Saturday, July 11, 2009


"She was, perhaps, the last in a line that began with Betty Grable in World War II -- the bathing beauty who seemed kissed by the sun and exuded a potent combination of innocence and sexuality. But her "Charlie's Angels" jiggle-show image presaged another world. It was the one that would come to be dominated by Brooke and her Calvins and ultimately by American Apparel ads and the celebrity sex videos of Pamela Anderson and Paris Hilton."