Oh please. I like Juliette Binoche - but she doesn't have the eyes, the sheer physical gorgeousness.

Agreed. I am thinking, perhaps someone like Catherine Zeta-Jones, only less - merry?

"Blanda Eggenschwiler"? Really? Are we sure this a real girlfriend and not imaginary?

I chose the word creepy, because both the actresses tend to give off this vibe which they perhaps think is alluring and otherworldly and i-am-on-a-higher-plane-than-you-mere-mortals, and I find that distasteful.

Love the hair-do. Reminds me of old photos of my mother with an exactly similar hair cut. In fact, now I feel like letting mine grow out to that- but I'm afraid it will awful on a day-to-day basis- make me look like a lion.

She's too much caught up in being actressy than acting. What Meryl Streep does after a lifetime of acting, she is doing now, and she gets away with it because of her conventional good looks.

With no detailed information on the Malawi school issue beyond what occasionally filters through popular media, I would vote for the latter as well, I'm with Eunice Kazembe on this one. That Madonna is self-aggrandizing is certainly no surprise- witness her whole career. Then there's a slowly growing body of academic…

But you could say that about every single celebrity. The amount of talent and art they offer the public has absolutely zero correlation with the adoration and prizes they win. Every single celebrity is overrated, IMO. For some, the lack of correlation is even more mind-boggling (eg Chris Brown), for others, it is only…

>It's normal to obsessively cyberstalk your ex.

Just came to here to say- many times during the past 15 yrs or so I've thought she was simply the most beautiful celebrity around, in both music and films. And those pics up there simply prove my point. Though maybe KK is giving her a run for her money.

I find this depressing as hell. No matter time, place, country, ethnicity, whatever, women are expected to undergo torture for the sake of attracting a lover. I am reminded of certain passages of The Women's Room, by Marilyn French, where she just goes on and on hysterically about all that women have historically…

Different, and still sucky for women. It still sucks big time to see that no matter the culture, tool or instruments, women are prepared to / expected to undergo sheer torture in order to attract a lover. Gah.

OMG I was blogging about this topic only recently.

Mine is to stop wasting so much time on the internet.

That Christian apologist from Belfast and those two barely closeted gays created some of the most brilliant literature of their age. To reduce them to their religiosity and sexuality for the sake of making some trite point about females and the lack thereof in the hobbit movie- how politically correct.

Was this supposed to be JUST a fantasy? I mean, in my younger days, I certainly had really vicious quarrels with my husband during which I'd be literally screaming that I'd wish he'd be run over by truck, nothing would make me happier than to hear of his death RIGHT NOW- etc etc. You get the idea. And for some reason-…

Long Live Robin Hood!

"... making a list of people beforehand, so you have a strategy before you go to the party..." Really? Who does that? A party is supposed to be about relaxing and having a bit of fun- make of list of important people beforehand? What dreadful social climbing behaviour.

I never said the school is to blame. I am lamenting the culture of fear which tragedies like this will make more pervasive, and which I believe is unhealthy. The end result will be that people will rely on security measures to keep them safe, instead of addressing real cultural issues which provide the context and…

I agree with the part about guns and inattention to mental problems. But I also think there is a very real culture of fear (obviously so!), which is fed by the obsession with security and cannot be healthy. And at some point, reliance on security takes over / is prioritized over what you were saying- the guns and…