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on 2008-12-27 04:48:25Paris Hilton's Monroe Comparison
Paris Hilton always knew she was destined for fame - because her grandmother has likened her to Marilyn Monroe ever since she was a child. The socialite was born into a life of luxury, and even now the 27-year-old is convinced she was always meant to be a
on 2008-12-21 04:46:01Paris: I was destined to be 'blonde icon'
Paris Hilton says it was her destiny to become a blonde icon ever since she was treated like Marilyn Monroe from the earliest age.
on 2008-12-19 04:52:35Exclusive Marilyn Monroe Photographs Sold
A collection of 36 photographs taken of Marilyn Monroe have been sold for £97,000, reported by Vogue.com.The photographs were taken by Bert Stern for the American Vogue, back in 1962. They are believed to have been the last professional pictures taken of
on 2008-12-19 04:50:21Monroe photos sold for thousands
A collection of photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken for Vogue magazine the year she died fetch nearly $150,000 at auction.
on 2008-12-18 04:48:15Marilyn Monroe pics sold for nearly $150,000
A collection of photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken for Vogue magazine the year she died has been auctioned in New York for nearly $150,000. A spokeswoman for Christie’s auction house says the 36 photos taken by Bert Stern sold for $146,500 on
on 2008-12-18 04:51:55Marilyn Monroe pics sold for nearly $150,000
(AP)
AP - A collection of photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken for Vogue magazine the year she died has been auctioned in New York for nearly $150,000.
on 2008-12-17 04:45:06Marilyn Monroe pics sold for nearly $150,000
(AP)
AP - A collection of photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken for Vogue magazine the year she died has been auctioned in New York for nearly $150,000.
on 2008-12-17 04:45:02Marilyn Monroe pics sold for nearly $150,000
(AP)
AP - A collection of photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken for Vogue magazine the year she died has been auctioned in New York for nearly $150,000.
on 2008-12-17 04:45:04Marilyn Monroe pics sold for nearly $150,000
1962 images were final professional photos taken of actress.
on 2008-12-17 04:46:32Marilyn Monroe pics sold for nearly $150,000
A collection of photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken for Vogue magazine the year she died has been auctioned in New York for nearly ...
on 2008-12-17 04:47:00In pictures
Photos of Marilyn Monroe go on sale in New York
on 2008-12-17 04:47:41Marilyn Monroe pics sold for nearly $150,000
(AP)
AP - A collection of photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken for Vogue magazine the year she died has been auctioned in New York for nearly $150,000.
on 2008-12-17 04:45:07Marilyn Monroe's Fashion Line
Marilyn Monroe is a style icon and fashion inspiration to many women and now the legendary actress is to get her own fashion line, Vogue reports. Forty-eight years after her death, House of Monroe, a US fashion line based on the actress' style is set to l
on 2008-12-06 04:50:25Sale of large collection of Marilyn Monroe photos
(AP)
AP - Before the world knew her as Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jeane Baker so captivated photographer Andre de Dienes at her first modeling assignment that he later recorded their meeting in his diary: "An earthly sexy-looking angel! Sent expressly to me!"
on 2008-12-06 04:45:14Marilyn Monroe Voted Style Icon
1950s star Marilyn Monroe is the surprise winner of a major vote to find a style icon to inspire fashions in 2008. She was chosen by 30 per cent of the women who voted on Miss Bimbo
on 2008-10-07 04:55:29Tony Curtis Regrets Monroe Kiss Jibe.
Tony Curtis Regrets Monroe Kiss Jibe.... Hollywood star Tony Curtis regrets criticising his kiss with late screen star Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot - insisting their clinch was very passionate. Curtis once likened his steamy scene with Monroe in the
on 2008-10-04 04:48:07NY photogs deny wrongdoing over nude Monroe pics
(AP)
AP - A lawyer for two photography professionals says seven nude and seminude Marilyn Monroe photos that are the subject of a lawsuit were found in curbside garbage nearly 35 years ago.
on 2008-10-02 04:45:55Monroe footage makes $17,500
RARE behind-the-scenes footage of screen legend Marilyn Monroe failed to reach its estimated auction price after going under the hammer in Melbourne.
on 2008-09-26 04:49:49Monroe footage sold in Australia
Film footage featuring Marilyn Monroe on the set of Some Like It Hot sells for A$17,500 (£8,000) in Australia.
on 2008-09-26 04:49:34-
Famous American Life Energy Vampires -
Unsuspected Of Destroying Your Emotional Integrity
10 November 2003
{HRI 20031110-V3.3.1}
(Version 3.3
on 18 June 2005)
(links updated
in Version 3.3.1
on 17 June 2006)
(Suitable for foreign
language students)
'
If you admire the wrong people,
for things that are not really theirs to be admired,
then YOUR Emotional Integrity suffers.
(They themselves have none to begin with.)
'
That is because, how happy you are with Life, has to do with whether
you choose and give your Energy (your attention, your love)
NOT to people who perfectly PRETEND to you (as some famous actors
and also some famous politicians do, and which they do indeed
perfectly, without being detected by their public), but
how happy you are with life, depends on whether you choose,
and naturally then give your Energy that creates Life,
to people who are GENUINELY creating Life
- Life to share
and not as a pretense, but
- Life to really enjoy with you and with others,
and not as a pretending 'act,' that displays "happiness."
'
You will have to know, that truth is 'what happened' - it
is an absolute thing, not 'what someone says or shows you
or wants you to feel "happened".'
And also when it is not reported at all, it still
happened the way it actually did happen
and you can be aware, sense or feel that, what really
happens, or what really did happen
and you can also sense, feel, and then be aware
of what the actual, true intention of someone
is, when he or she does something:
Such is the nature of life and of perception
- regardless of whether a Criminal Mind
denies it or tries to block your feeling,
or tricks and so distorts your feeling,
your feeling things that are happening or
that have happened.
'
Genuinely creating life, is very different from PRETENDING to
create "life"
- but you know from actors that they do "create life" as a
totally convincing pretense on TV or in movie theaters,
and *(6)
- you know (I assume you know) of politicians who PRETEND
to be very caring and very responsible,
while they do actually nothing but lying, acting with
contempt for others, secretly harming others, but
wanting to be undetected or un-opposed in the harm
they inflict on others.
'
'
Where and when 'getting attention' or 'getting money' or 'getting
Admiration,' already DEFINES *(7) "success," then
admiring such "success" in others,
and also, of course, you yourself pursuing such
"success,"
and you admiring yourself for 'getting a lot of
attention' or 'getting lots of money' or 'feeling a
lot of Admiration,' *(8)
is all too easily destroying your Emotional Integrity that
you need for feeling genuine happiness.
'
Now (however) the confusing thing is, that Criminal Minds
(Life Energy Vampires) CAN ONLY pretend to be "happy"
- and you can not easily detect that they are
pretending, maybe not at all at some times,
- and they probably have made you NOT WANT to look at
their extreme Ugliness,
- and they made you pretend (so that you think and
act towards them as if) "it is not there" - as long
as they keep it fully hidden from you,
- and you are confused by them - they give you the
feeling - they make you believe and feel, that
"they are sane now," when actually they only
forcefully PRETEND to be "happy and normal," even
"caring and loving,"
and so you do not at all see what is actually going on,
'
unless you do create the courage and the mental force (the
Life Energy) to look at and through their - usually hidden -
actions, *(9)
you can actually see these hidden things, because
Life Energy can penetrate and sense anything,
and - better still of course - if you can create and hold
on to and use enough of your Life Energy, as is necessary
to penetrate their masking Energies and
to read (to feel, to 'see,' to experience) their
hidden, but actual thoughts and actual intentions,
their hidden contempt for people and their
hidden contempt for life,
their complete disrespect for truth and thus
for people and thus for life in general, and
if you manage
to look behind their Energy mask, BEHIND the "shining,
glittering smile of success and happiness" that they are
able to give you a perfect and heartily felt SHOW of
- perfect and wholly undetectable as actors do it
(see some listed, below) or as politicians do (some
examples listed, below, too)
- while they tell you "how much they love you;" or
- while they tell you "how much they fight for your
well-being and for your future,"
Really...
'
'
Happiness IS (the) feeling that you are connected to life.
In other, more formal words:
Your ability to enjoy life is proportional to
your Emotional Integrity,
that is, when your desire to feel beautiful
flowers, has enough integrity, then it connects
you indeed to real and beautiful flowers,
and - to give a quite applicable but
repulsive example - not to some pieces of
dirty toilet paper, that from a distance,
between the grass, look like "white
flowers;" you do not like to connect to
that as "beautiful flowers" (see examples
below), and to give your Life Energy and
emotions to those "beautiful flowers,"
you do NOT let your senses, your feelings and
emotions be cheated, you do NOT want these
destroyed by someone's pretense, I assume,
but you rather like to maintain or regain your
ability
(with a particular type and the amount of
that Life Energy of yours, that you have
or create in order to connect to Life so
strongly and thus so correctly, that
you are able to feel the tremendous
Beauty of Life, and thus you are able)
to FEEL the tremendous happiness of being
alive. *(1)
'
'
In order to help you restore and to increase your Emotional Integrity,
I am giving you a list of some famous American Life Energy Vampires,
that I happened to notice, and
that have generally not been recognized as to the nature of
their fame,
regarding the ownership of the Energy for the
various types of abilities that they employ(ed)
to attract and to control or to rivet your
attention and admiration, and that of many
others too, of course,
while they are displaying and claiming various abilities (Life
Energies) they use, to be their own. *(1)
Frank Sinatra
Oprah Winfrey
Larry King
Michael Jackson
Marlon Brando
Quincy Jones
Tom Cruise
John Travolta
Barbara Streisand
Liz Taylor
Paul Newman
Robert Redford
Faye Dunaway
Dustin Hofman
Alissa Milano
Warren Beatty
Madonna
Jane Fonda
Diana Ross
Cher
George Clooney
Michelle Pfeiffer
Bill Gates
Barbara Boxer (US Senator)
Edward 'Teddy' Kennedy (US Senator)
Henry Kissinger
John F. Kennedy; Marilyn Monroe (alias Norma Jean Baker)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Benjamin Franklin
The list does not include, as already stated in the
subject title, any such individuals from Europe,
Africa or Asia,
also not those, like Albert Einstein, or
Ayn Rand, who some may consider 'American.'
These I have mentioned in the European edition.
In the edition about Europe,
'Famous European Life Energy Vampires - Unsuspected Of Destroying
Your Emotional Integrity' {HRI 20040729-V1.1}, *(5)
I have taken the time and made the effort to write down for you the
main intention of each individual that has been mentioned there.
You could use that, for looking through and seeing more easily also
the Life Energy masks of those mentioned here.
'
'
'
These things are made more understandable in the other Human Rights
Issues {the HRI's} - and the HRI 'Genuine Art' *(1) is a good
introduction to the matter.
I hope this helps you to increase your Emotional Integrity, and that
you may alleviate some tiny portion of the damage that has been done
and is being done to you, as described for instance in
'The Mafia Code Against Mankind,' *(2)
and in
'The Origin Of Evil.' *(3)
I made these observations in accordance with the method of
finding truth, called
'The Trinity Of Science,' *(4)
without which it is not possible - I can add now - to
actually obtain an accurate understanding of life.
Koos Nolst Trenite "Cause Trinity"
human rights philosopher and poet
'Men of all nations came
to listen to Solomon's wisdom,
sent by all the kings of the world,
who had heard of his wisdom.'
1 Kings 4:34
_________
Reference:
'If You Want Peace, Then Do Understand And Face Evil - A Short
Course In Human Rights Philosophy' {HRI 20041225-V1.02}
(25 December 2004 - Christmas Day)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.rights.human/msg/34578c4c3a9f0b22
'
_________
Footnotes:
(1) 'Genuine Art - Producing It, Recognizing it' (20 Dec 2002)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.europe/msg/dc1388ffc08294fb
________________________________________
Additional understanding can be found in:
'Defining Love And Hate - A Law Of Life' V2.0i
(29 July 2002 - Version 2.0i on 7 January 2003)
http://groups.google.com/group/Koos-Nolst-Trenite/msg/40d2a6d4cadc84b1
'Definition Of Schizophrenic' {HRI 20021125} (25 November 2002)
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.psychology.misc/msg/f34d97fee2a0b84d?fwc=1
'Fine Particle Physics To Understand Psychosis'
{HRI 20030227-V2.2} (27 Feb 2003 - Version 2.2 on 23 Jan 2005)
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med/msg/a3940363702cebcf?fwc=1
'Understanding Eternal Criminally Minded Individuals'
(24 November 2003) {HRI 20031124}
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.europe/msg/9c378e7f32b5b016
'Definition Of Insane - Relation To Humor' {HRI 20030205}
(5 Feb 2003 - slightly edited and links updated 26 May 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.org.un/msg/99e8e53503038774?fwc=1
'The First International Law (Version 2.0) - {HRI 20021124-V2.0}'
(24 November 2002 - Version 2.0 on 23 Sept 2003)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.europe/msg/3923119365e39cab
'The Feeling "When God Has Left You..."
- Introduction to 'What is Hell' ' {HRI 20031124-V3.2}
(24 November 2003 - Version 3.2 on 16 May 2005)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion/msg/3c6799e5a78fbda5?fwc=1
'Criminal Minds ENJOY LYING, And THEY Know They Intentionally Lie'
{HRI 20050527-V3.5.1}
(27 May 2005 - Version 3.5.1 on 25 May 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.org.un/msg/6ddd59b506e96b9d?fwc=1
'
(2) 'The Mafia Code Against Mankind (Version 2.0)'
{HRI 20021018-V2.0} (18 October 2002 - V2.0 on 10 October 2003)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.europe/msg/4ff16a259b5da25a
(3) 'Understanding The Origin Of Evil (Version 1.1)
{HRI 20031025-V1.1} (25 October 2003 - V1.1 on 3 Nov 2003)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.europe/msg/4e38785914c23869
(4) 'The Trinity Of Science - Truth, Love and Beauty (Version 2.1)
{HRI 20030307-pi-1-V2.1}'
(7 March 2003 - V2.1 on 17 October 2003)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.europe/msg/4129fa4f1a67840e
(5) 'Famous European Life Energy Vampires - Unsuspected Of Destroying
Your Emotional Integrity' {HRI 20040729-V1.1}
(29 July 2004 - Version 1.1 on 27 Aug 2004)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.europe/msg/01ae9af4767aa656
(6) 'Example of a Criminal Mind - Tom Cruise (DeVette)'
{HRI 20040920-V2.5.1}
(20 September 2004 - Version 2.5.1 on 30 Nov 2005 - ref. updated
9 May 2006)
(7) 'The "Become Perfect"-Mind-Control of Hinduism, Buddhism and
New-Age Cults' {HRI 20050514-V3.1}
(14 May 2005 - Version 3.1 on 14 June 2005)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.europe/msg/45bcb24061d2d69c?fwc=1
(8) 'The Sanity Of Lindsay Lohan (And Other "Celebrities")'
(16 September 2004)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.gossip.celebrities/msg/d73b394c9e2da9e6?fwc=1
(9) Book 'The Mask Of Sanity - the acclaimed study of the
psychopathic personality'
By Hervey Cleckley, Medical College of Georgia, USA.
(St. Louis, MO - USA: Mosby Press Medical Library, 1982)
(New York: New American Library, ISBN 0-452-25341-1)
From the back cover of the book:
'Arrogant, shameless, immoral, impulsive, antisocial,
superficial, alert, self-assured, boastful, callous,
remorseless, charming, irresponsible:
'This is the poisonous mix of traits, that make up the
psychopathic personality. [...]
'Psychopaths also sit in corporate boardrooms [as
directors of companies or institutions] or function
as scientists or physicians [medical doctors] or in
any number of respectable capacities [holding
respected jobs or positions].
'They are all legally competent. [In the legal sense,
they are not insane, because they can talk and
think as brilliantly as a lawyer, to achieve their
purposes.]
'None of them "hears voices" or displays any
psychosis [that a psychiatrist could easily
recognize or could recognize at all, as these can not
and also do not want to define psychosis correctly].
'But they [psychopathic personalities] are all headed
for [causing others] big trouble, in a life-long
string of [causing] disasters [for others], that
could run the gamut [range, the whole spectrum]:
From [causing] financial ruin, to murder.
'Psychiatrists know neither the cause nor the cure of
this disorder [and they can not and do not want to
define 'disorder' either, and they have been working
and will continue to work very hard to hide the
cause of any 'disorder'] which evades [their]
established definitions of either sanity or insanity;
[So, I have defined all these terms, for you,
in the Human Rights Issues {the HRI's}, as none
indeed existed. So it is for the first time in
history, that correct definitions exist and
have been published.]
'indeed, psychiatrists themselves
[and any persons who try to help and to
understand Criminal Minds - any people who
try to help them]
'are at times as helplessly manipulated by the
psychopath, as are the psychopath's other victims.'
'
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'
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"Brandy Alexandre" wrote in message
news:Xns97E15E1FEC1A8675309@129.250.170.82...
> Wyle Coyote wrote in alt.showbiz.gossip:
> Brandy Alexandre
================
Joltin Joe was the cheapest cocksucker on the planet
if he could save a buck he'd live with Hitler
(personal knowledge)
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Wyle Coyote wrote in alt.showbiz.gossip:
> New Marilyn Monroe Video Footage Found By old friend...
> light. The previously unseen footage that has been hoarded by a
> lady who met Marilyn when she was just a little girl has sparked
> renewed interest in the blonde bombshell.
> and her family in California when they were first married.
> golf with DiMaggio; Massey says of Monroe: "Marilyn was an
> incredible person to be with... She was just like another mom to
> me."
> TV networks in the hope of it being broadcast.
> http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news?id=18332
Why in the world would they need to live with anyone???
--
Brandy Alexandre
-- Everything tastes better with cat hair in it. =^.^=
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On 12 Jun 2006 15:22:03 -0700, "Wyle Coyote"
wrote:
>New Marilyn Monroe Video Footage Found By old friend...
>The previously unseen footage that has been hoarded by a lady who met
>Marilyn when she was just a little girl has sparked renewed interest in
>the blonde bombshell.
>her family in California when they were first married.
>with DiMaggio; Massey says of Monroe: "Marilyn was an incredible person
>to be with... She was just like another mom to me."
>networks in the hope of it being broadcast.
and making loads of money.
JAH
Net Crimes & Misdemeanors
netcrimes.net
2nd edition NOW OUT!!
haltabuse.org
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New Marilyn Monroe Video Footage Found By old friend...
By: Lowri Williams on 6/12/2006
Home movie footage of screen legend Marilyn Monroe has come to light.
The previously unseen footage that has been hoarded by a lady who met
Marilyn when she was just a little girl has sparked renewed interest in
the blonde bombshell.
Monroe and her husband Joe DiMaggio lived with Dolores Hope Massey and
her family in California when they were first married.
Massey has kept hold of the video footage that show Monroe playing golf
with DiMaggio; Massey says of Monroe: "Marilyn was an incredible person
to be with... She was just like another mom to me."
It is believed that Massey will now offer the footage to various U TV
networks in the hope of it being broadcast.
http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news?id=18332
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Attila_The_Tongue wrote:
> On 15 May 2006 11:48:01 -0700, Dr. Sooz wrote:
> Isnt that one of the photos of Marilyn that wound up in Playboys' first
> issue? I read somewhere that those photos were shot for a calendar,
> originally, before she was world famous, and Hefner merely bought the
> rights to publish
You read?
That's risible! Further like how old is this news you've stated?
Where have you been living...under a rock???
I thought Mr. Know it all would know the details of something regarded
by most as "common knowledge"???
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"Attila_The_Tongue" wrote in message
news:1mwaobtrh7b5d$.uqa4r8hmismv.dlg@40tude.net...
> On 15 May 2006 11:48:01 -0700, Dr. Sooz wrote:
> Isnt that one of the photos of Marilyn that wound up in Playboys' first
> issue? I read somewhere that those photos were shot for a calendar,
> originally, before she was world famous, and Hefner merely bought the
> rights to publish
If you follow the thread there's a nifty link to a story by the photographer
who shot it.
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On 15 May 2006 11:48:01 -0700, Dr. Sooz wrote:
> Ha! Ha! Ha!
> `````````````````````````
> Laugh all you want -- that's the right answer, doof.
Isnt that one of the photos of Marilyn that wound up in Playboys' first
issue? I read somewhere that those photos were shot for a calendar,
originally, before she was world famous, and Hefner merely bought the
rights to publish
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Ha! Ha! Ha!
`````````````````````````
Laugh all you want -- that's the right answer, doof.
-
Their friendship was clean and innocent and only those sick fucks with sick
disturbed minds try to make something more of it than it was. How dare you
suggest it could be anything more than normal. I hate all you sick mentally
disturbed cretins posting BS innuendo to shame something perfectly good,
innocent and normal. Die, all of you.
********
"Taylor" wrote in message
news:2cX7g.13614$M31.73049@news20.bellglobal.com...
> boylove (BL)
> West) was perving on poor Jack Johnson (Will Robinson) on the set during
> filming of the movie. Maybe he couldn't get past the image of Johnson in
> that tight outfit he wore and this contributed to the failure of his
> marriage to Melissa.
> O'Rourke and Dominique Dunne, plus Marilyn Monroe and Bob Crane) and
> someone body put a 'Lost In Space' sticker on the marble.
> suspicious ('Punky Brewster')!
>
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painter wrote:
> Actually, that's Marilyn Monroe on the calendar.
Aha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Ha! Ha! Ha!
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> who is the naked white woman in the photo above Chaka???
`````````````````````
This is a trick question, right?
That's the famous nude of Marilyn Monroe early in her career. (I
thought everyone knew that)
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boylove (BL)
aalucard@webtv.net wrote:
> With all the news about how dangerous men are with children could Dr
> Smith be written the same today as back in the 1960s.
> watch this show. Not all the time but every once in a while I would
> watch a bunch of episodes are a seasons run.
> to be rewritten totally in terms of his relationship to Will.
> the father who paid attention and was a friend not an authoritarian
> tple even though Smith put Will in dangerous situations to save himself
> you knew he cared. But never once did I think of it as sexual.
> Or are we becoming so jaded that we see everything through a sexual
> lens? Would we expect that Will's parents would percieve Smith and Wills
> friendship suspecially?
> would have to go out of their way stressing the innocence.
> sexual lens even if sexuality is not there.
>
I think in the failed 1998 'Lost In Space' movie, Matt LeBlanc (Major
Don West) was perving on poor Jack Johnson (Will Robinson) on the set
during filming of the movie. Maybe he couldn't get past the image of
Johnson in that tight outfit he wore and this contributed to the failure
of his marriage to Melissa.
I saw Jonathan Harris niche in the cemetery in Santa Monica (also
Heather O'Rourke and Dominique Dunne, plus Marilyn Monroe and Bob Crane)
and someone body put a 'Lost In Space' sticker on the marble.
I think Punky Brewster's relationship w/ Henry Warnimont would be highly
suspicious ('Punky Brewster')!
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by BAZ BAMIGBOYE, Daily Mail
08:34am 3rd March 2006
Dreamgirl Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce is allowed to move it, but she can't shake it. Cause if
she shakes it, she just might break it.
In the long-awaited film version of the landmark Broadway musical
Dreamgirls, Ms Knowles plays a singer not a million miles from Diana Ross,
and she is poured into the sort of skintight gowns once favoured by the
Supremes' frontwoman.
So tight were the dresses that the movie's choreographer Fatima Robinson had
to warn Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce "not to shake it on this one".
"It's natural for Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce to go for it so I told her: 'No one saw the bottom
then!' I said you can move it, but don't shake it!"
'Barely wiggle'
Shaking or no shaking, Ms Knowles looks incredible. And ironically, part of
that may even be due to her restricted movement, according to Dreamgirls
costume designer Sharen Davis.
"When you look at Diana Ross, those gowns were so tight she could barely
wiggle," Miss Davis said.
"Everything had to be fitted right on to their bodies," she added. "In the
Sixties, Marilyn Monroe and Doris Day were body conscious, and Diana decided
to emulate them. They were classy in those gowns, so even if they moved a
little bit, it was hot!"
Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce's not complaining. "I've wanted to look like this my whole life,"
she confessed, as she allowed herself a little shimmy in a fire engine red,
tassled dress.
I spoke to her at a cocktail party held in downtown LA, after watching a
rehearsal scene where she and her co-stars Jennifer Hudson and Anika Noni
Rose - who together form The Dreams, as the group is called - sing and dance
in a roof-raising gospel number called Step Into The Bad Side.
Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce said that she'd done a lot of research for the role. 'I looked at
everything the Supremes, and Martha Reeves did. 'We rehearsed for two months
before we started filming. And I prepared for two months before that. This
was my dream, to be in this film. I wanted it bad."
So bad that she spent weeks having wigs created and make-up designed, all of
which she paid for, before her screen test with director Bill Condon and
executives from Dreamworks and Paramount, the studios backing the movie.
Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce plays Deena who, when we first see her, is part of a threegirl group
working as backing singers for a fading war-horse of a soul singer, played
by Eddie Murphy.
A sharp-suited manager, in the shape of Jamie Foxx, hoists the Dreams out of
back-up and into the fierce glare of national fame. But it costs them.
Effie, the plumper girl with the best voice, gets edged out and, in the
manner of Diana Ross headlining the Supremes, Deena soon leads the Dreams.
As Jamie Foxx noted, it was not a situation Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce'>Beyonce.html' title='Beyonce'>Beyonce was entirely unfamiliar
with.
Wigs created and make-up designed
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through with Destiny's Child, and she's joked about it with me a few times.
"She was put out there in front. It happens in the music business, and it
happens in a heightened fashion in this movie," the Oscar-winning star of
Ray said.
Director Condon said the film was about how the African-American sound, and
look, was shaped - or rather tamed - for a mass white audience.
"It's about the price of crossover success in the US," he said.
Condon, who wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-winning movie Chicago, saw
Dreamgirls on its opening night on Broadway 25 years ago.
He has written the screenplay for his film and asked the show's composer
Henry Krieger to write four new songs, and extend several others.
I caught Dreamgirls at the same time - it was my first ever Broadway
musical - and I remember legendary director Michael Bennett's dazzling
stagecraft. It was an electrifying experience that became (and remains) my
gold standard for Broadway shows.
It's rash to predict these things, with the film still shooting and not due
out till the end of the year, but if the brief footage I saw - and the one
scene I watched being performed - are anything to go by, Dreamgirls is going
to be the movie to beat at next year's Academy Awards.
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Nigella, happy to be curvy and diet free
by RICHARD SIMPSON, Daily Mail
08:40am 28th February 2006
Her hour-glass figure, flowing dark hair and pose in a revealing
off-the-shoulder dress may seem a touch familiar.
Nigella Lawson is happy to show off her voluptuous figure as she echoes Jane
Russell in this seductive image.
The Hollywood actress scandalised 1940s society in a poster for the film The
Outlaw, which left little to the imagination.
Miss Lawson, however, sees herself fitting into an even earlier era, when
curves were all. "I'm very glad that I don't have that skinny
straight-up-and-down shape, that I'm this Edwardian throwback with a very
small waist and ankles and wrists, and the rest - billowing," she said.
The 46-year-old celebrity cook, pictured in a magazine this week, has been
called sexier than Marilyn Monroe by her husband since 2003, Charles
Saatchi. "I've never been with a man who thinks that skinniness is
desirable, which helps," she said in the interview with Red. It's very
important to be with someone who makes you feel madly desirable."
She has vowed never again to go on a diet after her mother's admission
shortly before dying of cancer.
"My mother was tortured by her weight," she said. "When she was dying she
said "It's the first time I haven't worried about what I'm eating". You've
got to think how warped it is to feel released from dieting because you have
a terminal illness.
"When I had a daughter, I vowed I would never say 'I hate myself, I'm fat'
in front of her because I didn't want to pass it on."
She added: "You can't live on 1,000 calories a day and be happy. Now diets
are all saying 'This isn't a diet, this is a way of life, forever'. Well,
that makes me want to throw myself out of the window.
"Now I don't know what I weigh. I don't want to be totally consumed by that
world. Even when I was dieting, I'd take recipe books to the gym and balance
Ten Best Cream Cakes on the treadmill."
Miss Lawson, whose mother Vanessa Salmon died in 1985, aged 48, has two
children by her late husband John Diamond. He died in 1997, also of cancer.
. The full interview appears in the April issue of Red, out tomorrow.
-
Who's that girl, really?
August 22, 2005
The Sun-Herald
Singer and actress Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson and husband, singer Nick Lachey, arrive
at the 13th annual ESPY Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood last month.
Photo: Reuters
She's an enigma wrapped in a riddle; a star who is most famous for asking
dumb questions. But is Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson - singer, actor, empire builder - a
myth of her own making, Phillip McCarthy wonders.
It's not a bad time to be Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson.
It was a canny reality show about life with her equally telegenic spouse
that created her media moment - and the honeymoon is going strong.
But the bottom line Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson question still hasn't been answered: "Is
this girl for real?"
Is she dumb or smart? Acting or singing? Married or divorced? Naughty or
nice? Bubbly or manipulative?
People keep coming back for more. Her movie debut, The Dukes Of Hazzard, hit
the American cineplexes in No. 1 position this month, assuring her of a
Hollywood crossover career. She has two lines of clothing about to hit the
stores and her bath and beauty line already has, as they say, "strong
curiosity interest" in the stores.
Remember, Simpson actually started out as a singer - so it's probably
fitting that her fourth album, to be released later in the year, features a
cover of the Nancy Sinatra hit These Boots Are Made For Walkin'. There's
certainly no evidence that Simpson, with a name more searched on the web
than Britney Spears's, is doing anything less than making really big
strides.
That's not bad for a girl whose distinguishing characteristic has been a
penchant for saying really dumb things. Adorably dumb - and always delivered
with well-meaning sincerity - but not the sort of thing on which multi-media
empires are anchored.
"She made this connection with her reality show back in 2002; people just
sat back and took her in, so the real strength of her celebrity is her
personality," Us Weekly magazine editor in chief Janice Min said. "Yes,
people laughed at her when she came out with some real clunkers. But they
were laughing with her as well because she seemed so natural about it. And
she's always been smart enough to laugh at herself."
It helps, of course, that Simpson is pretty easy on the eye. And in zeroing
in on her first big movie role - in Dukes she plays a drop-dead gorgeous,
and not too smart hillbilly siren called Daisy Duke - she didn't try for
anything she couldn't pull off.
We do know this: Simpson, at 25, is smart enough not to over-reach herself.
When we meet, she's at it again, quite convincingly. She's talking about why
she chose the role despite stiff competition and is wearing a T-shirt with a
picture of the Queen and the word "Anarchy" on it. If you ask her, though,
she says she doesn't know who is pictured.
She goes on to describe how the role played to her strengths and didn't tax
her shortcomings.
"I have, like, 12 lines," she says.
"All I had to do really was talk southern, which is easy if you come from
Texas, bat my eyes a lot, smile pretty much the whole time, and work out
several hours a day so I would look good in my Daisy Dukes. I'll be
interested some day to see myself in a movie where I can't play an
outdoorsy, southern girl. That would be a real challenge. Would it be any
good or not?"
Well, let's not get into that. But in playing Daisy Duke, though, it helps
that the character, if not exactly a fashion plate, has a wardrobe trend
named after her. Those short denim cut-offs that are Daisy's signature look
are now known in the fashion world as Daisy Dukes, in homage to the long,
luscious legs of the original television Daisy Duke, Catherine Bach.
For some reason, the denim hot pants look has long been Hollywood's ideal of
hillbilly chic. In the various film, stage and print versions of Al Capp's
Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae has always worn tight denim (as did Elly May Clampett
in The Beverly Hillbillies).
Predictably, of course, she was linked with one of her Dukes co-stars,
comedian Johnny Knoxville, which on Planet Jessica is a pretty big deal,
although certainly not something that doesn't help create a buzz for her
brand. They both laughed if off, of course. Everyone knows, from several
seasons of the Newlyweds, that Simpson is blissfully wed to another
actor-singer, Nick Lachey.
Hollywood has always loved adorable, ditzy blondes - from Marilyn Monroe to
Goldie Hawn to Drew Barrymore - and it seems endlessly happy to make room
for another, especially now that Meg Ryan has moved on from the field.
But not just any blonde; they have to be, not exactly wholesome, but nice.
And it's pretty well known that Simpson, 25, beat out another young blonde
singer with movie star aspirations for the role of Daisy Duke. That was
Britney Spears and the choice is instructive: Spears is a bit, well, trashy
to be adorable. Another post-Meg blonde with ambition, Brittany Murphy,
failed because her niceness was a bit too limp.
But Simpson may have done the dumb blonde, clueless ingenue thing to excess.
She seemed almost fixated on proving that she's not the brightest bulb in
the socket. Yet she was smart enough to have made it work for her: building
her brand and her bank balance.
The typical Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson gag usually involved taking food deions a
bit too literally with a punchline overlay of apparent personal
cluelessness. She was once seemingly caught - almost certainly
intentionally, but not obviously so - casually speculating on the exact
nature of a popular American brand of canned tuna called Chicken of the Sea.
How did they get the chooks to live underwater, she wondered, before putting
them in the can?
It became her signature gag and she has laughed all the way to the bank with
playing it like a thoroughly professional ingenue with a definite edge. It's
the sort of thing that seems to work with fast food, as Paris Hilton proved
recently.
In Simpson's case, a fast food chain engaged her to promote its version of a
fried chicken delicacy, known in America as buffalo wings. The pitch?
Jessica pulling silly faces and making infantile noises in a paddock full of
grazing, disinterested buffalo to try to get the animals to flap their wings
for the cameras. After putting up with that, doing Daisy Duke must have
seemed like Chekhov.
The only time grown-up reality seems to intrude on the charmed, if heavily
merchandised life of Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson, is when her marriage comes up for
discussion. And having sold it to television years ago, it's pretty much
public property now.
She and hubby Lachey, a one-time crooner in a boy band quartet called 98
Degrees, started dating when she was 18. Jessica - whose earring-wearing
father and manager Joe is an ordained Baptist minister - has always
maintained that she was a virgin when they married four years later. If so,
it was unusually restrained behaviour from a pop star; it certainly set the
bar high for any future strayings.
The couple became reality television fodder in 2002 when - presumably as a
shrewd calculation that their careers would benefit more than their marriage
would be trivialised - they opened their post-nuptial lives to television
cameras in the MTV series, Newlyweds. At least they did better than Carmen
Electra and one-time Red Hot Chili Pepper Dave Navarro who, in a similar MTV
series, probably lost whatever street cred they had before it.
"Everybody always asks me how I deal with the rumours about our marriage,"
Simpson says. "You just have to let it roll off your shoulders. I'd be
nervous if they weren't wanting to write about me. And Nick. In some ways,
you just have to look at it as a compliment. No one seems to be suggesting
that we've turned into unattractive people. So you just laugh it off and
hope that your character will prove it wrong."
As the media scrum gets more intense, though, so the marriage rumours get
more lurid.
Apart from her alleged fling with co-star Knoxville, Simpson has been linked
with Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst (who was also linked, before her latest
marriage, to Spears). And Lachey has been accused of "cavorting with
strippers". Even a corporate affiliate of Newlyweds network MTV spoke
recently of a "vigil for their strained relationship".
But perhaps even more troubling - given the role of perceived cluelessness
in riding out various controversies - is the insidious idea that Simpson is
not as clueless as she pretends to be. For this she can partly blame her
mother, Tina, who recently told Vanity Fair that her daughter's IQ was an
impressive 160. Jessica herself confirms the story; except she says her IQ
is 150.
Those Simpsons. They love confusing the issue. Jessica's sister, singer
Ashlee, was recently embroiled in a lip-synching controversy that suggested
she was incapable of learning lyrics.
Now Jessica and her mother are throwing contradictory numbers around about
the star's IQ. If you didn't know they were, like Daisy Duke, simple country
folk, you might think they were trying to confuse the issue.
Which might well be Jessica's recipe for success.
-
Who's that girl, really?
August 22, 2005
The Sun-Herald
Singer and actress Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson and husband, singer Nick Lachey, arrive
at the 13th annual ESPY Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood last month.
Photo: Reuters
She's an enigma wrapped in a riddle; a star who is most famous for asking
dumb questions. But is Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson - singer, actor, empire builder - a
myth of her own making, Phillip McCarthy wonders.
It's not a bad time to be Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson.
It was a canny reality show about life with her equally telegenic spouse
that created her media moment - and the honeymoon is going strong.
But the bottom line Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson question still hasn't been answered: "Is
this girl for real?"
Is she dumb or smart? Acting or singing? Married or divorced? Naughty or
nice? Bubbly or manipulative?
People keep coming back for more. Her movie debut, The Dukes Of Hazzard, hit
the American cineplexes in No. 1 position this month, assuring her of a
Hollywood crossover career. She has two lines of clothing about to hit the
stores and her bath and beauty line already has, as they say, "strong
curiosity interest" in the stores.
Remember, Simpson actually started out as a singer - so it's probably
fitting that her fourth album, to be released later in the year, features a
cover of the Nancy Sinatra hit These Boots Are Made For Walkin'. There's
certainly no evidence that Simpson, with a name more searched on the web
than Britney Spears's, is doing anything less than making really big
strides.
That's not bad for a girl whose distinguishing characteristic has been a
penchant for saying really dumb things. Adorably dumb - and always delivered
with well-meaning sincerity - but not the sort of thing on which multi-media
empires are anchored.
"She made this connection with her reality show back in 2002; people just
sat back and took her in, so the real strength of her celebrity is her
personality," Us Weekly magazine editor in chief Janice Min said. "Yes,
people laughed at her when she came out with some real clunkers. But they
were laughing with her as well because she seemed so natural about it. And
she's always been smart enough to laugh at herself."
It helps, of course, that Simpson is pretty easy on the eye. And in zeroing
in on her first big movie role - in Dukes she plays a drop-dead gorgeous,
and not too smart hillbilly siren called Daisy Duke - she didn't try for
anything she couldn't pull off.
We do know this: Simpson, at 25, is smart enough not to over-reach herself.
When we meet, she's at it again, quite convincingly. She's talking about why
she chose the role despite stiff competition and is wearing a T-shirt with a
picture of the Queen and the word "Anarchy" on it. If you ask her, though,
she says she doesn't know who is pictured.
She goes on to describe how the role played to her strengths and didn't tax
her shortcomings.
"I have, like, 12 lines," she says.
"All I had to do really was talk southern, which is easy if you come from
Texas, bat my eyes a lot, smile pretty much the whole time, and work out
several hours a day so I would look good in my Daisy Dukes. I'll be
interested some day to see myself in a movie where I can't play an
outdoorsy, southern girl. That would be a real challenge. Would it be any
good or not?"
Well, let's not get into that. But in playing Daisy Duke, though, it helps
that the character, if not exactly a fashion plate, has a wardrobe trend
named after her. Those short denim cut-offs that are Daisy's signature look
are now known in the fashion world as Daisy Dukes, in homage to the long,
luscious legs of the original television Daisy Duke, Catherine Bach.
For some reason, the denim hot pants look has long been Hollywood's ideal of
hillbilly chic. In the various film, stage and print versions of Al Capp's
Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae has always worn tight denim (as did Elly May Clampett
in The Beverly Hillbillies).
Predictably, of course, she was linked with one of her Dukes co-stars,
comedian Johnny Knoxville, which on Planet Jessica is a pretty big deal,
although certainly not something that doesn't help create a buzz for her
brand. They both laughed if off, of course. Everyone knows, from several
seasons of the Newlyweds, that Simpson is blissfully wed to another
actor-singer, Nick Lachey.
Hollywood has always loved adorable, ditzy blondes - from Marilyn Monroe to
Goldie Hawn to Drew Barrymore - and it seems endlessly happy to make room
for another, especially now that Meg Ryan has moved on from the field.
But not just any blonde; they have to be, not exactly wholesome, but nice.
And it's pretty well known that Simpson, 25, beat out another young blonde
singer with movie star aspirations for the role of Daisy Duke. That was
Britney Spears and the choice is instructive: Spears is a bit, well, trashy
to be adorable. Another post-Meg blonde with ambition, Brittany Murphy,
failed because her niceness was a bit too limp.
But Simpson may have done the dumb blonde, clueless ingenue thing to excess.
She seemed almost fixated on proving that she's not the brightest bulb in
the socket. Yet she was smart enough to have made it work for her: building
her brand and her bank balance.
The typical Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson gag usually involved taking food deions a
bit too literally with a punchline overlay of apparent personal
cluelessness. She was once seemingly caught - almost certainly
intentionally, but not obviously so - casually speculating on the exact
nature of a popular American brand of canned tuna called Chicken of the Sea.
How did they get the chooks to live underwater, she wondered, before putting
them in the can?
It became her signature gag and she has laughed all the way to the bank with
playing it like a thoroughly professional ingenue with a definite edge. It's
the sort of thing that seems to work with fast food, as Paris Hilton proved
recently.
In Simpson's case, a fast food chain engaged her to promote its version of a
fried chicken delicacy, known in America as buffalo wings. The pitch?
Jessica pulling silly faces and making infantile noises in a paddock full of
grazing, disinterested buffalo to try to get the animals to flap their wings
for the cameras. After putting up with that, doing Daisy Duke must have
seemed like Chekhov.
The only time grown-up reality seems to intrude on the charmed, if heavily
merchandised life of Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson, is when her marriage comes up for
discussion. And having sold it to television years ago, it's pretty much
public property now.
She and hubby Lachey, a one-time crooner in a boy band quartet called 98
Degrees, started dating when she was 18. Jessica - whose earring-wearing
father and manager Joe is an ordained Baptist minister - has always
maintained that she was a virgin when they married four years later. If so,
it was unusually restrained behaviour from a pop star; it certainly set the
bar high for any future strayings.
The couple became reality television fodder in 2002 when - presumably as a
shrewd calculation that their careers would benefit more than their marriage
would be trivialised - they opened their post-nuptial lives to television
cameras in the MTV series, Newlyweds. At least they did better than Carmen
Electra and one-time Red Hot Chili Pepper Dave Navarro who, in a similar MTV
series, probably lost whatever street cred they had before it.
"Everybody always asks me how I deal with the rumours about our marriage,"
Simpson says. "You just have to let it roll off your shoulders. I'd be
nervous if they weren't wanting to write about me. And Nick. In some ways,
you just have to look at it as a compliment. No one seems to be suggesting
that we've turned into unattractive people. So you just laugh it off and
hope that your character will prove it wrong."
As the media scrum gets more intense, though, so the marriage rumours get
more lurid.
Apart from her alleged fling with co-star Knoxville, Simpson has been linked
with Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst (who was also linked, before her latest
marriage, to Spears). And Lachey has been accused of "cavorting with
strippers". Even a corporate affiliate of Newlyweds network MTV spoke
recently of a "vigil for their strained relationship".
But perhaps even more troubling - given the role of perceived cluelessness
in riding out various controversies - is the insidious idea that Simpson is
not as clueless as she pretends to be. For this she can partly blame her
mother, Tina, who recently told Vanity Fair that her daughter's IQ was an
impressive 160. Jessica herself confirms the story; except she says her IQ
is 150.
Those Simpsons. They love confusing the issue. Jessica's sister, singer
Ashlee, was recently embroiled in a lip-synching controversy that suggested
she was incapable of learning lyrics.
Now Jessica and her mother are throwing contradictory numbers around about
the star's IQ. If you didn't know they were, like Daisy Duke, simple country
folk, you might think they were trying to confuse the issue.
Which might well be Jessica's recipe for success.
-
Who's that girl, really?
August 22, 2005
The Sun-Herald
Singer and actress Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson and husband, singer Nick Lachey, arrive
at the 13th annual ESPY Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood last month.
Photo: Reuters
She's an enigma wrapped in a riddle; a star who is most famous for asking
dumb questions. But is Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson - singer, actor, empire builder - a
myth of her own making, Phillip McCarthy wonders.
It's not a bad time to be Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson.
It was a canny reality show about life with her equally telegenic spouse
that created her media moment - and the honeymoon is going strong.
But the bottom line Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson question still hasn't been answered: "Is
this girl for real?"
Is she dumb or smart? Acting or singing? Married or divorced? Naughty or
nice? Bubbly or manipulative?
People keep coming back for more. Her movie debut, The Dukes Of Hazzard, hit
the American cineplexes in No. 1 position this month, assuring her of a
Hollywood crossover career. She has two lines of clothing about to hit the
stores and her bath and beauty line already has, as they say, "strong
curiosity interest" in the stores.
Remember, Simpson actually started out as a singer - so it's probably
fitting that her fourth album, to be released later in the year, features a
cover of the Nancy Sinatra hit These Boots Are Made For Walkin'. There's
certainly no evidence that Simpson, with a name more searched on the web
than Britney Spears's, is doing anything less than making really big
strides.
That's not bad for a girl whose distinguishing characteristic has been a
penchant for saying really dumb things. Adorably dumb - and always delivered
with well-meaning sincerity - but not the sort of thing on which multi-media
empires are anchored.
"She made this connection with her reality show back in 2002; people just
sat back and took her in, so the real strength of her celebrity is her
personality," Us Weekly magazine editor in chief Janice Min said. "Yes,
people laughed at her when she came out with some real clunkers. But they
were laughing with her as well because she seemed so natural about it. And
she's always been smart enough to laugh at herself."
It helps, of course, that Simpson is pretty easy on the eye. And in zeroing
in on her first big movie role - in Dukes she plays a drop-dead gorgeous,
and not too smart hillbilly siren called Daisy Duke - she didn't try for
anything she couldn't pull off.
We do know this: Simpson, at 25, is smart enough not to over-reach herself.
When we meet, she's at it again, quite convincingly. She's talking about why
she chose the role despite stiff competition and is wearing a T-shirt with a
picture of the Queen and the word "Anarchy" on it. If you ask her, though,
she says she doesn't know who is pictured.
She goes on to describe how the role played to her strengths and didn't tax
her shortcomings.
"I have, like, 12 lines," she says.
"All I had to do really was talk southern, which is easy if you come from
Texas, bat my eyes a lot, smile pretty much the whole time, and work out
several hours a day so I would look good in my Daisy Dukes. I'll be
interested some day to see myself in a movie where I can't play an
outdoorsy, southern girl. That would be a real challenge. Would it be any
good or not?"
Well, let's not get into that. But in playing Daisy Duke, though, it helps
that the character, if not exactly a fashion plate, has a wardrobe trend
named after her. Those short denim cut-offs that are Daisy's signature look
are now known in the fashion world as Daisy Dukes, in homage to the long,
luscious legs of the original television Daisy Duke, Catherine Bach.
For some reason, the denim hot pants look has long been Hollywood's ideal of
hillbilly chic. In the various film, stage and print versions of Al Capp's
Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae has always worn tight denim (as did Elly May Clampett
in The Beverly Hillbillies).
Predictably, of course, she was linked with one of her Dukes co-stars,
comedian Johnny Knoxville, which on Planet Jessica is a pretty big deal,
although certainly not something that doesn't help create a buzz for her
brand. They both laughed if off, of course. Everyone knows, from several
seasons of the Newlyweds, that Simpson is blissfully wed to another
actor-singer, Nick Lachey.
Hollywood has always loved adorable, ditzy blondes - from Marilyn Monroe to
Goldie Hawn to Drew Barrymore - and it seems endlessly happy to make room
for another, especially now that Meg Ryan has moved on from the field.
But not just any blonde; they have to be, not exactly wholesome, but nice.
And it's pretty well known that Simpson, 25, beat out another young blonde
singer with movie star aspirations for the role of Daisy Duke. That was
Britney Spears and the choice is instructive: Spears is a bit, well, trashy
to be adorable. Another post-Meg blonde with ambition, Brittany Murphy,
failed because her niceness was a bit too limp.
But Simpson may have done the dumb blonde, clueless ingenue thing to excess.
She seemed almost fixated on proving that she's not the brightest bulb in
the socket. Yet she was smart enough to have made it work for her: building
her brand and her bank balance.
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bit too literally with a punchline overlay of apparent personal
cluelessness. She was once seemingly caught - almost certainly
intentionally, but not obviously so - casually speculating on the exact
nature of a popular American brand of canned tuna called Chicken of the Sea.
How did they get the chooks to live underwater, she wondered, before putting
them in the can?
It became her signature gag and she has laughed all the way to the bank with
playing it like a thoroughly professional ingenue with a definite edge. It's
the sort of thing that seems to work with fast food, as Paris Hilton proved
recently.
In Simpson's case, a fast food chain engaged her to promote its version of a
fried chicken delicacy, known in America as buffalo wings. The pitch?
Jessica pulling silly faces and making infantile noises in a paddock full of
grazing, disinterested buffalo to try to get the animals to flap their wings
for the cameras. After putting up with that, doing Daisy Duke must have
seemed like Chekhov.
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