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The high whine of top models
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July 31, 1999 |
"You're a moron to let a 15-year-old go into this business," sniffs aging model Lauren Hutton on the upcoming show. Vogue editor Anna Wintour agrees that she'd "do everything in my power to stop" her daughter from peddling her beauty. And even Elite Model Management chairman John Casablancas, who makes his living from leggy, pouty-lipped gals who make their way down runways and into magazines and lingerie ads, disdainfully maintains that models are "most of all selfish ... they develop into monsters of egocentrism." So doesn't anyone have anything nice to say about these sad skinnies who strut their slenderness for the sake of society? Well, model Susie Bick looks at the bright side, chirping, "You can go home at the end of the day after a shoot and if you're in a hotel room, you can just hit the bottle because you know it's all about your appearance ... It's a breeding ground for addiction." (Darn, I knew I made the wrong career choice.) And face-of-a-goddess, soul-of-a-poet Christy Turlington offers these skin-deep thoughts: "Beauty ... It's a gift and a curse ... It's a very complicated little thing." Well-put there, Christy. A real whine of the times. Ol' John Keats, who I understand also got his big break modeling for Calvin Klein, couldn't have said it better himself. - - - - - - - - - - - - A sexy film even a mother could love "Recently, I showed the movie ["Eyes Wide Shut"] to my mother and she and my stepfather were both shaking. She just hugged me and said how incredible it was, what a moving piece of work it was. It's kind of weird but I guess that's what I was most concerned about." -- Tom Cruise on how a mother's approval is the most important thing. (Are you listening, Farrah Fawcett?) - - - - - - - - - - - - Eeny, meany ... mine's a Moe? Leave it to Men's Health magazine, that bastion of deep spirituality, to discover the key to communication between the sexes in Three Stooges films. (Actually, the more I think about, the more convinced I become that the editors swiped the idea from that bastion of even deeper spirituality, Maxim.) According to those fabulous philosophers at Men's Health, the finer shadings of a man's personality can be extrapolated from his favorite Three Stooges character (four in all). Men who identify with Moe tend toward temper flares and metaphorical "eye pokes." (Nyoink! Think Howard Stern.) Those who prefer Larry are nice, if wimpy, guys who try to protect themselves from getting whacked on the nose. (Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. Think Jay Leno.) If Curly's his fave, he's likely to be a boisterous attention-hound like the late -- nyaah, nyaah -- Chris Farley. And Shemp lovers embody the leadership qualities of Moe as well as the social grace of Curly like -- buggah, buggah, buggah -- Bill Clinton. In other words, Shemp feels your pain. - - - - - - - - - - - - Not like you other deep, soulful Spice Girls, eh, Sporty? Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! "[Geri Halliwell is] a great celebrity, but musically it doesn't come from the heart. It's just hollow." -- Sporty Spice Mel C on the artist formerly known as Ginger Spice, her solo-career-seeking ex-band mate turned U.S. goodwill ambassador. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits If any of you randy readers out there smacked your foreheads when you saw Thursday's Nothing Personal item about young Francis D. Cornworth's virginity auction on eBay and thought, "Wow. What a great way to get some action and make a little moolah on the side," think again. The eBay powers that be do not look kindly on such seductive business schemes. The company's official word on the sudden disappearance of frisky Francis' imaginative item early Wednesday afternoon? "We removed the item immediately after it was brought to our attention," eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove told NP after investigating the matter. "It was determined that it might fall into an area that could be described as prostitution, which is in violation of our user agreement." So you can stop composing that description of your own ... uh ... offering now. Rumors that George will crash without its famous founder appear to have been grossly exaggerated. French publisher Hachette Filipacchi Media, which shares ownership of the magazine with the Kennedy family, announced Friday that it will continue to support its half of the late John F. Kennedy Jr.'s slightly jaundiced journalistic baby. "I don't see any problem in continuing the magazine," HFM chairman Gerald de Roquemaurel said, in an attempt to quiet the magazine's oft-sounded death knell. "We have the good luck to have what may be the best-known magazine in the world." In other words, JFK Jr.'s tragic demise may have ultimately rescued his magazine by giving it the kind of publicity money can't buy? Let the conspiracy theories begin. Don't go around implying that Uncle Miltie's some kind of swisher and then be surprised to get a swift spiky kick from the famous comedian's high-profile high heels. That's the message the 91-year-old funnyman's trying to get across to "Out!" by suing the gay pub for -- all together now, in our best Dr. Evil voices -- $6 million. Mr. Television objects to a real estate ad the magazine ran depicting him in full Carmen Miranda attire along with the caption "Our team of friendly professionals know how to cater to royalty ... after all, every queen deserves a castle." According to the cross-dressing comedian's complaint "the depiction of Berle ... would convey to a reasonable person that [he] was a homosexual ... Berle is a heterosexual male and does not now, nor has he ever, engaged in homosexual conduct, nor does Berle wish to be viewed as being homosexual." (Not that there's anything wrong with that, he stresses.) Geez, next thing you know they'll be telling us Rock Hudson was gay.
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