Nude = Beauty? Animal-like, is it?

La beauté nue, une expo Demarchelier à Paris

La beauté nue, une expo Demarchelier à Paris
Il a photographié toutes les stars et les top models des années 90, était le photographe officiel de Diana, rencontre avec Patrick Demarchelier dont l'oeuvre est exposée à Paris, au Petit Palais.

HA.
A dime a dozen - that is all that they are!
All these naked bimbos - once you've seen one, you've see them all!
They are all the same; so much so, you could swear cloning has been around almost as long as that Ira Levin book made it sound to have been: The Stepford Wives, remember that? Look into it!
Once a single one has bared it all, it is just as if they'd ALL done it, I tell ya! There is nothing left to see - much less anything remotely interesting in their personalities to grasp your attention beyond that...!
This goes at least double (if not a hundred-fold) for the male models some frustrated and/or frigid desperately exasperating housewives loooove to ogle either Friday evenings or on week-ends, at Chippendale's or a cheaper sleazier strip joint! But anyway - back to chicks now!
I remember hearing a pro say it so eloquently too: "once you've seen (she might have said "licked" actually - it was such a long time ago, I hardly recall now... They're not pros to LISTEN TO, y'know...!) and felt up a boob, what else is there, eh?"
Indeed!
A thousand and one nude models unravel only two thousand and two nearly identical blobs... I mean, boobies - and there's nothing to it at all, really!
Nipples are nipples - get over them!
The curves, and alleged artistic way each photog has to represent them - it is all smoke and mirrors, really! Pat Demarchelier is just a Frenchman - and as any other Frenchy, he's a natural-born voyeur, that's all! And natural-born voyeurs are made that way: they NEVER get enough! Now I am not sure what Annie's problem is - but I'd say there should be such a thing as a "lesbovoyeur" too - huh? Kim Carnes would agree...


Annie Leibovitz, la photographe des stars, exposée à Londres

Really now - are we evolved or not?

If we were made to shed our clothes all the time like that, we'd all have been born (or gotten to grow up) much hairier than we get to be, in due time...!
Besides, you gotta start making sense too, people: you either like and CRAVE the naturally-grown fur (and that clothes-shedding obsession seems to indicate that there sure is an obsession there!) or you want to get rid of every last trace of body hair GOD Has ever Given ya; either through waxing, some high-techy treatment that only estheticians comprehend - or plain ol' shaving! In the latter case, after the job is all done (duh) - YOU NEED TO KEEP THE DAMN CLOTHES ON!
Oh, but that's right - then, so many of these poor starving models (artists & models...?) would be OUT OF A JOB - because shedding their clothes and striking suggestive poses is all they can do, right?

Only the (very) few accessories used in these photo shoots can add any infinitesimal sense of class and romanticism, henceforth - indeed!

...

When Warren The Warrior-Wrestler Came Forth...

Former major league baseball player Warren Cromartie (R)
and his partner Ryoji Sai shrink back
from Indian wrestler Tiger Jeet Singh,
seen brandishing a sword at ringside,
and his tag-team partner Joenosuke Sai (not seen)
at a tag-team match part of the
Hustle Aid pro wrestling event
in Saitama, north of Tokyo, June 17, 2007.
REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (JAPAN)

I don't know what pushed Warren Cromartie to do this...
At 53 years of age, he's wrestling a maniac who wields a sword...!
Not only that, but he won that match too!
(His baseball uniform evokes his old uniform
but this one reads "SAMURAIMEN" I do believe
- maybe a local Japanese team he's sponsoring now;
the same way Youppi used to sponsor the defunct
Montreal Expos...? But I digress...)

Of course, it has been done before -
many times - maybe too many times...!
The WCW really went all-out,
back in the day
bringing into the "sport" of wrestling
cross-sports athletes
from the Baseball field
from the Football gridiron, primarily
and even from the basketball court -
EL GIGANTE came from there, after all!
Karl Malone and Dennis Rodman
appeared on WCW/nWo pay-per-views;
Cromartie seems to be the first
MLB player to actually WRESTLE
because Pete Rose's crappy
"performances" in the old WWF
simply do not count!
AMERICAN FOOTBALL -
not real football aka soccer;
it needs precising -
is, of course, the ideal playground
to find new "recycled" wrestlers;
Lex Luger, the late Brian Pillman,
Jim Neidhart, Steve 'Mongo' McMichaels,
Lawrence Taylor (one-shot 'un-wonder')
and several others through the years
have made that transition
(often with disastrous results)

The only NHLer I recall seeing making
any sort of cameo OF NOTE
was former Detroit enforcer
Bob Probert, on WCW Nitro.
He and Tank Abbott had exactly ZERO chemistry;
and it does take two to tango -
it doesn't work when both belligerents
have exactly ZERO charisma!
So, it wasn't repeated...

Brett Hull and others did make an odd cameo
-also on WCW Nitro-
alongside Chuck Norris
and Bill Goldberg
(as if Goldberg needed the help!)
but it was very inconsequential too -
Goldberg had already done all the work
dispatching all nWo goons
to the four corners of the ring!

All of these "special appearances"
bring, in the end, absolutely
NOTHING, really...

It is amusing for exactly 1.5 seconds -
and then the "crossover wow" effect
wears completely off -
as we come to realize that,
really, these guys
who come from such different walks of life
- they really have NOTHING IN COMMON!
Norris, Cromartie, Mongo, Rodman, Hull...
nah - NOTHING IN COMMON AT ALL!

Bringing them together in a wrestling ring
is just a cheap grandiloquent display of "pull"
- whether it's the WWE, Japan or WCW
they are all or were all showing
they have some contacts and some stroke...
Ultimately, that is sad
and very much pointless too;
for it does NOT enhance the spectacle
AT ALL...!

Good writing, like we saw
in the WCW/nWo saga
- now THAT enhances a show!

But that is another story...

And now to something else that leaves
the thinking man quite unphased -
grappling tarts
passing themselves off as pin-up models!
At least Cromartie did not
associate himself with those!
I see no correlation at all
between brawling bimbos
and sex-symbols.
Beth Phoenix is not titillating
(thank God for that - she's a seemingly
man-hating "glamazon" after all)
and the rest of them strike me
as more annoying than anything else
(Jillian, Melina & Maria, certainly,
and to a lesser extent, Mickie James, pictured)
Sometimes, all I do see there
is wannabee porn actresses
looking ridiculous trying to "fight"...!
As scantily-clad as they always are to be found,
every move risks exxxposing them
(not that Candice Michelle minds that)
so, they might as well be with Jenna's club!
They already misuse the term "divas" -
while further perverting the American lexicon
with the addition to the Merriam-Webster's
of the 'un-word' per excellence - "smackdown"!
No need, really, to diminish the impact
that true sex-symbols
(like, say, Marilyn and Bette)
true supermodels
(Giselle... Cindy Crawford... Christie Brinkley)
and real catwalk legends
(Inès de la Fressange)
by diluting the only real contribution
of all of these and more like them -
by allowing just any tart of the squared circle
to pose glamourously
and act (faux) "divaish" any...!