Dan – I often wonder what it is like. It has to be through the looking glass – but of course if you’re that beautiful you don’t know any other way. It’s kind of fascinating. Has a book really been written about such a phenomenon?
I can’t think of any title that covers that ground, but my knowledge of writing about an by movie folks is very limited compared to yours. And as you said, if you’re that beautiful that’s your reality, your normalcy. Maybe I overstate the burden. I mean, as humans we’re capable of adapting all sorts of stuff, good and bad into our every day existence.
Dan – I know one truly off-the-charts beautiful person (although I think everyone I love is beautiful – but this person is empirically beautiful). She’s a good friend of mine. She’s smart, capable, funny, she looks like Christy Turlington. And she is aware of the effect she has on people, and she can’t help it – I have seen how she is underestimated IMMEDIATELY – and when she says something smart, it’s like people can’t even register what she said. OR I have seen people (men, mostly) be so dazzled that they are either hostile to her – to resist the power she immediately has over them – or they fawn over her in a way that is condescending. It’s truly bizarre to watch.
She’s happily married with a son, and a busy life, but I’ve often wondered what it is like for her, on the inside. She seems to have worked it out. But still, it’s amazing to watch people literally fall over like ninepins when they first meet her.
I love that photo. She looks so natural, so real.
Astonishing. I can’t help but think that along with Grace Kelly she is the most beautiful woman ever captured on screen.
I agree. Her beauty is almost otherworldly.
Otherworldly is a great way to put it; looking at pictures of her it’s easy to ask ‘how is this possible?’ It must have been a burden at times.
Dan – I often wonder what it is like. It has to be through the looking glass – but of course if you’re that beautiful you don’t know any other way. It’s kind of fascinating. Has a book really been written about such a phenomenon?
from the inside, I mean – a book written from the perspective of someone who is that beautiful?
I suppose life is as normal as anyone else’s – but there’s that other element …
I can’t think of any title that covers that ground, but my knowledge of writing about an by movie folks is very limited compared to yours. And as you said, if you’re that beautiful that’s your reality, your normalcy. Maybe I overstate the burden. I mean, as humans we’re capable of adapting all sorts of stuff, good and bad into our every day existence.
Dan – I know one truly off-the-charts beautiful person (although I think everyone I love is beautiful – but this person is empirically beautiful). She’s a good friend of mine. She’s smart, capable, funny, she looks like Christy Turlington. And she is aware of the effect she has on people, and she can’t help it – I have seen how she is underestimated IMMEDIATELY – and when she says something smart, it’s like people can’t even register what she said. OR I have seen people (men, mostly) be so dazzled that they are either hostile to her – to resist the power she immediately has over them – or they fawn over her in a way that is condescending. It’s truly bizarre to watch.
She’s happily married with a son, and a busy life, but I’ve often wondered what it is like for her, on the inside. She seems to have worked it out. But still, it’s amazing to watch people literally fall over like ninepins when they first meet her.