Word: tans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Noted "No, he wouldn't have to wear blackface. He's such an extraordinary actor, I think he could pull it off. He would just have to get a deep tan." SEAN "P. DIDDY" COMBS, hip-hop star, on why actor Brad Pitt would be a good choice to play him in a movie about his life...
...HUPD officer was dispatched to Adams House after receiving a report of a suspicious person who fled after the caller returned home to find the individual trespassing in the caller’s room. A search for the suspect, described as a black male wearing a tan suit and a “scally” cap, turned up negative...
...Diner, across from the Ripley's Believe It Or Not emporium, stop to glance down at the pavement. There you will see three consecutive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte and Oscar Micheaux. You recognize two of the names. The tan tantalizer Dandridge was the first black to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar ("Carmen Jones," 1955); Belafonte was and is the cool, sexy actor-singer with a half-century's radiance. But Micheaux? Considering his instructively bizarre, virtually anonymous career, no one would have expected Micheaux to achieve this celebrity in cement...
...with the brazen declaration of summer—from the bikini wax horror stories and get-thin-for-summer diets to beach bargains and lifeguard love stories—comes what I think is the oddest parallel to my own skin-tone woes: the self-tan. There I was pooh-poohing the cosmetics industry for not caring enough about making or marketing the products I need to attain flawless, cover-girl appeal and the next thing I know, every model in every ad is rubbing her way to darker, warmer skin...
...begin with, the cover is a dizzying mix of colors that should not be paired, even if it is the triumphant return of everyone’s favorite season. Calista Flockhart (who is dating Harrison Ford…yes, this is a strange world) is adorning the cover. Her tan-in-a-bottle is, of course, flawless. Her two-page interview mentions her weight (“89 pounds dripping wet”) about fifty times as though it were some kind of heroic feat...