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Also working hard to branch out is the waifish Amber Valetta, who just signed on as a correspondent with Fashion Week, a new TV show that premiered on the E! cable channel two weeks ago. It is one of four fashion-news shows that have sprung up in imitation of mtv's successful House of Style, starring Cindy Crawford. The paradigm for the supermodel-as-enterprise, Crawford is surely inspiring many of the professionally beautiful. Her various ventures-a TV show, exercise videos, contracts with Revlon, Pepsi and Kay Jewelers-earn her an estimated $6.5 million annually. According...
...overcome their unique problems. Exceedingly attractive women, the audience learned, lead complicated emotional lives. Many fret that the world will never look beyond the height of their cheekbones; they are worried that they will never be perceived as intelligent. "I was ashamed to become a model," admitted Jenny, a waifish Brit. "My parents are physicists...
...Flaubert-Sand epistolary relationship as documented by assorted biographers share pages with tawdry baubles such as John Seabrook's near-hagiographic piece on an obscure art director (whose 15 minutes are ticking rapidly away). And why, oh why do we need to learn anything more about Kate Moss, the waifish model with the look of utter imbecility...
...been compared to everything from Dorothy Parker in drag to the entire chorus line of beruffled hippos in Fantasia, and she shows traces of a dozen other singers: Streisand's nose and extraordinary head tones, Garland's saturation emotions and devoted homosexual following, Fanny Brice's waifish vulnerability, Joplin's floozy eleganza in attire and her tendency to egg audiences on to hysteria. But Miss M's secret is that she is not really like those others: she is acting like them. "I just try to have a good time and let the audience...
Deep Growls. In her second Broadway try, in the musical Purlie, she strutted away with the show, copping the 1970 Tony Award for the best supporting actress. At 5 ft. 4 in. and 100 Ibs., she is waifish, impish and has a voice that can shift gears from blues to ballads, from glass-shattering high notes to deep-down growls in one easy swoop...