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Post by chonies on Aug 26, 2014 17:12:20 GMT -4
I remember Jennifer Slept Here, too! I liked the oil painting opening credits, and for some reason Ann Jillian kept showing up in my mom's Good Housekeeping.
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Post by smitten on Aug 26, 2014 17:13:39 GMT -4
I remember her from It's A Living. And yes she was everywhere in the early 80s, Especially in my mom's magazines!
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Post by chonies on Aug 26, 2014 17:52:16 GMT -4
I hate that I remembered she married a Chicago police guy. Brain, what up?
Anyway, I like Lena's hair--it's not the most amazing thing and doesn't especially work for her, but I feel like I can relate to the urge to do something risky.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2014 18:25:34 GMT -4
I remember her from It's A Living. And yes she was everywhere in the early 80s, Especially in my mom's magazines! I loved It's a Living (and nearly every other 80s and 90s syndicated sitcom ever made). I feel like I'm being trolled by her and I haven't even seen her damn show.
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Post by chiqui on Aug 27, 2014 0:22:44 GMT -4
Pooh, that dress is awful! Her hair is ok though.
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Post by thneed on Aug 27, 2014 1:00:58 GMT -4
I sort of feel like she knows that she can hire the best stylists and wear perfectly-cut dresses and high heels and use all the tricks to look as tall and as thin as she can, and everyone will coo about how her clothes look flattering, and tasteful, and how she really knows how to make the most of what she has. She will never get the "oh my God, WOW" reaction most other celebrities get. Maybe she doesn't want to wear an eternity of dark colors and peplums and princess necklines and falsies and extensions and three different kinds of Spanx. She wants to have fun with fashion like the very thin celebrities get to do.
She can't win trying to compete with the rest of the celebrities on conventional beauty. Her best shot is to be the most interesting.
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Post by chonies on Aug 27, 2014 1:35:11 GMT -4
She can't win trying to compete with the rest of the celebrities on conventional beauty. Her best shot is to be the most interesting. This is kind of where I get stuck. Her presentation of interesting is boundary-pushing in a vaguely irritating way--she has contacts and resources to get an "interesting" look, and definitely an audience if she wanted to make a statement, but that almost invariably turns out to be an unusual dress and untouched hair with makeup seemingly done while looking at the mirror in the passenger side visor. I think I'd like more of a statement, but now I'm just bored because it feels like it's always the same template.
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Post by kostgard on Aug 27, 2014 3:28:18 GMT -4
There's nothing wrong with trying for unique or interesting, but she always goes skidding past that and lands on ill-fitting and unflattering. Always. So she doesn't look interesting, she just looks like she doesn't know how to get clothes that fit. If that is her thing, I don't really know what she's trying to say with it. You can avoid looking like the typical Hollywood Barbie and do so while wearing things that fit.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 9:56:23 GMT -4
I've seen her look good, so she can! I think she's going for some weird 'I don't give a damn, this is how I'm made' look/attitude, but she just comes off as looking ridiculous. She needs a stylist, and some friends who will tell her when she looks ridiculous.
Or maybe she just enjoys the attention.
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Post by tortuga on Aug 27, 2014 14:30:12 GMT -4
As a person of size, I get so annoyed at her dress choices because it seems to reinforce the idea that large women can't be sexy or attractive. And the fact that she never ever ever gets it right (with HBO surely more than willing to pony up a stylist if she couldn't get one) makes me think that it's deliberate.
Lena, you are short and pear shaped and that's okay. No one with those proportions would have looked good in that dress, no matter if they were a size 4, 14 or 24. You need to be about six feet tall and not very curvacious to pull it off. We get it. You're dumpy. You show it off in your full glory on your show and aren't scared to give realistic idea of sex. Good for you. But at award shows, the courageous thing would be to swing for the fences and dare to look pretty at your size/shape.
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