Too Much To Dream

I think you're absolutely right.

I think part of it is marketing and polling data. We've moved to a society where we realize most disposable income belongs to young people. Young men in their 20s are generally not looking for brains. It's just the truth, and it's partly because most of them don't have a lot of brains themselves--or if they do, they're too horny to notice when it comes to women.

I prefer the more interesting women too, but then, I'm in my late 30s, so...

Still. I do find most of the women from an earlier era more attractive than the ones these days. Although, also contributing to this mix is that the females of an earlier era that we remember are the most interesting and memorable. With the exception of Marilyn Monroe, most of the female sex objects we remember from 30, 40, 50, 60 years ago are the ones who gave memorable and interesting performances, which were mostly females who showed something more than looks.

I have a personal thing for Donna Reed, especially circa It's A Wonderful Life. But anyway, how many people remember Jane Mansfield (except for her tragic accident), Tuesday Weld, Twiggy, or a host of other pretty airheads?

I've always been fond of Lauren Bacall since I saw "To Have and Have Not," but for a brain behind the looks, go with Hedy Lamarr. During World War II, she got a patent on the idea behind spread-spectrum radio. See http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,76692,00.html

Sorry Andrea. We were born too late for the era of glamour. Now its all sex and no sizzle.

Yeah, but Rita Hayworth married Mickey Rooney so mandatory I.Q. point deduction - right there!

Yeah... not to mention that in the '40s a woman didn't have to be anorexic to be considered beautiful.

Hey, what's wrong with drinks with little umbrellas in them??

Rita Hayworth was married to Orson Welles, not Mickey Rooney. Ava Gardner was married to Mickey Rooney, though.

I said it on Dean's blog and I'll post it here too. The difference is that they were grownups. When you became an adult back then, there was an adult culture and grown men & women behaved a certain way. Now they all want to behave like kids and continue to try to follow the children's culture. It's yet another burden that boomers have laid on this society. It's high time we started behaving like adults.

It's a disease, by Bog. To wit: Jennifer Connelly. Started out as a 40s kind of va-va-voom sort of gal, then whooooosh she got a career and Hollywood sucked every last gram of curvy fat off her, so that now she looks like she really is the junkie she played in Requiem For A Dream. Tragic.

It's a very weird commentary on our culture, these skeletal things walking about, passing for sexy. We've come a long way since the days of the Willendorf Venus, when goddeses were bountiful. We've replaced fecundity with sterile pleasure, and our imagistic magical media ideals both reflect and reinforce that substitution.

It's unhealthy on so many levels...

In those days, men knew what they wanted, and women knew they knew.

These days, don't nobody know nothing.