10 4 very beautiful women. So many thoughts. Photoshop had come into vogue in the 90’s, replacing the airbrushing and touchup paints of earlier generations. 10 4 perfect women. The lighting, pedestrian. The backdrops, lackluster. The costumes, not bad. Lip injections and breast implants have enhanced this generation of beauties. The photography from an earlier post on the 1940’s and 1950’s blows this bunch out of the water (the photographers, not the women). Hollywood during the Golden Age knew how to shoot a glamour shot hands down. Being a bit of a photo editor I chose images that were unique but served the purpose. I purposely skipped the more overblown / bra-busting cleavage shots that typify the crassness of modern photography. Most of modern photography appears to be a digital wasteland. It reads like a high school yearbook.

What’s really crazy, is the feeling you get that the top 4 women are just really nice. I’ll have to look into that. I know just who to ask. And the top 2 you get the feeling they roll out of bed looking fantabulous, without any war paint. And the top one makes you realize Jesse James is clearly the dumbest man on the planet (more Sandra). I didn’t think I was going to be able to come up with 10 women from the decade, and I didn’t. Just 7 4. I can’t imagine coming up with 10 from the 2000’s, I think I’ll start branching out to sports and singers. For the 2010’s I think I’ll just put up a picture of Lacey Chabert and call it good.

And then it occurred to me, it isn’t just the modern photographer that sucks, but its also the modern movie that sucks. I’ve never had it so crystalized as between these 2 posts half a century apart. I can name movies from the 40’s and 50’s when I wasn’t even alive.  I can’t name more than 2 from the nineties. The modern movie is set to entertain the typical 12 year old boy. With various computer generated graphics of an assortment of comic book characters jumping about the screen. (Theaters have become an “adults not wanted” area.) Movies back then were ones you could sink your teeth into. A House un-American Affairs Committee could have a field day with this bunch.  Unfortunately the more debased Hollywood becomes, it simply reflects a more dysfunctional America.

One thing that hasn’t changed, is the Hollywood culture. The majority in the industry still appear to be insecure people going through life at various degrees of altered states. Another thing that hasn’t changed is the beauty of the women. This generation gives nothing away to the Golden Age. I’m guessing most guys figured out what I did by putting the sweet girls at the top and the bitches not so sweet at the bottom. In no way could I deny their amazing beauty based solely on their personality or politics. In previous generations they were perhaps smarter to keep their politics to themselves and let their screen work do the talking. I took out all the clunkers, I got tired of hearing about their politics.

Sandra Bullock

Denise Richards

Sheree J Wilson – here’s to skinny blondes with freckles!

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Perhaps one of the more bizarre stories is that of Michelle Pfeiffer. Reading her bio on IMDB reads like a list of what ‘could have been’. She was considered for this, she turned down that. I like watching a good looking blonde in a movie, but the only thing I could tell you she ever made was a comic book thriller episode of Batman. She seems mostly famous for being beautiful.

On a lighthearted note on all these posts they breakdown evenly between blondes and brunettes (except the 70’s/80’s which had 8 brunettes). I also chose 11 women for this Top 10 post. I can’t imagine a more boring bunch of photos than these. True an outsider doesn’t have access to the ‘good’ ones, but I did look through a lot of photos. One aspect of digital photography I’ve noticed since being in it from the start in ’93, is they take a ton of images. There’s no cost. In the old days you got it right the first time because you were burning film and developer costs. Sure the pros burned a lot of film, but not even close to today. They might as well be taking video.

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“Sandra Bullock is a genuine sweet person. My sister and I had dinner at her restaurant a few months back. She sat down and chatted with us for a few minutes as if we were old friends.”
—Anonymous

Named the Most Beautiful Woman in the World of 2015 by People magazine. Bullock’s response: “That’s just silly.”

Why Sandra Bullock may just be the most likable person in Hollywood

Women of the 2000’s                                Women of the 90’s

Women of the 70’s                        Women of the 60’s

Women of the 40’s & 50’s

Women of the 80’s

Women of the 2010’s