, while some others are daytime writers with annual salary exceeding $2m. And some are theologians! All kinds of fabulous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted October 26, 2010 Members Share Posted October 26, 2010 A few years ago I remember thinking Mary Steenburgen started to look different, more plastic, but I was never sure. I was wondering if any of you might be able to tell anything from these photos. It was an anniversary thing for Back to the Future. Lea Thomson and a few others are also there. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1323888/Back-To-The-Future-cast-reunited-anniversary-launch.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphanguy74 Posted October 26, 2010 Members Share Posted October 26, 2010 Boy did you nail THAT on the head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members remos Posted October 26, 2010 Members Share Posted October 26, 2010 I used to hang out on SOC and got in trouble ALL THE TIME. I've now come to realize the intellectuals live here - it's much more fun!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted October 26, 2010 Author Members Share Posted October 26, 2010 Well, I am headed to Geneva next week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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