Word: frowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Booth, a publicist in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif., had her face fully resurfaced by a laser two years ago, just before turning 50, to eliminate smile lines, wrinkles on her forehead, frown lines between the brows and crow's-feet around her eyes. Before the procedures, she says, "I looked mean, and I felt older." She also felt vulnerable at the office. "People want to work with people who appear youthful, vital and exuberant. I wanted to look outside how I felt inside. Does that sound shallow...
...cons--Harry the thief (Brit throb Jeremy Northam, doing a nice imitation of all four Baldwin brothers) and Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr., the career loser (appealingly whiny Steve Zahn)--have escaped from prison and landed in "the town without a frown." The camper they have stolen belonged to a couple of pageant producers, so Harry and Wayne must pretend to be gay men with an encyclopedic knowledge of show tunes and sewing as they prepare five avid little girls for the 18th annual Little Miss Fresh Squeeze Preteen Talent Competition. They are also expected to be the most sensitive guys...
...think if the art was good it would sell itself," Hanks says. "Then I worked and starved for 15 years, and I realized that today's art business is about selling your name." Wyland started marketing his work in junior high school and never let up. "The art snobs frown on any marketing or business," he says, "but the old masters weren't successful until they were dead. I didn't want to wait that long...
...refusing to get off and reboard through the back door. ("He was still mean-looking," she has said.) Did that make her stubborn? Or had her work in the N.A.A.C.P. sharpened her sensibilities so that she knew what to do--or more precisely, what not to do: Don't frown, don't struggle, don't shout, don't pay the fine...
...done since releasing her critically acclaimed and best-selling album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. She might also do a little acting on the show--SNL staff members have asked her to appear in a skit. But as Hill reads, her small rose-blossom lips wilt into a frown. She hands you the script. It's titled Pimp Chat--it's a sketch about a street hustler with a talk show. Hill's role: a 'ho. Or, if she's uncomfortable with that, she can play a female pimp. Hmmm. Now, being in an SNL sketch is a big opportunity...