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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on September 10, 2008, 09:19:43 AM
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The front page of the Daily Mirror today is devoted to one major issue. The headlines are two inches deep. I'm not sure how to break this to you but here goes.....Victoria Beckham has had a haircut. According to the story, it's "literally the biggest thing to happen in hair since the Moss Fringe of '07". Helpfully, there are two more pages inside the paper to explain why. One breathless commentator opens with "OMG this is MASSIVE!"
And here was me worrying about today's experiment to recreate the "Big Bang" which formed the universe.
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What, ALL her hair? I do hope she's recovering well. I haven't got a paper yet, but I'll pick one up later.
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What, ALL her hair?
No! Only the hair on her head.
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And here was me worrying about today's experiment to recreate the "Big Bang" which formed the universe.
I think you'll find they are not actually trying to create another Big Bang and another universe. I'd stick to hair styles: you seem to understand those.
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That's what the Daily Mirror said they were doing.
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Two things: you believed them? the Daily Mirror?
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The front page of the Daily Mirror today is devoted to one major issue. The headlines are two inches deep. I'm not sure how to break this to you but here goes.....Victoria Beckham has had a haircut. According to the story, it's "literally the biggest thing to happen in hair since the Moss Fringe of '07". Helpfully, there are two more pages inside the paper to explain why. One breathless commentator opens with "OMG this is MASSIVE!"
And here was me worrying about today's experiment to recreate the "Big Bang" which formed the universe.
Roger, old boy, it pains me to say this, but I'm with Mince on this one.
She looks lovely, doesn't she? I'd get one myself, but my bone structure lets me down in that department.
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The front page of the Daily Mirror today is devoted to one major issue. The headlines are two inches deep. I'm not sure how to break this to you but here goes.....Victoria Beckham has had a haircut. According to the story, it's "literally the biggest thing to happen in hair since the Moss Fringe of '07". Helpfully, there are two more pages inside the paper to explain why. One breathless commentator opens with "OMG this is MASSIVE!"
And here was me worrying about today's experiment to recreate the "Big Bang" which formed the universe.
Roger, old boy, it pains me to say this, but I'm with Mince on this one.
She looks lovely, doesn't she? I'd get one myself, but my bone structure lets me down in that department.
You don't have to have specific bone-structure to get a Daily Mirror on this island.
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Thank God for you lot! Having just endured the most boring 24 hours of flights I've ever been on (perhaps it was the contrast to the flights going to the UK) I needed a good laugh!
Didn't need cheering up - seeing my family again did that, but I had people sitting next to me on both flights who said about twelve words to me in total and that (as anyone who knows me will tell you) was torture for me! Harrison Ford, Patrick Dempsey and George Clooney didn't quite make up for it - maybe if they'd been there in person instead of on the screen.
A friend of mine was at the World Cup with her husband, who was attached to the Aussie team, so she got to mingle with the "in set". When I asked her if they (she had a friend with her) got to talk to Posh, etc, she said, "God no, we avoided the lettuce leaf brigade like the plague!" - seems they would have starved if they'd socialised with them. These are not girls who eat a lot either!
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And here was me worrying about today's experiment to recreate the "Big Bang" which formed the universe.
I think you'll find they are not actually trying to create another Big Bang and another universe. I'd stick to hair styles: you seem to understand those.
Maybe not, but we might all have ended up in a Black Hole and then Posh's haircut would have been meaningless, although just a bit less of her to drag in. ;)
PS, I'm having a go at the Dalwhinnie in an attempt to get rid of the jetlag - I'll be good tomorrow, I promise!
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If the LHC destroys the world, I promise I'll buy all of you here a drink. And a house. And a gigantic singing dolphin.
As for the haircut... I'm not an expert, but it appears to me to be remarkably similar to the haircut thousands of other people have had for many years?
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to sit and contemplate why I've even bothered attempting to contribute to a discussion of celebrity hairstyles. I feel unclean. Is this what it's like working for a tabloid newspaper?
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If the LHC destroys the world, I promise I'll buy all of you here a drink. And a house. And a gigantic singing dolphin.
Cop out!
As for the haircut... I'm not an expert, but it appears to me to be remarkably similar to the haircut thousands of other people have had for many years?
True ...
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to sit and contemplate why I've even bothered attempting to contribute to a discussion of celebrity hairstyles. I feel unclean. Is this what it's like working for a tabloid newspaper?
Well? Tell us you lot. Is it?
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As for the haircut... I'm not an expert, but it appears to me to be remarkably similar to the haircut thousands of other people have had for many years?
Yes, it is.
I'm puzzled. Why is Victoria Beckham considered a fashion/beauty "icon?"
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As for the haircut... I'm not an expert, but it appears to me to be remarkably similar to the haircut thousands of other people have had for many years?
Yes, it is.
I'm puzzled. Why is Victoria Beckham considered a fashion/beauty "icon?"
Because it's there.
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And here was me worrying about today's experiment to recreate the "Big Bang" which formed the universe.
I think you'll find they are not actually trying to create another Big Bang and another universe. I'd stick to hair styles: you seem to understand those.
The headline on B.B.C. ceefax says "experts recreate 'big bang' ." Get on to them, Mincey! THEY'RE WRONG AS WELL!
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I do enjoy a Big Bang.
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I do enjoy a Big Bang.
I've forgotten......
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I do enjoy a Big Bang.
I've forgotten......
what you forgot
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I do enjoy a Big Bang.
I've forgotten......
Understandable - it was about 13.73 billion years ago.
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For those of you unlucky enough to miss today's Mirror:
(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk284/nomad2010/15096363.jpg)
But at least the Star tucked it away in the corner to concentrate on the real news :
(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk284/nomad2010/15096364.jpg)
Sigh indeed
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I am so proud to work with the quality press.
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Taken from a catty columnist in the Sun I think.. Victoria Beckham set the trend with the figure of a small boy.. now she has a haircut to match.
I just don't see it. not the haircut, not the fashion or God help me, even the body. A nobody from a piss poor girl band (they didn't even let her sing) who married a relatively talented but hard of thinking footballer.
It's the cult of celebrity I can't stand to be honest, I buy the Star to read the Peep strip (I read it to Kate every morning for eight years) and for the last AGE it's been full of who is doing what to whom in Big Brother.
These people are now deemed to be celebrities because they managed to stay in a house for a few weeks...... why?
Now they will make a zillion pounds and never be out of the papers, because....... for what? They got drunk? Shagged another loser, split from another loser?
So from now on, I'm only buying the Daily Mail, but only because I need to be put into a state of fear and alarm while I eat my cornflakes (if I ate cornflakes).
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Naughty Roger! You never told us about Naomi's day in a soup-kitchen...
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And here was me worrying about today's experiment to recreate the "Big Bang" which formed the universe.
I think you'll find they are not actually trying to create another Big Bang and another universe. I'd stick to hair styles: you seem to understand those.
The headline on B.B.C. ceefax says "experts recreate 'big bang' ." Get on to them, Mincey! THEY'RE WRONG AS WELL!
In all fairness, they are. But then "Holy crap, they're making another Big Bang!" probably sells better than "Oh my goodness, they're simulating how the conditions were a bit after the Big Bang!"
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I'm not worried about the cult of celebrity being there, I'm worried that it's getting worse.
In the past, the womens mags carried major stories about royals to the exclusion of everything else. Princess Margaret was a "managed" royal, in other words she was controversial, but mostly beyond real criticism, as she was kept from the press (the isle of Mustique apart).
There was the occasional bit of tat about Liz Taylor, but PR people in those days were employed by big studios, not the stars themselves, and photographers were employed by specific mags. The deal was that if you went to town in a bad way on one star, the studio would block your paper's access to all the others.
Lady Di was the one who really pushed the stupidity boat out. independent paparazzi from the UK and Europe had started to realise that they could make huge money covering her alone. It all went to sh*t when she became engaged to Charles and it got worse until she tragically died. In fact it carried on well after that because of the manner of her death.
Now paparazzi, fluf and puff pieces, as well as C and D-list celebrity are facts of life. Womens mags abound in newsagents, there seem to be fifty times what there were in the 70s, and there is also the growing phenomenon of the feminization of TV.
Pick through the garbage on cable or prime time and think of how many TV programmes are aimed almost exclusively at women. Gardening makeovers, house makeovers, plastic surgery makeovers, Rosemary and Thyme, Midsomer Murders, Medium, the Hallmark channel, Dog Whisperer, John Edwards, Oprah, breakfast shows, and many more.
They're womens magazines in TV form. Each show (like the "lists" we mentioned earlier) is merely a traditional womens mag feature writ large and broadcast for half an hour.
I'm waiting for another corner of the womens magazines to be plundered and turned into a show.
How about "Spot The Difference" or "Odd Man Out"? remember those two almost identical pics where eight changes had been made from Pic 1?
I wonder what other traditional womens mag fare could be turned into TV? You can bet your boots the network execs are already doing it.
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Can't argue with any of that, Malc, but the one word counter from the female side is "SPORT!".
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I wonder what other traditional womens mag fare could be turned into TV? You can bet your boots the network execs are already doing it.
"Sex and the City" was based on a column in the NY Star, I think. Watching the program was sort of like reading an issue of Cosmo. I liked "Sex and the City" because it was smart, witty and funny.
As far as Victoria Beckham is concerned, when she arrived in America most here had no idea who she was. Although the press has tried to force her on us as some sort of "icon" and "beauty" (?), she has not made much of a splash here. And why is she so sour-looking all the time?
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I think you answered your own question immediately before you asked it, Calypso.
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Calypso, I share your bemusement totally.
Victoria Beckham was the worst looking in a very ordinary looking, talentless girl band. Why David Beckham was so smitten with her is inexplicable.
To me, the stunning beauties of today are Sophie Monk (she's also a former talentless girl band member who's gravitated to bad movies), Angelina Jolie, Liv Tyler, Anne Hathaway, etc...
Posh Beckham is a skinny, unattractive wee nyaff (to use a Scottish term).
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Malc:
Calypso, I share your bemusement totally.
Victoria Beckham was the worst looking in a very ordinary looking, talentless girl band. Why David Beckham was so smitten with her is inexplicable.
I'm sure she has talents we can't see.
Posh Beckham is a skinny, unattractive wee nyaff (to use a Scottish term).
I'm so glad you said that. If I'd said it I might be accused of being jealous or something.
To me, the stunning beauties of today are Sophie Monk (she's also a former talentless girl band member who's gravitated to bad movies), Angelina Jolie, Liv Tyler, Anne Hathaway, etc...
I work in the beauty/fashion industry and some of my picks, besides yours, include Charlize Theron, Halle Berry, Michelle Pfeiffer, Aishwarya Ray (or however it's spelled), Isabelle Adjani and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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Yep, I agree with all those.
What it boils down to (when you reduce beauty to basics) is symmetry and proportion.
I studied this stuff as a young artist, because it's important for cartoonists to know.
I was intrigued as to why some people were deemed good looking by most of the population and some were not.
In cartooning, the slightest movement of a mouth or eyes changes an expression, or a character totally.
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I'm a regional makeup artist, Malc, for an international cosmetics company (or I was until very recent budget cuts and restructuring eliminated my position). Symmetry and proportion are what I have to try and create on a person and not make it look so obvious and fake. The goal is to enhance and conceal but keep it subtle and natural-looking. I think my job is basically shit. I had a client not long ago who was a portrait artist. She told me that the techniques I was using were like what she did when she painted a portrait. I was even using colors to enhance features the way she said she did. I had not looked at my job that way. Go figure.
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If I was a regional make-up artist, I'd just do the left cheekbone.
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If I was a regional make-up artist, I'd just do the left cheekbone.
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