@MaBell: @KelseyElle: Look at the size of her wrist and her upper arm. Especially the one on the left. It also seems that the one on the left and the one on the right are the same size even though half of the one on the right is in shadow. Something fishy is going on here. The proportions are just off and her head looks huge like a Bratz doll.
@DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton: This is definitely not body snarking but saying that she was oddly photoshopped. There is a lack of shadow that is telling she was shopped. Jez does this all the time ala photoshop of horrors.
@Pandorasvoicebox: Oh I know that, but I'm still going with her arms are photoshopped here. There's not only a lack of upper arm here, but also they look shorter. The proportion is off and not natural. Something strange has been done to the pic.
@Little Time Bomb: oh c'mon, that is such a weak excuse. i'm sure that's why she modeled for a bridal magazine and gave all the details of her wedding as well.
i love christina like the next person, but a famewhore she is.
@femme-bot: ok, now you're just being disingenuous. allowing a magazine to photograph a private holiday party is different than showing up on a red carpet promoting a project.
@femme-bot: I love you for that. I thought the same thing. This drink sounds like what would happen if I ate pumpkin pie and drank a few too many martinis. Bleh.
Joy wrote clever copy for everything from cosmetics to beer snacks, found her true voice writing funny radio ads (e.g, Laughing Cow Cheese) and worked her butt off raising two daughters. I should know. I'm one of them and I'm so proud of her.
This makes me weirdly misty eyed/ optimistic in regards to the future of our dearest Peggy. Although she kicks ass in most ways, I often fear that she's on the path to lonesome town. However, if she grows up to be like this lady, things are looking sweet.
I think there's something very wrong with the fact that I'm jealous of Peggy's work situation. Yes, there are so many obstacles in the way of her upward mobility, but *there is the possibility of upward mobility*. I just don't feel that's the case anymore.
@redqueenmeg: One of the more subtle portrayals in Mad Men is the "corporatising"of the work place structure.
In season three the accounts men suddenly realise there is no "up" anymore. The best they'll ever get is middle management, with the new owners forever holding the gates to partnership... something that was the be all and end all of their careers 12 months ago no longer exists for these guys.
@aericks: At least for people in my area and age group, it's cause the boomers are in middle and upper management, they hang on until retirement or even later, and then there are so few Gen-Xers that nobody thinks of us, so when they need a replacement they go straight to a Y or Milliennial because they have the "New Vision."
So, interesting 60's anecdote: my maternal grandmother worked her way up from secretary to pricing negotiator for a major aviation company from the 50's through the 80's. When she first began, there were extra reams of paper in order to re-type all the contracts which had been ruined by spilled alcohol and cigarette burns. There was also an office fund and in-house runner solely for dry cleaning, to cover up everything from spilled martinis to lipstick on shirt collars, to......bodily fluid stains, and my grandmother was in charge of providing the executives with a fresh shirt/pants, while she took their soiled ones to be cleaned.
@NerD: Blattella: Oh, I'll definitely have to check it out. I just looked up the synopsis, and see it's listed as a romance, a comedy, and a drama--a formula that could be great or go terribly wrong.
Hahah she rocks my world! I have to say, not that it's important or anything, but she looks absolutely fantastic, I would have never guessed that she is 79! Love the haircut.
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i love christina like the next person, but a famewhore she is.
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