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    BoxMeowBoxAnna Breslaw
    8/09/13 9:23am

    Karen Black as Myrtle Wilson in the 1974 Great Gatsby. Also (for fans of really obscure movies) a Canadian film called The Pyx. RIP to an actress with enormous talent and a great heart.

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      sambycatBoxMeowBox
      8/09/13 9:30am

      3 words: TRILOGY OF TERROR

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      JoanbeamBoxMeowBox
      8/09/13 9:57am

      Agreed. On all three points, to be more precise. Karen Black was *so* convincing as Myrtle Wilson. Plus, *The Pyx* saw her sharing plenty of screen time with Christopher Plummer (sigh).

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    mare13Anna Breslaw
    8/09/13 9:44am

    I think Rachel McAdams looks amazing. Futuristic goddess! She can do no wrong.

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      peasandricemare13
      8/09/13 9:49am

      I agree! She's like the superhero-princess I've always wanted to be.

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      mare13peasandrice
      8/09/13 9:53am

      Yes! All she needs are some gorgeous wrist-cuffs that shoot lasers. And a magical talking white Siberian tiger sidekick.

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    UrbanAchieverAnna Breslaw
    8/09/13 9:58am

    Was I asleep for a really long time and hair stopped growing back?

    Seriously, it's 2013, and people are crying because a lady cut her locks for a shorter hair cut? And this is front page news? I like Bee, she's a good singer and really pretty, but I mean, come on.

    Short hair was a statement (a political one at that) around 1920. This short hair was worth reporting on.

    Even this short hair, in the 1950s, was a serious statement:

    But the whole uproar over Beyoncé, even Miley et al getting pixie cuts just kind of makes me go meh. I got a crew cut back in 1982, and was shocked that it took three haircutters before I could find a guy who was happy to cut a girl's hair that short, something like this:

    I didn't think it was a statement then, I don't now. I feel like it belittles women to make such a big deal of this. "Oooh, now she's so strong, she can wear her hair short! Look at her, with the short man-cut." Argh.

    It's 2013, people. Almost a hundred years since the first flapper cut her hair. I can't believe we are still talking about femininity being defined by long hair.

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      JoanbeamUrbanAchiever
      8/09/13 10:14am

      You've made some really valid points here. Plus, memo to all fashion/beauty editors and writers with respect to the 1920s era pic: now *that* is a bob haircut.

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      moweezy3UrbanAchiever
      8/09/13 10:42am

      The only thing I can think of is that African American and/or curly hair takes a lot longer to grow to a certain length because of it's curl? To physically get 2 inches of length you need 4 inches of straightened hair?

      I only ask because my friend with super curly hair (like natural ringlets mixed with this:

      her hair is about twice as long when it's soaking wet.

      But OTHERWISE I completely agree with your point about short hair being news in the 1920s and 50s... and not so much now.

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    Gonzo the SomethingAnna Breslaw
    8/09/13 9:18am

    Sigh...

    Ian Anderson plays a regular flute, not a pan flute.

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      ElyseTemonistGonzo the Something
      8/09/13 9:22am

      Are you sighing because you know that?

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      BoxMeowBoxGonzo the Something
      8/09/13 9:24am

      Thank you, that was an eeer-i-tating mistaken factoid.

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    Lucky FrogAnna Breslaw
    8/09/13 10:10am

    Under a number of states' laws, maybe not including California, any child born into a marriage is presumed to be the husband's biological kid. That means if Kourtney and Scott were married in Alabama, then someone like this Girgenti character wouldn't have any legal standing to bring a paternity suit, not even if Mason was his spitting image, clearly a different race than Scott, etc.

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      WaeGookLucky Frog
      8/09/13 10:54am

      Yeah, that was one of the big hiccups during the Kim/Kris divorce. Technically speaking, if they hadn't been divorced before the baby was born, it would have been legally possible to put his name on the birth certificate. No one ever indicate that they would do it, but it made a big mess even messier.

      Guess if Kourtney and Scott had gotten married then they wouldn't have to deal with this. I know kids can pop out looking completely different than their parents, and that Kourtney is Armenian, but I've never really thought Mason looked like he belonged to Scott. Or it could just be, and likely is, just a money grab from some jerk.

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      Natasha Evans-CornellLucky Frog
      8/09/13 12:37pm

      Yea my husband's divorce with his first wife should have been fairly painless. They were both grad students with no actual assets to divide. BUT she got pregnant a few months after they split and they had to do all this extra legal stuff so he would not be considered the father. Even though she readily admitted the baby was not his. He ended up paying a whole lot extra in legal fees.

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    justdontokAnna Breslaw
    8/09/13 9:27am

    Gabrielle Union has got to have a portrait up in her attic. That woman is seriously the most gorgeous 20 something looking 40 year old.

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      CrusaderForTruthinessjustdontok
      8/09/13 9:35am

      No no no, don't be ridiculous!

      Virgin blood. That's the ticket.

      No one uses portraits anymore.

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    bokjoyAnna Breslaw
    8/09/13 9:57am

    "I’ve been working for her so long, she has this beautiful long hair and it’s hard to grow hair out. I feel like it’s my hair."

    As someone who recently cut my hair short (which I ADORE), UGH, person. It really isn't that big of a deal to grow hair out. It is just hair. This reminds me of when I was at the salon getting the Big Chop done, and all the other women there seemed WAY more traumatized than I did. One kept saying, "I can't believe I'm witnessing this! I can't believe you didn't bring a friend for moral support!" Another one said, "Wait until you're older to do this!" People are weird about other people's hairs, yo.

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      HSlomibokjoy
      8/09/13 11:23am

      My stylist was so excited when I cut my hair recently! She even wanted to post a photo of the cut on her facebook!

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      bokjoyHSlomi
      8/09/13 11:26am

      Oh, my stylist loved doing it! It was the other women getting their hair cut at the same time as me that were FREAKING OUT, haha.

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    doit2julia!Anna Breslaw
    8/09/13 9:45am

    Why do you think yeast infections have spikes, Anna?

    GIF
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      Mycologiedoit2julia!
      8/09/13 11:44am

      I knowwww. I clicked on the link because I was like, "what could they POSSIBLY look like to resemble a yeast infection?!"

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    Sticky Little FingersAnna Breslaw
    8/09/13 10:43am

    It's so weird to me that people make such a huge deal out of younger women cutting their hair but don't seem to notice that in a lot of this country, most white women over about 35 have short hair.

    (I was on a cruise a few years ago, and was amazed that I was virtually the only woman over 40 with long hair except for the mostly Latino staff. Never realized this was a thing since it isn't the case in NYC)

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      VamanosPestSticky Little Fingers
      8/09/13 11:50am

      I feel you. I am about to turn 40 and have shoulder length hair that is still pretty and thick. I cannot tell you how many subtle comments about "long for your age" I get when I visit family in the Midwest. I know women's hair thins when they are older, but I'm 39, not 59. I look good, and I do think it's an NYC thing. Sorry mom jeans cousin, I look gooooood.

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      Sticky Little FingersVamanosPest
      8/09/13 1:45pm

      Totally. I'm 46 and my hair is mid-back, thick, bouncy and shiny. It's my best feature and I throw a bunch of money at it to ensure it stays that way. I'm not cutting that shit; they can go stuff it.

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    JuventinaAnna Breslaw
    8/09/13 10:03am

    I don't know if it's the cut or not, but I don't think Beyoncé looks her best with short hair. Emma Watson for instance I thought looked great in very short hair, Beyoncé meh.

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      SheelaNaGigJuventina
      8/09/13 11:43am

      I agree. I'd love to see her with a different short haircut, and dark hair. This is a little Peter Pan looking for me.

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      JuventinaSheelaNaGig
      8/09/13 7:25pm

      Yeah darker, generally she needs to embrace dark hair!

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