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Glamour is the rage this fall, and prime time is overflowing with ornately dressed, immaculately coiffed leading ladies who glide through fabulous worlds of wealth, power, romance and high-style intrigue. Some of them, such as Fairchild and Dina Merrill in Hot Pursuit, are campy bitches modeled after Joan Collins' conniving Alexis Carrington Colby. Others, like Dynasty's Linda Evans and Dallas' Priscilla Presley, are equally fanciful angels of goodness and nobility. Still others, like this season's spate of high-living private eyes, are just girls who want to have fun. But all of them...
...Marilyn Monroe's designer) to gussy up its shows. The company also plans to merchandise a line of women's clothes and beauty products tied in with Dallas. Paper Dolls has hired Designer Marc Bouwer, whose creations are sold in tony department stores like Saks, to drape Fairchild and her young models (Terry Farrell, Nicolette Sheridan) in lush attire. Each episode of Cover Up spotlights the fashions of a name designer (including Perry Ellis and Christian Dior) in exchange for a plug...
...accident that several of TV's most popular glamour girls have written bestselling books on beauty or fitness. Among them: Victoria Principal's The Body Principal (and her just published sequel, The Beauty Principal), Linda Evans' Beauty & Exercise Book, The Joan Collins Beauty Book and Morgan Fairchild's Super Looks...
...seem a far cry from the ideal of "natural" beauty that arose in the 1960s and '70s. Yet the actresses so lavishly accoutred insist that their roles are not a step backward for the feminist movement. "Natural is wonderful, but natural can also get a little boring," says Fairchild, 34. "I think the women's liberation movement finally has come full circle. Women have come to be confident enough in themselves that they don't feel they have to be stripped of everything to be taken seriously, that they can start having a little...
Indeed, beneath all this ornamentation lie a number of strong, independent female characters, who represent a big advance over the homebound, second-banana roles to which TV once relegated women. Alexis Colby is head of an oil empire. Fairchild's character runs a top modeling agency. Even the fun-loving private eyes are doing work formerly reserved for men. "Lynda Carter and I play two working women," says Anderson. "We rent a house, and a man is our servant. Women want to see women being both strong and glamorous at the same time. To be glamorous doesn...