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more about #joandidion more comments → Tippi Hedren: It's true, my glamorous lifestyle is a LOT of work. more » MargaretMoony: Heh, I love the Tampax ad. more » hfree: Not to beat a dead horse, but I'm guessing a 1953 size 7 is a size 0 or 2 today, just based on the copy here. more » Aesop's Foibles. YES.: I noticed in #3 it says "Tiny size-seven Tippi". I will refrain from making a sizes have changed joke. I just wanted to point that out. more » curiousgeorgiana: Need the polka dot dress in number 4. Immediately. more » netfe: i was wondering about the earn extra money add in #5. what do you think it is for, and also - do you think it's too late to apply? more » Mary McCarthyite: Is she getting ready for bed in that getup in No. 7? Also, I love the Tampax ad in No. 6. more » Benevolent_Dictatrix (patently absurd): My, how The Perfect Costume for Travel has changed. Now it's all yoga pants all the time. more » Understater: I used to think she was a poor man's Grace Kelly, but Marnie proved me wrong. She was great in that. more » whynotshesaid: I really got into Joan Didion in my mid-20s, right as I was starting journalism school, and she is one of the handful of writers whose style makes app... more » Maggie Glass: I'm going to go ahead and say that I couldn't get into Slouching Toward Bethlehem at all. I found her voice to be sort of self-righteous in a weird wa... more » girlscoutcookie is back from hiatus: I couldn't make it through The Year of Magical Thinking. Couldn't even make it through the first chapter. Too hard. But my mom read it, and our conver... more » girlleastlikelyto: I do look at writers like Didion -- and Munro and Atwood and Le Guin -- as an example of my mother's generation, but it doesn't offer me any insight i... more » hughman: joan didion was one of my writer idols in high school (another was oriana fallaci). i was a gay boy in the south and it was the 70s. needless to say, ... more » Trulymadlyme: I didn't expect to like her writing. In fact, I absolutely hated "Play It As It Lays." But right around the time when I was 28, single, living in the ... more » -
#oldiesbutgoodies
Style Tips From Tippi Hedren's Model Life
The magazine may date from 1953, but the advice (via Modern Mechanix) is timeless. Let's learn from our farmer/model godmother, Tippi, as she juggles the responsibilities of running "from one New York studio appointment to the next" while also...raising horses. More » -
#magicalthinking
Saint Joan: Young Women And The Cult Of Didion
A couple of years ago, my then-boyfriend wrote a piece of erotica about Joan Didion, which fact should go some ways towards explaining both why the relationship lasted as long as it did, and why we were ultimately incompatible: More » -
#dirtbag
More Arrests In Lindsay Burglary; Cross Snorted Coke In Front Of Obama
- The LAPD has arrested four women in connection with break-ins at Lindsay Lohan and Audrina Patridge's homes.
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#dirtbag
Kanye West Headed To Court
- Kanye West has been charged with battery, theft and vandalism stemming from that incident last September in which he smashed a paparazzi's camera at LAX. He's planning a fly courtroom outfit right now. [TMZ, Mirror, Gatecrasher]
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#candicedinsdale
Woman Waives Anonymity To Say, "I Was Raped By My Father."
Candice Dinsdale, now 44, was just six when she was first sexually abused by her father Anthony Allen. Now she's gone public. But should that be so unusual? -
