America's Next Top Model

[poliphilo]

I hadn't realised modelling is such hard work. No I'm not being ironic here; it is, it is.

And I'm no longer surprised that so many models progress into acting. The two disciplines are right next door to each other.

Beauty is not enough. Beautiful girls are ten a penny.

The camera falls in love with the oddest people.

The merely beautiful have fallen by the wayside, but the chunky little lesbian with the chipmunk face is still there. She has a grain of whatever it is that Tyra Banks has in bagfulls. You can't dismiss her.

I love it that Twiggy's on the panel. So unaffected, so real.

"I was the first working-class model," she says.

"Over here we don't say working-class, we say ghetto," says one of the waspy queens.

O, go away, you silly person; don't you know that you're in The Presence?

Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Beautiful girls are ten a penny.

Hey, wait - does that mean I have the beauty of ten girls? Wicked! ;)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

But of course....

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I see what you mean.

Twiggy never said anything memorable, but it was just so wonderful to have her there. And when it came to the judging, you could see that she had very strong, forthright opinions.

[paroxysma.livejournal.com]

Bah! I thought Edie Sedgwick was just right lovely and fantastic! Warhol robbed her of her money. Saddens me.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I just googled Edie and it seems Dylan had a thang with her and then it turned bad and he wrote Leopardskin Pillbox Hat (which is a mean song) with her in mind. I never knew that before.

[paroxysma.livejournal.com]

Indeed. She'd been pretty much burnt her entire life you could say.