Last night saw the series premiere of TLC's Miss America: Countdown to the Crown, an effort to both attract the much-desired younger female demo and create interest in the beleaguered beauty pageant.
Would You Get "Botox For The Résumé"?
"Who would ever dream that '20-plus years of experience' would be a liability? These are strange times." That's Lisa Johnson Mandell, a journalist who lives in LA and should know better than to say something like that, but anyway she stopped getting work around her late forties, and she didn't know why, until her…
Dear Models Of The World: Are We All Too Busy Starving Ourselves To…
Modeling. I'll be honest: I didn't really give much of a shit about the plight of its willowy practitioners before I met Tatiana. Now, Tatiana's going to be okay: she's doing this to travel and learn and meet the sort of people you wouldn't meet performing the other types of slave labor to which educated young…
Five New Job Titles That Are Corporate Code For "Hot Girl"
This will shock you, but apparently some women get jobs at hedge funds solely on the basis that they are hot. "You meet these bimbos and they say, ‘Oh, I work at a hedge fund,' and you think, What?!?" one "head of an investment bank who pals around with high net worth investors" tells W Magazine. "And then you realize, Oh,…
A Brief History Of Stewardess Porn…
Would you believe if I told you that in some regions of the world stewardesses are sort of expected to be SEX SYMBOLS? Well, Air India just grounded some flight attendants on charges of being FAT. ONLY IN INDIA, right? Wrong! As you'll learn if you click the picture, sexist policies w/r/t flight attending have a long…
American Apparel CEO Orders Subordinate To Pleasure Herself; She…
Perhaps you've heard enough out of American Apparel Chief Executive Onanist Dov Charney. He masturbated in front of a reporter, sleeps with his employees, promotes hot 17-year-olds to replace veterans, took himself public in one of the shadiest entries to the public markets in the history of financial engineering, told …
Girl Scout Robber Stefanie Woods: Sociopath? Or Helpless Victim Of The …
Stefanie Woods is a photogenic 18-year-old whose crime spree has captivated idyllic Palm Beach. If Law & Order taught me anything it's that she's also a sociopath. But see if you think I'm giving humanity too much credit: it all started when Woods, a part-time model, started chatting up a nine-year-old Girl Scout…
