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Brooke Shields

I led off with this photo (even though it just seems “fuzzy”) because it really captures a lot. I’m guessing she’s about 20 here (15?). This girl caused a lot of trouble for society in the 70s. She made a movie called ‘Pretty Baby‘ (1978) for heaven’s sake, about a 12 year old prostitute. Sure it was creepy. Never seen it myself. For Hollywood it was quite original. Creativity isn’t what Hollywood’s about. Using people, chewing them up and spitting them out, going for the lowest common denominator, that’s what Hollywood’s about. Her mom was taken to society’s woodshed repeatedly. Which is kind of funny when you think about it.

America was shocked to see a 12 year old portray a prostitute. It was all pretend. That’s what Hollywood is, a very expensive game of dress up. A year or 2 later Johnny Gosch and Eugene Martin from Iowa were getting kidnapped for real and forced into a living hell of real life prostitution. Did America get upset about that? Or all the thousands of other kids living a similar hell? No. But play a game of pretend, hold their eyelids open and force them to watch, and society blanches. Societal nimrods.

Right after this movie you can find pictures of an underage Brooke at the ultra swank Studio 54 nightclub. Real life exploitation of a teenager. Did anyone get upset? No. Did they get upset about the abuse of hundreds of other kids in Hollywood? No. That was kept under the rug. They didn’t have to look at that. The “right” people were making money off of that. Brooke was born May 31, 1965. She wouldn’t be 21 until 1986. About the time of the photo above. She’d lived a lifetime by then. I buy very, very few movies for myself. ‘Brenda Starr‘ (1989) is one I’m going to buy. She made that one in 1988 when she was only 23, you would have swore she was in her thirties if you didn’t know better! (Corrections on the Brenda Starr timeline below.)

But like I said earlier, Brooke caused a lot of squirming for society. People don’t like to look at themselves. She made ‘The Blue Lagoon‘ (1979), 13 years old and naked when she made that one. ‘Wanda Nevada‘ (1979), that was a creepy little film once again. Hollywood couldn’t get enough of young Brooke. Bob Hope specials, Calvin Klein ads, “Nothing comes between me and my Calvin’s”. A few years ago I saw her in a very funny commercial (I don’t remember the product but she was funnier that hell), and one thought came to mind. She came off as completely sane. Normal. Balanced. Self-deprecating. Didn’t take herself too seriously.

I remember thinking at the time, I’m glad for her. Despite adults using her her whole life, she used them back. She kept it in context. Realized it was pretend. I hope I get to read her book, ‘There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me‘ (in fact I ordered it just now). Like I said earlier, I really like the lead off photo. Its a “bridge” photo. That period between childhood and adulthood. That just happened to be a little more turbulent than for most kids. Glad she survived.

Next favorite.

1970: American child film actress, Brooke Shields. (Photo by Alan Band/Keystone/Getty Images)

My favorite.

I thought these photos represented a wide range of looks for Brooke. What’s funny is I really like her candid’s. The ‘blue jeans and sweater’ Brooke more than the glamour puss Brooke. Its hard to imagine someone being photographed more than her. She was a big deal 40 years ago. A very big deal. I just saw the movie ‘Brenda Starr‘ a few years ago. It has an absolutely tawdry past! You can see for yourself at the link I provided. It really reminded me of the problems Tom Laughlin had making and releasing the original ‘Billy Jack‘ movie. Tough guy Laughlin found out what it was like to buck the “mob”. Hollywood is run by a mafia, not Italian, Jewish. You can’t say that of course, it would be denied all day long. But it ekes out once in awhile. Like when John Travolta said “Hollywood is run for the benefit of homosexual Jewish men” (And for a few straight ones like Harvey Weinstein, notice how he never spent a day in jail?). Marlon Brando said something similar once. He and Travolta were big enough they could get away with it. Others who blurted out the truth were never heard from again. But as I say, the story of Brenda Starr, filmed in ’86 and not released in the U.S. until ’92 is a fascinating one. Both that one and Billy Jack tried to go outside the studio system. They found out what happens if you don’t give the ‘mob’ their cut. But as I mentioned above, Brenda Starr was so good I was going to buy it. That’s when I found out the legal hell it was in. There is 1 copy of it on Amazon for $716.04. That’s when I knew something was up.

[Finishing up this post I realized just how long and deep Hollywood’s pedophilia roots run. Tatum O’Neal, Linda Blair, Drew Barrymore, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Macaulay Culkin, Brooke Shields and a gazillion others I don’t begin to know about! Reading her book ‘There Was a Little Girl’ has been fascinating. I’m just halfway through. It sounds like she “divorces” her mother at some point. Brooke’s life was forever scarred by her drunk of a Mom. The entertainment industry was actually a stabilizing force, if that gives you an idea about how bad her mother was. But in relation to pedophilia, Brooke seems to have escaped any “me too” lecherous moments. The other thought so far, is how would things have been if she’d had a ‘normal’ mother? In a nurturing relationship?]

10 Most Beautiful Women of the 80s

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The hair! There were way too many women to have combined them like I did earlier into 1 group, the 70s AND 80s. So I split them up. Besides, the feel of the decades were so different. The first 4 years of the 70s (70, 71, 72 & 73) in my mind are linked to the 60s. The post-Watergate years of the 70s were their own and in no way part of the 80s. The 80s struck me as a very superficial decade. Big hair, shoulder pads, spandex, glitter, teen movies. Glitz. MTV was okay back then, they actually played music. I remember the media hated Ronald Reagan. Larry Bird and Magic Johnson were living basketball legends in the 80s. The movies? Very macho, looking back on them. Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger. That generations “Brat Pack” with Molly Ringwald and crew (Good golly, Miss Molly is 51!).

The women here are a fascinating mixture. I’d love to know if there was a book on this group? These aren’t the ‘Oscar Winners’ of Hollywood for the most part. These are the women that looked good in bikinis. Jeans. Tight sweaters. Short dresses. Leotards and tights. These are the women that men dream of. They may not have been tough as leather when they got to Hollywood, but they were by the time they left. They quickly found out Hollywood was going to use them, so they turned the tables and used Hollywood. I have nothing but respect for these women. Ladies if you prefer. The words in the title of this post, “Most Beautiful”, are interchangeable with “Most Sexy”. They knew the game, and they survived it.

They knew what their bargaining chip was for the big screen (or small), and the limited time they had to “get theirs”. Most of them seemed to have retained their humanity, kept themselves sane and are just really topnotch people. In fact as I scroll down through the pictures below, I see only one that might be a barracuda. The rest just seem like really fine people. Virtually everyone of them at their peak ruled the “bombshell” roost. Their popularity for a year, maybe 2 was phenomenal! The posters, the magazine covers, the adulation, they each must have had a very wild ride at one time! They were huge.

Like I said earlier, a book needs to be done on this bunch, “Queens of the Tabloids!” or some such. With nothing but utmost respect intended. The women who won Oscars in the 80s were women like Sally Field, Sissy Spacek, Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Jodie Foster. Fine people no doubt, but not the type that make men’s hearts pound. Its hard to explain but men know what I mean. I’ve done a separate post on Meredith Dawn Salenger, I intend to do separate ones for Brooke Shields, Lydia Cornell and Heather Thomas. I’d really love to dig deeper. To get beyond the façade. And for a good many of these photos I sincerely apologize, they don’t begin to do justice to them.

LOS ANGELES – 1983: Actress Ola Ray poses for a portrait in 1983 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Harry Langdon/Getty Images)

Ola Ray (Thriller)

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Meredith Dawn Salenger

Jennifer Beals

Brooke Shields (There’s a gazillion good shots of her, this one is nice.)

Nia Peeples (I finally found one of her that is worthy! You should see her in 23 Minutes to Sunrise.)

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Lisa Bonet

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Tanya Roberts (To not capture that red hair and blue eyes is a sin.)

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Linda Blair (animal rights activist/actress and all around hottie.)

Justine Bateman – I had a picture of Justine here, but she seemed in her interviews such a fan hating egotist, I couldn’t in good conscience leave it up.

Valerie Bertinelli

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Brigitte Nielsen

Rachel Ward (“Here, let me adjust you”) She’s a bit of an odd duck for me. Of all the beautiful and sexy women on this page she sticks with me the most. Why? I saw a grand total of 1 of her movies (Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid), a couple a dozen photos while researching this post. No interviews or anything. She’s one of those people like Nia Peeples whose eyes are truly a window to the soul, and its a good view. From what I can tell she hasn’t had any “work” done, and that is so cool. She seems so down to earth and sensible.

Lydia Cornell

Molly Ringwald

Joan Jett

Michelle Pfeiffer

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Kathleen Beller (find a picture of her in a swimsuit, unreal) She was on an episode of Barnaby Jones this morning: ‘Run Away to Terror!‘ Great 70s TV! I read up on her at the link above. When I first did this 80s post I completely overlooked her! So did Hollywood in a way. I don’t know how either of us did, one of the strangest stories in Hollywood. She did okay, kept busy. She did 3 years of Dynasty, they wrote her out! How is that even possible?? No woman on that show even came close!

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80s goddess Heather Thomas, not much you can say about that. She comes across as nice, pretty, nothing better than that.

[The photos I used really are a mish mash of photographic failure. 4 of the most epic failures were the ones I was forced to use for Linda Purl, Linda Blair, Meredith Salenger and Lisa Bonet. The one of Valerie Bertinelli really suffered from being scanned into digital. Tanya Roberts I couldn’t get a decent color shot that wasn’t a bikini pic. Such is life. Digital didn’t begin to appear until the nineties. Getty Images buys up the really topnotch ones. The good news is this 80s list is so much more complete than my ridiculous earlier attempt. 21 by the way, not 10. Imagine a big primal scream of ‘Nooooooooo!’ That’s what I felt like when I was going through photos and I’d see a current photo of one of my dream girls and she had undergone the plastic surgery knife. I hate that! Its like women who get boob jobs, you’re beautiful as you are! I realize a woman hits 50, 55, 60, that’s okay. We’d much rather see the natural you, not the stretched, unnatural and sometimes unrecognizable you. The big surprise for me (who started out the decade a young and dumb 21), was Heather Thomas! I knew of her at the time of course, she was everywhere. But little did I even begin to appreciate what an amazing beauty she was. Simply amazing.]

The journey of Meredith Dawn Salenger

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Meredith Salenger, now that’s a woman. I remember watching ‘The Journey of Natty Gann‘ as a kid, and I’m thinking she is going to be one beautiful woman. She was 15 at the time. And that is exactly what happened. Then looking at her IMDB resume, I see a couple of TV movies, some other movies, The Kiss, Dream a Little Dream, then it gets weird. I see some voice over work, some more made for TV movies (a secondary role in Lake Placid for God’s sake!), some indies, some straight to video… I don’t get it? She has the Russian Jewish pedigree made for Hollywood. She has the Harvard degree. She’s beautiful as all get out. Yet she never seemed to have the showbiz career I would have predicted back in ’85. Strange. What do I know? The history of Hollywood is littered with head scratchers. She’s on Twitter and possibly Facebook. She even did a strange/fun little WordPress blog interview with a fan/nut here. Very strange. Some of the pictures are kind of iffy. I picked the best ones I saw. (I suppose a lot of them suffered in the conversion from analog to digital, such was that era. In no way am I dissing on her. Its the over exposure and lack of focus on some.)

In the very strange interview at the link above, Meredith mentions she had no idea the ill effects that going to Harvard for 4 years would have on her career. She said no one in her family was “in the business”, to guide her. It makes you wonder what her manager was thinking? She thought she’d be able to go to college, and have her career take up just where it had left off. She’d graduate and the offers would just come rolling in. 4 years is a long time in the entertainment industry (I don’t think the Spice Girls were together 4 years). I just noticed something from looking at her photos. She’s not the ‘big toothy grin‘ type of bombshell, much more laidback. She definitely did not fit Hollywood’s stereotype of the Heather Thomas/Heather Locklear/Judy Landers beauty queen. Meredith couldn’t turn her brain off and be the mindless social butterfly. The others were just as smart, they were just able to flip a switch. So anyway, I’d go back and read that interview of her on WordPress, its quirky, but it offers some honest insight into her personality. Which is nice. (What’s kind a funny is that of all my posts covering beautiful women for the past 80 years, Meredith is getting the most hits. Bizarre.)

I just realized what happened to her. She had the worst manager of all time! Natty Gann was a real movie. Wholesome, decent plot, good direction. A solid movie. She’d come on to the scene and made a splash. Now what? What do you do next? Crap? Cause its a paycheck? Or do you hold out for something decent? Molly Ringwald at this time fell into some decent stuff. Leader of the ‘Brat Pack’. Candles, Pink, Breakfast Club. Not masterpiece theater but some solid stuff. 25 years later when Jennifer Lawrence was a teen, deciding which way her career was going, had a choice. She didn’t choose crap. She chose Poker House, Winter’s Bone, Burning Plain. Really solid stuff. Meredith when she was a teen chose crap. The Kiss? Dream a Little Dream? Those are 5’ers (not good on IMDB’s ‘10 scale‘). Nobody on her team had any vision. Teen idols don’t last very long, the flavor of the month is very fickle. Ask David Cassidy, Shaun Cassidy and Leif Garrett. Its the difference between building your career on rock or on sand. Meredith’s career was built on sand.

[1/24/21 update: It is the most bizarre thing to see the number of hits roll in every day of horny men lusting over Meredith, okay maybe that’s just me. But for whatever reason men find this obscure outpost about an obscure actress. I mean I’ve done a lot of posts on a lot of beautiful women, and to have this one standout is confusing. I mean come on now, these posts go back roughly 100 years, and the one woman men want to look at most is Meredith Salenger? One of the things I think about with her is the comparison to Brooke Shields. Brooke went to Princeton I believe for 4 years and while she had a career afterwards, it wasn’t the absolute madness of the career she had in the late 70’s and early 80’s. I don’t know if she had more focus or what. Meredith strikes me as a piece of driftwood getting tossed around by the waves, not knowing exactly what she wants.]

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Dance at Bougival

Or ‘Frenchy’ as his friends called him. I like him because he could do people. So many “painters” today just do boring old landscapes devoid of life, like that dead guy on PBS. Its hard for a painting to tell a story without people or animals. The other thing I liked about Renoir was he often used red to set off his main subject. I like red. The other thing he did was introduce me to someone he studied, Titian (Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio. That guy was a painter too, I tell you what). I read Renoir was a soldier in a war with Germany in 1870 along with his friend Frédéric Bazille. A very important war, I’m sure. You remember what it was about don’t you? Why those young men died? Well Renoir survived. Bazille didn’t. Almost makes you wonder what never got painted by the young Bazille. What might he have painted if he had lived another 40 years?

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Clyde Butcher

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Gaskin Bay

So I’m driving through the Florida Everglades (Does anyone else have everglades?) and I catch a glimpse of a sign that says something ‘gallery’ at a little hole in the wall pull off on old US Highway 41. I hit the brakes and backup so I can pull into the parking lot. When I get parked I see the sign said ‘Clyde Butcher Photography Gallery‘. I go inside and its a very nice gallery 20 minutes or so south of Naples. On the wall are these huge black and white prints. I mean huge as in 3 feet by 5 feet huge or more. How the heck is he getting this incredible tonal range and sharpness? He uses an 8 x 10 inch view camera. He also uses 4 x 5 and a panorama camera with a negative plate somewhere around 10 x 20 inch. Nobody uses film anymore. Except this guy and maybe a handful of others. Traditional film and photo paper are the analog response to digital photography. Kind of like the way vinyl records hold on with audiophiles against the onslaught of compact discs. Analog has a range digital simply can’t match. I don’t know what Clyde has available to him in the way of film, paper and developers anymore. ASA 32 FX film, HC110 developer and certain Ilford photo papers could produce some awesome results. I have no idea what tools are left to use in this digital world. But its great to see.

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Land Pirates

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A ‘truth smackdown’. Andy Lee Graham has traveled the world continually for 20 years to 112 different countries (you kind a wonder how he’s never hit the other 90 during all that time). Think about that. He never spends longer than 3 months in one place (the length of a tourist visa). On his blog he sells his travel books and on Amazon he sells his own line of travel gear. I won’t try to cover all his musings, but I will try to convey 2 thoughts of his on Latin America as they confirm exactly what I’ve thought for years. The resulting dysfunctionality of Latin America affects Americans directly through illegal immigration and the crime wave they send us. 13 Americans a day die as a result of illegals or the narcotics they bring in.

In this video (“Ask Andy”) a blog reader asked him to compare Mexico to Ecuador and Argentina to Colombia. Expats look to Andy for a lot of info on where to escape the coming apocalypse in America (some sarcasm). For one thing he points out Colombia’s reputation as a narco state is mostly confined to one state. Another was that Ecuador speaks more of a Cotillón Spanish while Mexico speaks a hillbilly Spanish. I laughed when he said that, I always wondered what the difference was, he explained it in 2 seconds by being honest. Truth bombs cut through the crap.

Andy also explained crime stats. He said Africa pumps up their crime stats because they want to portray themselves as the crimiest and most destitute in order to get aid money from the UN. Which makes sense as Africa is nothing but a welfare continent. Latin America tries to suppress their reputation as a group of lawless nations as they are trying to bring in tourist dollars. Andy, who is no dummy, then explained the roots of this.

“Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador.” Cortez was a Land Pirate, as Andy put it. He raped and pillaged Central America and especially Mexico in the tradition of pirates, and that tradition is carried on to this day by the “leaders” of those countries. Operating on the theory that a country gets the leaders they deserve, Latin America really takes it in the shorts. There is no earthly reason why a land so rich in resources and people can’t function at a self-sustaining level.

A good description of a low-class person is one who never looks beyond today. Someone who never looks ahead, who can’t put off their immediate gratification. What Latin America has managed to elect for generations (when there hasn’t been a military coup d’état), is a succession of ‘land pirates’. Thieves, crooks, swindlers and conmen. Leaders who were never looking towards the future for their people, but only at what they could steal today.

“The reason why multiculturalism exists is to pretend that inferior cultures aren’t inferior and that superior cultures aren’t superior. It’s a way to tell nice lies about rotten cultures and rotten lies about great cultures.” – Bosch Fawstin

So because no one is willing to tell the truth, we get these intergenerational lies where nothing ever gets fixed, nothing ever changes and the corruption never ends. Kind of like Washington. We at least have the pretense of the rule of law, they have nothing. Latin America operates on its own version of ‘trickle down’. They don’t have prosperity that trickles down though, they have graft and corruption that trickles down. The people of those countries know their leaders are screwing them. They know that their employers are screwing them. So the guy you deal with, the desk clerk at the hotel, the waitress at the restaurant, the clerk at the store, they’re fed up with the system too. They take it out on the only one they can; you. The gringo. The tourist.

Now, if anyone ever starts telling the truth, things might start to change. But if they continue to refuse to even acknowledge the problem, there is absolutely no chance in hell of solving the problem.

I tend to trust a guy who’s seen every culture in the world firsthand for 20 years, rather then some idiot egghead telling lies in his quest for grant money. So you end up with a region of the world with about the nicest climate and the most beautiful scenery, that does a very nice rendition of hell on earth. The reason why Andy’s narrative is so effective, is he isn’t overly dramatic or heavy-handed like me, he just tells it like it is.

[After watching some more of his videos, that are ostensibly about travel, I realize he is actually the explorer with the machete hacking his way through life’s jungle. What he ends up talking about is your emotional stability that in the end determines how you deal with life. Your brain power is predetermined, its out of your control. Your physical skillsets are also predetermined. In the end about the only thing you have control over is your own emotions. Your emotions decide how you will apply your talents. And what the ‘land pirates’ do is the worst crime of all, they steal the fruits of those talents. They end up stealing your life essence.]

Ruta Lee!

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Being a boomer, I know good television. Not like that crap they got today. There were several actresses back then who did the round of all the shows. Ruta Lee was a fixture on all of them. Perry Mason, Maverick, Andy Griffith, and my personal favorite, The Virginian. I most recently spotted her on an episode of Gunsmoke. Reading her bio on IMDB was interesting. A Canadian by birth (1935), she graduated Hollywood High School in Los Angeles in 1954. Another thing that surprised me was finding out she was a conservative. For some reason I’m always astounded when a pretty blonde actress type turns out not to be an airhead. That and she always seemed sweet as all get out.

Get off of my lawn!

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Something is occurring in Ames now that reminded me of being out in Omaha a year or two ago. I noticed when we were at an intersection to watch out as people kept turning left through a red light. Just blatantly running a red-light. My go-to Omaha source tells me 4 or 5 cars going left through the red is now the norm. She has been honked at from behind for not running the red! This phenomenon has really taken off here in Ames. Never thought I’d see it. Somebody’s going to get nailed. I suppose its been happening in big cities for decades. Society always breaks down in the cities first, then comes to the rural areas.

Its caused of course by cops not doing their job. Rudy Giuliani demonstrated this in New York with the ‘broken window theory’. He showed that if you didn’t tolerate the little infractions, the big ones took care of themselves. You end up being micromanaged by the city when traffic cameras start springing up everywhere. Then you start seeing people receive tickets for ridiculous infractions. The city will claim, “Oh we have to have these cameras (revenue enhancement) in the interest of public safety!” When of course the real answer is if your city employees the cops had done their job and let scoff laws know this wouldn’t be tolerated, we wouldn’t have this problem.

I see these little societal quirks as indicative of a bigger problem. An overall coarsening of society. It reminds me of the old days when half the population smoked. They would do it in rude and obnoxious ways, and did a lot to get themselves banned to the point where now there is not a bigger social pariah then someone who smokes cigarettes. Every generation likely thinks the world is going to hell in a handbasket as they get older, we’ll have to see if it is truly the big collapse. Or not.

One of the most irritating occurrences for an OCD person like myself, is watching Walmart shopping carts end up 3 or 4 blocks from the store. Abandoned. People just cavalierly steal them. In the same Walmart parking lot you’ll see people dump out their ashtrays onto the ground. Slyly set their drink cup outside their car door before driving away. Take up 2 parking stalls. All manner of rude behavior. Walmart is such a microcosm of society. When people no longer feel the need to do the right thing, when no one is watching, it makes you fear for the survival of self-governance.

As one of our founders said to the effect, “Our limited government is wholly inadequate for an immoral people.”

Self government only works for people who don’t need a nanny state. I think psychologists call it the “assholization” of society. I don’t want to get too technical though. The first trigger was at the credit union when I pulled up to the ATM. I would invariably notice on rainy days that people would leave up the lid on the envelope box so that all the envelopes would get ruined. They got theirs, so to hell with the next guy. Something tells me it doesn’t bode well for a culture when basic human decency is no longer the norm.

Our government of course wants to grow, so they foster the destruction of institutions that made America strong. Authoritarians thrive amongst a weak people.

By parking on and over the line the typical pickup uses 4 parking stalls

The concept of putting trash in the dumpster is too tough for many

My favorite, the “Leave the dirty diaper for someone else” maneuver

This is a favorite on my street on Friday night, the “fast food bag drop”

Normally the lid is left more open

The 10 Most Beautiful Women of the 2000’s

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I lied, there are only 4. And only 1 is an actress. A Danish professional tennis player. A 2008 vice-presidential candidate from Alaska. A pop singer. And the only actress from the decade I noticed. Such is the state of modern television and movies. About the only movies they make anymore are ones that are remakes of duds from 30 years ago. That were themselves remakes of movies from the 20’s or 30’s… Look at the current television lineup, Hawaii 5-0 and Magnum PI for god sakes! (Update: CBS has now remade ‘MacGyver’ also) Its been done! Crack a book and come up with a new idea! What do you get paid for? To copy other people’s work??

But I’ll put these 4 women up against the women of any decade. In the other decades a clear favorite of the bunch always stood out, not with these 4. All 4 are the stuff dreams are made of. I was going to say an athlete, a politician, a singer and an actor, but Sarah Palin was actually a college level basketball player herself. And Pink was a gymnast, so 3 jocks. And, Sarah Palin can also clean a fish. Television is so noxious and vacuous it eliminates any entrants to this group save Bowen. It gets worse next decade, I can only think of 1!

This is an interesting group in a couple of ways. If you look at Caroline, Sarah and Pink these are 3 very healthy and athletic women. And Julie at times looks very fit, other times going from slender to skinny. This fantastic four I realize have another distinction, they embody the concept of Warrior Women. They have embraced and beat hardship and adversity to varying degrees. I think it says something, I’m not sure what, but it says something.

Caroline Wozniacki

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Julie Bowen

Caroline Wozniacki

Sarah Palin

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Julie Bowen

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Sarah Palin

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Julie Bowen (that to me, is a really beautiful woman)

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Women of the 60’s

Women of the 40’s & 50’s

Women of the 2010’s

The 10 Most Beautiful Women of the 90’s

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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.

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Denise Richards

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

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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

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