I haven't seen the pictures you're talking about, so I may be totally off base here, but to my eyes, sometimes looking all Hollywood-ified - as you so nicely called it - doesn't mean looking better.

Definitely. I thought Sarah Chalke looked much nicer about 5 years ago before her Scrubs character was glamourized and she started wearing heavy eyeshadow and frosting her hair. The natural look (even if achieved with a fair amount of makeup) suited her a lot better.

I just pray the fashion for women to shave the first inch of their hairlines off doesn't come back, EVER.

was Rita Hayworth

That's who I was thinking of! Thanks, Barb.

ick. I was up too late writing and am now racing around my apartment like a madwoman trying to get my shit together to get to work.

I feel so much better today. Six more weeks of writing, and then Sam gets sent to my agent. Six weeks. then new book in hands! Well. New manuscript. I keep hoping and hoping. And hoping.

Hope with me!

Crazy Polish Roommate and her Mother frequently complimented me on my large forehead. And in Peru people stopped me in the street to compliment me on my nose (one even needed to find a translator).

Pretty is weird.

Winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest of bad writing: [link]

"Die, commie pigs!" grunted Sergeant "Rocky" Steele through his cigar stub as he machine-gunned the North Korean farm animals.

My new favorite blog.

I just pray the fashion for women to shave the first inch of their hairlines off doesn't come back, EVER.

As in most things depilatory, I'm ahead of the game. I mean, if I shaved an inch back, I'd be in sixhead territory.

My new favorite blog.

I like that blog too!

Gudanov - Jul 31, 2008 10:46:48 am PDT #706 of 3288

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I have a high enough forehead naturally, I don't need to shave anything to make it more so. I've worn bangs most of my life to cover it, otherwise I think I look like I have a receding hairline.