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Saving Face: Funny Girl, Strange Mug, True Beauty

4 Jan

Sometimes even a road-tested, time-proven doyenne like Barbra Streisand can finally see her own beauty only in a rear view mirror. Despite whatever your may feel about Ms. Streisand’s visage, at age 68, the self-admitted insecure-about-her-looks star has finally come to see herself as “quite beautiful as a young woman.” The only critic’s voice that counts.

The star of “Funny Girl” warred with her own insecurities about her unconventional looks growing up (when blondes (and “blonde” obsession) not only ruled, but were The Rule, no matter how coloring mismatched and horrible it actually made them look) in a time when the standard of beauty was even narrower than today.

Babs told Britain’s OK! magazine, “Recently, doing DVDs, I’ve had to look at myself in old movies or on album covers… I thought, I really looked good there. Why didn’t I know that then?

“But I do have a strange face. It changes so much from angle to angle. Sometimes I think I really did look quite beautiful and a lot of times I looked really bad. It’s a shame. But I’m not going to cry over it. I’m trying to be in the moment, I’m enjoying my life.”

So if you feel like an outcast, too fat or flat, too short or tall, too 2-D or big nosed, wrong hair-textured, or…otherwise not neatly slipping inside the skinny bitch lines of today’s beauty standard, take heed in the wisdom of TIME and space exemplified by a successful, actually beau coup talented, real life Diva like Barbra Streisand. Don’t waste time!, realize now that you — in all your weird, gawky and terrible beauty — are today as beautiful as you ever were and were meant to be. Get over it to share it, flaunt it and take a saucy smelling bubble bath in it, darlin’. YOU ARE GORGEOUS. — PopSmartsZen

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Oops!, Chris Brown Did It Again

1 Jan

Former good boy Disney singer turned notorious girlfriend beater, Chris Brown, is still evolving — this time into a homophobic Twit. Even though he’s apologizing to former B2K star RazB, Brown’s growing pattern still shows signs of his (albeit successful yet) highjacked childhood’s lack of discipline and character-building boundaries. Not to mention airing his dirty homophobic, misogynistic, abusive psychology for all the world to see. Who’s your mama, again?? And why do you think young fans should pay to be influenced by you?

To get back at RazB’s comments condemning how badly he treated his ex- Rihanna, Brown slap-Tweeted RazB’s previous allegations of sexual assault during his time in B2K: “”Tell me this. … Why when the money was coming in u won’t complaining (sic) about getting bu**plugged!”

I don’t care how old he’s getting, Chris Brown’s growth trajectory shows he needs (and missed out on) a good spanking — if that’s too unPC for you, then an indefinite Time Out with expectations he grow up and start thinking of someone other than himself.

Support your own best values — stop funding Chris Brown’s allowance now.   — PopSmartsZen


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Marriage Hard Work!, Keith Says of Mick Jagger

26 Oct

“He’s full of piss; someone has to extract it,” Keith Richards explains of his own best practices in handling the ginormous bladder that is bandmate Mick Jagger’s ego. Marriages that last are because the choice to do the work has been made, and the Rolling Stones jumped the broom in 1962. Whoa.

Over the years Richards has nicked down Jagger’s ego by mocking his love of royalty and calling him a “dictator.” But always with love.

Richards is pimping his new memoir Life in which he tells all about his lifelong bud’s out of control ego, and told the BBC the behavior “started to annoy me and then slowly enraged me.” So how did he avoid splitsville? Decades have showed him that “nobody has the perfect marriage.”  — PopSmarts

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Today’s Pop Stars Disappoint Yesterday’s Pop Star

23 Oct

Elton John said a mouthful when he complained about today’s pop stars as being completely forgettable in the coming decades, and cited Jennifer Lopez in his example. He said they rely too heavily on songwriters for their hits.

John feels that those crooners who can’t write, fail to truly connect with their fans. “Now it’s all about getting on the radio instead of making quality music.

“Nobody’s gonna be singing ‘Jenny from the Block’ in 10 year’s time.”

Not surprisingly and for so many reasons, the notable singer/songwriter, formerly of the eye-catching eyewear, likes Lady Gaga who writes “great songs” proving he ain’t no old fogey hat-ah. Good points, Rocket Man. And you absolutely earned a place to whine about the poor quality of fly-by-nights with your, “When I was young-isms”. Soulful quality work of god given talent counts.  — PopSmarts

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