Word: blonde
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...Gapification of America has been sneaking up on us for more than a decade, and now, with the omnipresence of wellmade, monchromal cotton sweaters, of grilled chicken sandwiches with honey mustard sauce, of blond wood and black halogen floor lamps, it has finally triumphed. It is a victory for democracy: these products are relatively cheap, handsome and well made. No one has ever looked ugly in a Gap shirt...
...none of that matters, because there are plenty of close-ups of Ice's fine-looking cheekbones and fabulously patterned hair (a blond pouf in front and several geometric designs on the side for those keeping score), a bunch of music video scenes with bustier-clad blonds dancing to Ice's new tunes ("I love a girl/And then I diss the same one/Because I know there's more where that came from"), and lots and lots of clothes. Clothes in every color of the neon rainbow, clothes with words on them, clothes with Haringesque graffiti on them, gang clothes, dance...
Teri Copley, who once played a blond airhead on the sitcom We Got It Made, isn't exactly a high-profile Hollywood celebrity these days. Still, she had plenty to say on a recent segment of the Maury Povich Show. Povich's subject was the dumb-blond stereotype. Teri was against it. "I get the feeling," said Maury, pondering one of her more heartfelt comments, "that you're into self-awareness big time...
...says, "but in no way do I make the same money as any of them." Asian models find it especially difficult to get work, according to Rosemarie Chalem at the Zoli agency in New York City. "In every country," says Chris Owen, director of the British agency ElitePremier, "blond hair and blue eyes sell...
...listen to Niki Taylor, the lovely Florida blond, the model many say could represent the next generation of superstars. She has had 42 magazine covers since she started working two years ago, and is the youngest model ever to snare a big cosmetics contract. "I'm just playing it day by day and seeing how it goes," Taylor says. Does she want to be modeling at 25? "No," she says, and then her voice drifts off. "I don't know . . ." What she is probably thinking is, Twenty-five! That's so old! Who can think so far ahead...