Oscar Night- Keeping it real

[solicitr]

that lovely lady is not "fat" - she is pleasantly rounded. You can't count her ribs, and her hipbones don't protrude.

Bingo.

For Marilyn Monroe one could substitute in Liz Taylor circa Butterfield 8, before she went all Brando.

[Padme]

I think Kate Winslet is far prettier than Paris Hilton. And I think Penelope Cruz is far prettier than Nicole Ritchie.

[Frelga]

Although I would question whether being overweight has ever been considered particularly attractive

One word: Rubenesque.

Clickie

ETA: On the breeding issue: a Russian literary critic commented that a peasant woman was sought after by the suitors if she was tall, broad-hipped, broad-boned, with large hands and feet, in short healthy and adapted to work and child bearing. In contrast, gentlewomen were bred to be essentially man toys - small, fragile, pale and helpless.

Of course once the working class shifted to the factories, tan became the upper-class thing, the new sign of leisure.

[River]

This seems appropriate for the turn this thread has taken: Thin Is Not In at Paris Fashion Week.

Yes, these curvy models are still very slim. But they have actual cleavage. Isn't that nice?

[WampusCat]

I'd like it better if they would smile. Why must the models always look so grim?

[River]

Because strutting around in designer clothes is Serious Business.

Seriously though, you're asking a lot. They've just barely woken up to the fact that real women have curves. If you start demanding smiles the whole fashion industry might just implode and then where would we be?

[vison]

The models are meant to be clothesracks and nothing more. They are objects on the runway. Generally speaking, they are not "cover girls".

[Primula Baggins]

Hey, you won't know how much you need to see this until after you've seen it, but seriously, you need to see this.

Trailer for the Eleventh Best Picture Nominee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFicqklGuB0

[WampusCat]

Appreciative laugh.

[Primula Baggins]

Pithy comment with ironic smile.

[tinwë]

Non sequitur reference to medieval seige engines.

[Primula Baggins]

Deeply concerned interventional remark hinting at disturbing absence of glazed breakfast items.