@hortense: same here. I feel like 5 women stitting at a table, talking over eachother, at times screaming nonesensically does nothing to put down perpetuated stereotypes of the Sewing Circle
@hortense: Exactly. Last summer, my mom's friend got tickets to see a taping, and took my mom. Apparently, while they were in the audience, the woman sitting behind my mother was approached by a producer and was asked, "Hey, do you want to come back next week for a make-over? We're looking for women with bad hair and we promise we won't say anything about your weight." And that's just the behind-the-scenes nonsense. The show's on air cattiness, self-righteousness and general vapidity are self-evident enough.
@ATull: I think it feeds into a lot of negative stereotypes, and that the conversation doesn't represent what it is meant to represent--a wide array of voices from women of different political, cultural, and economic backgrounds. It is presented as a forum for real discussion, but it ALWAYS ends up with 5 women talking over one another incessantly. Everyone talks, nobody listens. There's no actual discourse going on.
@hortense: It's pretty much just the TV version of a woman's mag anyway. They devote a small amount of time to world events, the rest of it is celebrity gossip/interviews, fashion, beauty products and diet information.
@lavenderstain: Yeah, it's hard to watch and listen to when all you hear is five voices talking all at once. I love Joy but I see your point. I occasionally watch her show on HLN and I don't know if she's just used to The View's "Ask Guest a Question, Cut Them Off Before They Can Answer" format but she seems to interrupt her guests and veer off-topic quite often.
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her immense potential as
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Drew Barrymore and her relentless avalanche of twee "I'm relatable" bullshit always seems desperate to me. Which is a shame because she's one of the few people actually working on raising the profile of women in Hollywood so really I should be one of her allies.
@PaigeTurner: I foresee a young Suri Cruise making appearances towards the end of the decade. That child is gorgeous and will no doubt find her way into acting or modeling in some capacity.
Usually, I am not a big fan of Angelina Jolie, or a fan of her hype, but I love, love that Vogue cover. It's so restrained and uncontrived--which cannot be said of most of their recent covers.
Halle Berry's InStyle cover mentions Matt LeBlanc in the "What's Sexy Now" headline. Oh, how times change.
I admit I never would have guessed Drew but it makes me inexplicably happy. The Nicole Kidman magazine love was at its craziest when she was on the cover of Vogue twice in nine months back in '03-'04.
@DutchessOfDork: The latter one looks like when Liz Lemon was on HDTV. They must've had a bad photoshopper on duty that day to make someone that gorgeous look so odd.
*tears* I miss Jane! And Sassy. Number one was surprising. I expected it to be either Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston, but I guess they're just queens of the tabloids. I am disappointed that Jessica Simpson made this list because her face never, ever changes.
@Triana Orpheus: Omg, I miss Jane so much! WHY did they have to take it out of circulation? It was the only redeeming factor about going to the airport, I would get excited going to the magazine stand.
@Triana Orpheus: I was so sad when Jane went out of circulation, and then furious when they changed my subscription over to Lucky. I HATE Lucky so so so much.
@sonjamikail: You know, I actually like Lucky. You know right off the bat what you're getting and you don't have to read any bullshit to get to it. Yes, it advertises products at a standard most Americans can only dream of reaching, but I have noticed that lately they've been putting some cheaper products in there.
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her immense potential as
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But I just can't.
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Really surprised by Renee Z.'s total. Does she have a secret cult following?
Any guesses for the next decade's top cover models?
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I admit I never would have guessed Drew but it makes me inexplicably happy. The Nicole Kidman magazine love was at its craziest when she was on the cover of Vogue twice in nine months back in '03-'04.
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Er, I mean actresses/models.
Or actresses that look like models.
Or actresses that have to also be models to sell their movies.
Someone remind me, what are those ANTM contestants vying for again?
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