Wacky Chicks
Life Lessons from Fearlessly Inappropriate and Fabulously Eccentric Women
Chapter One
An Uprising of Glamorous Outsiders
"Life's a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" Auntie
Mame
We've done something silly.
In our fevered quest to find gurus and role models to admire and look up to, we
have not always looked in the best places. In the 1980s, for example, a
collective screechy hysteria infected popular culture, and everybody rashly
decided that movie actors were really, really, really important. During this
recklessly superficial period, they, the movie actors, became the icons of our
age. No, we didn't pick useful people like brain surgeons, firemen or coffee
shop waitresses. We chose show-biz folk. And then we sat there like puddings and
inhaled all this drivel about the supposedly squintingly brilliant glam lives of
these celebs, and we actually started to believe the hype. And gradually by the
1990s, we strove to live vicariously through them. If only we could be
one-millionth as fabulous as Julia or Nicole or even Linda Hunt!
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