Beauty Is Truly Relative, Even When You’re 79
You see them annually, those lists of the best, brightest, the most beautiful. But one of the first magazines to do it was Ebony, that clone of Life magazine for African-Americans. Ebony began publishing its list of “The Most Beautiful Black Women” in 1946.
And one woman has made the list every single year: Lena Horne.
Horne made it again this year, despite being 79. She was joined by the following: former Miss America Vanessa Williams and actresses Halle Berry, Jada Pinkett, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Salli Richardson and Angela Bassett; singers Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Chilli Thomas and Cassandra Wilson; model Tyra Banks; opera singer Jessye Norman; and educator Camille Cosby, wife of Bill Cosby.
Loose talk
Ex-Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie on counseling still-thePrincess Diana (in his biography “The Reluctant Archbishop”): “When you began on abstract ideas, you could see her eyes clouding over. Her eyelids became heavy.”
Wasn’t this used as a password during World War II?
Lola Falana turns 50 today.
Time to cue the ‘Twilight Zone’ theme
If you believe in psychics, then you have something - maybe the only thing - in common with Demi Moore. The movie star wrote the introduction to a book by her personal psychic, Laura Day. Moore wrote that when she first met Day, before long “We were talking about details and insights that only my closest friends could know.”
He earned a new merit badge for his uniform jacket
Michael Jackson, performing in Prague, turned up at a record store in the capital of the Czech Republic. After the resulting crowd of fans accidentally smashed a store window, the gloved one climbed on top of his car to warn people away from the broken glass.
You should see where they placed the tutu
Miss New York Tammy Harris, 24, is the only tattooed Miss America hopeful. The bit of body art involves ballet slippers positioned above her, uh, derriere. “I did it on a dare,” she said.
At least they weren’t tattooed on her
In a story about the reign of Miss America Shawntel Smith, who followed title-holder Heather Whitestone, the Associated Press writer wrote, “As Miss America, she had big shoes to fill.”
Heh-heh-heh, we said dinck, heh-heh-heh
By now you may know that crooner Englebert Humperdinck sings the title song for the Beavis and Butt-Head movie “Fly High Lesbian Seagull.” But maybe you don’t know why, according to his handlers, he is eminently qualified to do so. “Though many people have come to know Engelbert as the romantic leader of the free world,” says a news release, “few know of his disarming wit and charm.”
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