Posted
10:22 AM
by Gene
Years ago
the whole world was aghast when Mary Pickford cut her hair.
Now Renée What's-Her-Name divorces some country twanger, and we laugh, or snooze.
In some ways that's a healthy thing. But why can't the objects of our ridicule and inattention be prettier?
P. S. at 8:45 p.m.: A delicious update
here, complete with
Bridget Jones parody hed (no doubt funnier than the books). Stories like this make one happy inconveniences can happen to overpublicized people.
P. P. S. at 8:55 p.m.: More on the "fraud" angle
here. At first I posted on this because of What's-Her-Name's raging beauty, but something about this story gives it legs -- I just wish I knew what. They're probably better looking.