It has ranked among the top ten irritating TV ads of all time. “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful,” pouted actress and model Kelly LeBrock back in 1980, tossing her hair coquettishly as she shilled for Pantene shampoo. What few people realized at the time was that the tag line came close to describing a real type of discrimination. It wasn’t in the form of jealousy from other women, as the commercial implied; that trope has never really held up to much scrutiny. Read More...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD—Enid Starkie—Norton ($3.75). Between 15 and 19, Arthur Rimbaud wrote poetry whose slashing irony and pure music still influence poets. At 19 he wrote Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell), an obscure, agonized hodgepodge in which Rimbaud addicts* trace the wrestlings of his André Gide-like puritanism with his André Gide-like passions. But from then until he died, at 37, in a Marseille hospital, Arthur Rimbaud never wrote again. Read More...
Bruce Jenner has broken his silence following a fatal car crash in Malibu on Saturday.
In a statement to PEOPLE, Jenner, 65, expressed his sympathy for the family of the deceased 70-year-old driver and the other victims involved.
“My heartfelt and deepest sympathies go out to the family and loved ones, and to all of those who were involved or injured in this terrible accident,” the former Olympian said. “It is a devastating tragedy and I cannot pretend to imagine what this family is going through at this time. Read More...