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...chief Anna Wintour. In the movie, MERYL STREEP plays Miranda Priestly, the temperamental, overweening editor of a fictional fashion glossy called Runway--a character based loosely on Wintour. But the movie's stylists did away with the fashion queen's dark bob and sunglasses, reportedly to make the character sexier, more provocative and not so devilish. Or maybe they thought Wintour's real look is just way too scary...
Kudrow, 41, only a year out of TV's most popular sitcom, is not exactly a comeback candidate. But, she says, "I have had moments I worked through years ago where I felt I had to be sexier, to lose weight or that I was supposed to get on the cover of such-and-such magazine." As King puts it: "Forty-year-old doctor? Great. Forty-year-old professor? Great. Forty-year-old TV star? Dinosaur." So Valerie's hyper-self-consciousness--she's constantly signaling "time out" to the cameras during uncomfortable moments--is like an animal's defense...
...talk too much about himself to sell it. "I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you," he says. "You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman." An ottoman? You mean, like a footstool? "Ottoman just sounds sexier. Footstool just sounds like a medical condition to me." Mos's dignity is probably safe for a while longer...
...Movies were getting sexier in the 60s. I mean films. European ones, Scandinavian ones: Bergman's The Silence, Vilgot Sjoeman's I Am Curious Yellow, that not-so-arty art-house hit I, a Woman. Cinema eroticism came with subtitles, until a renegade Hollywood faction got the word and married social and sexual issues in Medium Cool, Easy Rider and the Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy -all rated X, back when that designation simply meant a film for adults, not a porno film. Back when sexually urgent films were made for thinking adults. As I say, this was a long time...
Just when you thought life couldn’t get any better, someone invented a vending machine that puts out—fresh, hot pizza. Could there be anything sexier...