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Bette Davis Eyes Do you have big eyes? Apparently monkeys are really into them. A recent study at the University of Bremen, Germany has found that macaque monkeys have the most brain cell attention focused on the size of the iris of different faces. The more extreme the iris size, the bigger the reaction of the brain cells. There were also 19 other features of the face that different brain cells responded to, but the cells dedicated to eye size were the most numerous. I guess this explains MRirian's huge macaque monkey following on YouTube. [Scientific American]

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Where The Hell Are The Strong Women?

In The Independent today, Johann Hari writes, "Where have all the strong women gone?" Hari gets all nostalgic for Bette Davis: "She was not only a woman; she was an electrical storm with skin. She never pretended to be dumb, or a little girl. She didn't do soft, or simpering. She had a voice like sour cream, and eyes like a raven." But, Hari argues, women on film — and on TV — have weakened. "If the symbol of 1930s Hollywood was Bette Davis in Jezebel, defiantly wearing red to her virgin-white ball, today it is Cameron Diaz in There's Something About Mary, rubbing semen into her hair because she is too dumb to realize it's not hair gel." More »

4:00 PM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Dodai
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Latest by HotNuttyBrownie: I'm late to the party, as per uzhe, but: The Wire cast is male dominated, but has two kick-ass female protagonists in Kima Greggs (also a lezebel!) and Rhonda Pearlman. Even the female "villains" (a bit oversimplified for this show, more »

Gays with letters to mail, rejoice! Bette Davis, star of the film Jezebel (holla!) and, most famously, All About Eve and Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? is the latest American icon to be honored with a first-class postage stamp. The late actress' visage will be available for your bill-posting pleasure in 2008. [Yahoo]

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