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...reports from a self-selected group of respondents. Much more rigorous research needs to be conducted to understand the relationship between mental illness and pimples - as well as the root cause of bad cases of acne. But in the meantime, drug companies might want to start working on a Clearasil-Prozac miracle cream...
...reminiscence, Mad Men doesn't have a baby-boomer perspective. (Creator Matthew Weiner, 42, was born after the boomer cutoff.) Its sensibility is closer to artifacts of its time like The Apartment or John Cheever's Wasp-character-study stories. In Mad Men, the boomers are a market for Clearasil or the children of the Drapers and their friends, largely unseen and unheard. (In a new episode, Don instructs his grade-school-age daughter how to mix a Tom Collins for guests...
...named Giorgio. But there is a new breed of guy out there, men who stock their medicine cabinets with skin creams and exfoliators, unlike the rest of us who use them to store excess beer. I'm the type of fellow whose relationship with cosmetics began and ended with Clearasil, but I can sense when evolutionary winds are shifting...
...currently 33 million teens in this country, and last year, according to Teenage Research Unlimited, they spent a total of almost $20 billion on health-and-beauty products. The nearly 10,000 spas operating in the U.S. are determined not to let all that money be squandered on Clearasil or do-it-yourself hair...
DIED. IVAN DEBLOIS COMBE, 88, entrepreneur who created the acne cream Clearasil; in Greenwich, Conn. He also developed Odor-Eaters foot-care products and Just For Men hair color...