Ageism will hopefully cease to exist as soon as women uncondition themselves. Women have been conditioned to think of themselves as "done, baked and fried" as soon as they hit the age of thirty. They’ve been conditioned by a patriarchal society to believe it’s all over once they’re out of their twenties. Yet, men are idolized and said to be distinguished looking along with all the other flattering adjectives as they age. What’s really sad is women continue to feed into this lie and nurse their daughters on it. How have women contributed to their daughters lack of self esteem?

 It’s not youth that makes a woman attractive. It’s her self esteem and confidence. It’s how she takes care of herself focusing on her health. It’s how she sees herself in the world while marching to the beat of her own drummer.

Come On Sisters Let’s Flush This Crap With the Rest Of The Crap Being Served!….We Deserve Better!…. Haven’t We Earned It?

 I agree Jennifer Aniston should look fresh she can afford the best care and spas money can buy and why not? She earns her cash and she should enjoy and benefit from it.

Kim Novak has always been one of my favorite actresses. I hope to read the interview. I wish her the very best. I read years ago she and Sammy Davis Jr. were lovers and had every intention of getting married. However, this was during the 1950s. The both were threatened and there was some mob involvement. The relationship was squashed and Mr. Davis ended up marrying a dancer. The marriage did not last. This was long before he married his wife Mrs. E. Davis with whom he shared a long and loving marriage until his death.

The whole idea of a Jackson Family Tour is worse than distasteful. Michael was the drawing attraction not these "talentless bloodsuckers." He carried his brothers while he was alive and now they’re trying to profit from his death. This tour has nothing to do with honoring Michael, it’s about "cash." Janice distance yourself from this shameful pimping.

I read that Ms. Aniston spends many thousands of dollars a month on hair and skin care, exercise, nutrition, stylists and so on. Well, as an actress, her looks are a legitimate business expense. But that being said, I think if all of us spent even half of her monthly costs on our appearance, we’d all be looking dewier, fresher and more polished, no?

The Jackson family tour is actually sick-making to me. More and more, it is terribly obvious that it was Michael’s talent that floated the boats of his entire family. Not saying his brothers and sisters (especially Janet, who IS a terrific talent in her own right) do not have above-average ability in the vocal department. BUT - it was MJ’s charisma and dynamism that shone out like a laser from his first stage appearance, and "made" that family business hum. Probably the worst example of the vampirish feeding off Michael came at the BMA awards when Joe Jackson used his red carpet interview - literally HOURS after his son’s death! - to promote his new production company. I’m with you, Liz. I hope Janet backs off from the tour and the whole thing goes bye-bye. If you want to memorialize MJ, just listen to his music and pass on the "extravaganza".

How great that the marvelous, high-stepping Ms. Chita has been recognized! What a performer; what style; what energy and elegance. And she’s still looking mighty sassy in the photo with President Obama.

Kim Novak - oh, what a joy to see her picture, Liz! She has always been one of my favorites, particularly in Vertigo. Her dream-like, slow-motion performance was brilliant, and to hear that she is thriving and active just made my day.

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." - Marcus Aurelius

Wonderful quote… something I have always lived by but never had a quote to back it up! Thanks Liz!

Yes, I, too, have always loved that Aurelius quote. One has to keep that in mind when some folks remind you that, hey, Fox News is number one as though that makes it number one in quality. Ever read what constitutes "best" on the best seller lists? 

Aniston is one of the best comic actresses we have. She shines in anything she does. 

Kim Novak was never one of my favorites. There was something repressive about her acting–––a holding back, a stoned kind of quality. But she was perfect in "Picnic"––there that quality suited. 

In his 1985 essay "Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood," James Baldwin wrote of Michael Jackson:

"The Michael Jackson cacophony is fascinating in that it is not about Jackson at all. I hope he has the good sense to know it and the good fortune to snatch his life out of the jaws of a carnivorous success. He will not swiftly be forgiven for having turned so many tables, for he damn sure grabbed the brass ring, and the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo has nothing on Michael."

James Baldwin did not live long enough to see Jackson self-destruct. In the end, the chief elements of his early childhood––his father, his blackness, the church, his mother’s silence––won, and the prize was his self-martyrdom: the ninety-pound frame; the facial operations; the dermatologist as the replacement family; the disastrous finances; the young boys loved, and then paid off. Michael Jackson died a long time ago, and it’s taken years for anyone to notice.

Hilton Als