AND it's lazy! I felt like it was all the same makeup with varying degrees of how hard they pushed down on the brush.

Aaaah. I am a historian, 20th century beauty is one of my specialty areas, and this gives me HIVES. It's not even remotely accurate. It's more like a makeup artist's vague modern take on decades past. Pretty, but NO.

Decca was a real wit too, so The Anerican Way of Death is a delight to read.

Jessica Mitford convinced me of that a long, long time ago.

Mine too. As soon as I saw the Kim K "champagne glass" pic, Miss Baartman came to mind.

This is a beautifully written piece, and I learned a lot about the topic (I'd often read Saartje was a slave).

where is A Room With A View? I love that movie so very much. I forced my husband to watch after he inflicted Anchorman in me, and he fell asleep only to wake up at the romping peen scene.

I love you for saying this. Look, this Ghomeshi guy is surely a creep and probably a rapist, but for the love of pete, I don't need to hear the phrase "experienced kinkster and professional dominatrix" twice in as many paragraphs. (And "kinkster"? Really?)

11 years later, that blank stare makes a bit more sense.

I'm thinking that Bette's army will be MUCH rougher trade than Barbra's.

I'm fortunate in that, being a history buff, "Doge" makes me think the Doge of Venice and Renaissance Italy.

All of them.

panties OFF.

I was going to post a silly gif, but tears started streaming down my face. THANK YOU SO MUCH, JOE. Sometimes the years of war against women just fucking wears you down, so when you hear this so plainly by someone so amazing, it just blows you away.

Wow, you don't see Kay Francis gifs everyday! Well done.

Just so long as one of the ghosts is played by the actual ghost of a frustrated, cantankerous Katharine Hepburn I'm all in.

You forgot the part where the big man came to little man's house, bulldozed it to the ground and called the land his own...

A little man slaps a big man in the face. The big man beats him to a bloody pulp with a crowbar, then beats up anyone standing near him, then complains to sympathetic bystanders about how much his face hurts now.

You forgot the worst one: The Dry Wedding.