What’s more annoying: the one-sentence-per-paragraph formatting of this story or its poor-me, whining celebrity content?
Beauty is a curse: Halle Berry
Halle Berry. She was the first African-American to represent America at the Miss World pageant.
She has won enough beauty titles to last a lifetime.
And she has an Oscar (Monster’s Ball) to her credit.
But Halle Berry would happily give up her beauty!
People magazine reports the Catwoman saying, ‘Let me tell you something — being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.’
Halle is one of Hollywood’s most well-dressed and stylish women. She has also acted in films like Catwoman and Die Another Day which show off her elegant body.
Halle also came strongly down on the human obsession with youth.
‘Personally, I’m really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that,’ she said. ‘There is this plastic, copycat look evolving and that’s frightening to me. It’s really insane and I feel sad that’s what society is doing to women.’
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Difficult to judge! Some people grow up to think that appearance matters.
Others think that it’s what’s inside that counts.
Looks fade. Intelligence doesn’t (although it tends to change its emphasis from sharpness to wisdom), and I would far depend upon my brain and personality, even though I’m not exactly ugly
I reject the false division between looks and personality: they are simply two aspects of the same thing. Bloody Cartesian.
Anyway, to answer Pootergeek’s question, it’s not a story; it’s a caption.
Still, despite the awful whiny celebrity content, surely I am not the only person to have the words “nice rack” passing through my cortex.
Whats more interesting is how you’re continuing to write pootergeek whilst simultaneously serving over 2000 computational biologist’s every whim. impressive.
Adam, how can I do this? Well, this conference has a cybercafé; I have superhuman powers; and the organisers have provided me with a bright student sidekick to help in the “herding invited speakers” game: Mark “The Boy Wonder” Minichiello.
(You might be amused to read that I had dinner with David Gilbert [conference chair] last night. He is an unreconstructed socialist from a communist family and we disagreed about everything, including the heights of mountains. It was great fun. Mark Minichiello, incidentally, is a Conservative and believes that the one thing I should have learned from our discussions during the meeting is that I am a Tory too. Bollocks to that.)
D! Congratulations on your acquisition of your personal PFP (pimply faced peon).
In response to your poll, I must admit that I was not paying attention to the formatting or the tone of the “piece”. What really floored me was this statement:
“Halle also came strongly down on the human obsession with youth.”
My fiance and I would pay good money to see her “come strongly down” on anything. In fact, that might have saved her abysmal movie.
Hmmmmm…….somehow Halle forgot to mention the nose job she got back in the early nineties……
Still……nice rack!