Love, Death and Drama Queens....
- 12 Feb 07, 03:26 PM
I have been knee deep in love all weekend ¨C in a purely professional capacity you understand. First it was my favourite combination of love and chocolate on The Saturday Magazine, followed by love at first sight in Just One Look. But even if I΅―d been on love island, the love boat or in love on the Star Ship Enterprise I could not have failed to see the acres of newsprint devoted to the death of Anna Nicole Smith.
I keep on having these conversations with people along the lines of ΅°Isn΅―t it awful about poor Anna Nicole Smith?΅± or ΅°Didn΅―t she have the most tragic life?΅± Of course the answer is yes and yes, but why is it that we never speak ill of the dead but tear the living limb from limb? I do it myself so I know what I΅―m talking about, but in a week she has gone from a cheap joke to a tragic icon, and I΅―ve lost count of the number of times I΅―ve seen her compared to Marilyn Monroe.
She was the girl from the wrong side of the tracks who, with her ample cleavage and bombshell blonde coiffure, moved along the time honoured path of beauty queen, playmate and ΅®actress΅―. She married a billionaire 60 years her senior and was branded a gold digger. But what΅―s so wrong with that? Successful men have been buying women since the beginning of time. Don΅―t look so shocked, you know it΅―s true. It΅―s just that society likes to add a veneer of respectability. It calls them trophy wives and every successful tycoon has one, updated for a new model, in this case literally, every few years.
If she΅―d been a man she would have been slapped on the back, congratulated on making the most of her god given assets and in rising from her humble origins. She would have been hailed like a Trump, not like a tramp. But that΅―s never been the way it is for women and it probably never will be. It seems only death can redeem a good time girl's bad reputation.
From one extreme to the other, and a woman on top of the world. Having watched the BAFTAs there is no doubt that queen of the night in every way was Helen Mirren. Not only did she win the award for Best Actress but she was also a winner in the style stakes. Looking gorgeous and glamorous, the sexy 61 year old knocked spots off actresses half her age, although Sienna Millar, who last grabbed the fashion headlines for going out in what could only be described as a pair of black gym knickers and tights, also looked ravishing in a backless gown which only the very young and the very thin could get away with.
Mind you, Bond Girl Eva Green is both of those things and still looked a perfect fright. Apparently her dress was vintage Dior, but her hair was pure bird΅―s nest. It looked like she was attempting that classic fin de siecle look you get in a Gustav Klimt painting, but ultimately she looked more like the long lost sister of Marge Simpson. As for Kylie΅.somebody needs to tell her that the last days of disco are definitely over. But then, she has had a hard few weeks, what with her French love rat and everything and maybe she thought if she looked bright and glitzy on the outside΅.maybe not. Kylie girl, in my experience, chocolate is the cure for a broken heart.
And so we΅―re back where we started!
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