Word: joan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past the age of 35 should not be devalued as a possible romantic partner simply because of age. The media's shift from an emphasis on only the very young woman as sexually exciting is noteworthy, but does it really signal or promote a change in attitudes toward women? Joan Collins, Vicki LaMotta, and other mentioned are all "older" women who look like thirty-year-olds; Joan Collins may be able to find the "few lines" she mentions when she looks into her bathroom mirror in the morning, but they certainly don't appear on the pages of Playboy...
These celebrity women are not changing or challenging the notion that the older woman is not a viable romantic interest; they have simply beaten the system which devalues the middle-aged woman by being fortunate enough to look like they aren't middle-aged women. Ms. Han writes that Joan Collins "had the right idea when she posed for Playboy--to show the American public that a 50-year-old woman can and should be as sexually desirable as a girl." With the body of a girl and the face of a thirty-year-old, Ms. Collins has demonstrated only...
...split up on the sitcom's concluding episode of the season. Webster's uncle (Ben Vereen) suddenly reappeared on that show's finale, setting up a custody battle for the fall. On Dynasty's season ender, the jailhouse door clanged shut on sultry, scheming Alexis (Joan Collins), who is charged (gasp!) with murder, while a car driven by a delirious Fallen Colby (Pamela Sue Martin) on her wedding day careered out of control, heading (gulp!) straight for a truck...
...Joan Z. Shore...
...Here's to the substance beneath the surface. To the true color of the spirit rather than the color of the package." A noble sentiment, certainly. But when the speaker is Joan Collins, 50, one cannot help wondering: Is her television alter ego, Alexis Carrington, merely engaging once again in deceitful discourse for the sake of her own naughty ends? Not this time. The scene is from Blondes vs Brunettes, an ABC-TV special to be aired next week, which features TV's brunet queen meanie, Collins, and Morgan Fairchild, 34, a blond TV vixen. In one skit...