Oscar winner Jennifer Jones dead at 90

Yahoo - AP ^ | 12/17/09 | Bob Thomas

[imfrmdixie]

I had to watch this movie over and over and over again because it was the favorite of the nuns at my school of nursing.

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Thanks devolve. That picture on the left was small and enlarged well. It’s somewhat similar to some of your Jame Bond scenes.

[Ramius]

Ah, the good old days, when hot women were laying out in the desert to be tripped over...

LOL. "How extravagant you are, throwing away women like that. Someday they may be scarce."

[patriot08]

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I know. I loved the music in ‘Portrait of Jennie’.

Here is a list of old movie stars and celebs still living that you might find interesting:

The following 294 living people are all at least 80 years old:
(*) indicates 90 to 99 (56 people on this list)
(!) indicates 100 and over (1 person on this list)

Julie Adams - actress, “Creature From the Black Lagoon”
Marty Allen - game show panelist
Ed Ames - tomahawk-throwing actor
Richard Anderson - actor, “The Six Million Dollar Man”
Patty Andrews - singer, the Andrews Sisters
Bill Archer - U.S. congressman
James Arness - actor, “Gunsmoke”
Ed Asner - actor, Lou Grant
Richard Attenborough - film director, “Gandhi”
Lauren Bacall - actress
Chuck Barris - TV host, “The Gong Show”
Dave Brubek - jazz pianist
Hal David - songwriter, “What the World Needs Now is Love”
Conrad Bain - actor, “Diff’rent Strokes”
Howard Baker Jr. - U.S. senator/White House chief of staff
Roger Bannister - runner
Bob Barker - game show host
(*) Gene Barry - actor, “War of the Worlds”
Harry Belafonte - calypso singer
Orson Bean - actor, “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”
Pope Benedict XVI - Roman Catholic pope
Tony Bennett - singer
Yogi Berra - baseball player
Chuck Berry - rock ‘n’ roll pioneer
James Best - actor, “The Dukes of Hazzard”
(*) Barbara Billingsley - actress, “Leave It to Beaver”
George Blanda - Hall of Fame NFL football player
(*) Ernest Borgnine - actor
Robert Bork - U.S. Supreme Court nominee
Frank Borman - U.S. astronaut
Tom Bosley - actor, “Happy Days”
Boutros Boutros-Ghali - U.N. secretary-general
Ray Bradbury - science fiction author
Ben Bradlee - editor, The Washington Post
Peter Breck - actor, “The Big Valley”
Mel Brooks - director, “Young Frankenstein”
Joyce Brothers - advice columnist
Helen Gurley Brown - editor, “Cosmopolitan”
Barbara Bush - U.S. first lady
George Bush - U.S. president
(*) Robert Byrd - U.S. senator
(*) Frank Cady - actor; “Green Acres”
Sid Caesar - actor
Charlie Callas - comedian
Pierre Cardin - fashion designer
Scott Carpenter - U.S. astronaut, Project Mercury
Jimmy Carter - U.S. president
Rosalynn Carter - U.S. first lady
Fidel Castro - Cuban dictator
Carol Channing - actress
Jack T. Chick - Christian cartoonist/publisher
Noam Chomsky - leftist linguist
Dick Clark - TV host and producer
Robert Clary - actor, “Hogan’s Heroes”
Mike Connors - actor, “Mannix”
Denton Cooley - heart surgeon
Jackie Cooper - actor
(*) “Professor” Irwin Corey - comedian
Javier Perez de Cuellar - U.N. secretary-general
Tony Curtis - actor
Bill Daily - actor, “I Dream of Jeannie”
Vic Damone - singer, “On the Street Where You Live”
Jean Darling - actress, “The Little Rascals”
Hal David - songwriter, “What the World Needs Now is Love”
Al Davis - pro sports executive, Oakland/L.A. Raiders
Ann B. Davis - actress, “The Brady Bunch”
Doris Day - actress
Dorothy DeBorba - actress, “The Little Rascals”
(*) Olivia De Havilland - actress
(*) Dino De Laurentiis - film producer
Jimmy Dean - singer/sausage producer
Jeremiah Denton - U.S. POW in Vietnam / U.S. senator
Little Jimmy Dickens - country singer
(*) Phyllis Diller - actress
Anatoly Dobrynin - Soviet diplomat
(*) Bobby Doerr - baseball player
Bob Dole - U.S. senator
Fats Domino - rock and roll pioneer
(*) Kirk Douglas - actor
Hugh Downs - TV host
Deanna Durbin - actress, “Three Smart Girls”
Richard Dysart - actor, “L.A. Law”
Blake Edwards - film director, “The Pink Panther”
Queen Elizabeth II - British head of state
Nanette Fabray - actress
Peter Falk - actor, Columbo
Jules Feiffer - cartoonis, “The New Yorker”
Al Feldstein - editor, “MAD”
(*) Bob Feller - baseball player
Tom Foley - U.S. speaker of the House
Fyvush Finkel - actor, “Boston Public”
Eddie Fisher - singer
(*) Joan Fontaine - actress
(*) Betty Ford - U.S. first lady
Whitey Ford - Hall of Fame baseball player
(*) John Forsythe - actor
Bernard Fox - actor, “Bewitched”
Jonathan Frid - actor, “Dark Shadows”
(*) Zsa Zsa Gabor - actress
Joe Garagiola - major leaguer & TV host
James Garner - actor, “The Rockford Files”
(*) Betty Garrett - actress, “Laverne & Shirley”
Valery Giscard d’Estaing - French president
John Glenn - U.S. astronaut & senator
Richard Gordon - U.S. astronaut, Apollo 12
Berry Gordy - record producer, Motown
(*) Michael Gough - actor, “Batman”
(*) Billy Graham - evangelist
Andy Griffith - actor
Peter Graves - actor, “Mission: Impossible”
Shecky Greene - comedian
Robert Guillaume - actor, “Benson”
Alexander Haig - U.S. general & cabinet member
Barbara Hale - actress, “Perry Mason”
Monty Hall - game show host
Milo Hamilton - baseball announcer
Pat Harrington Jr. - actor, “One Day at a Time”
Donald Harron - actor, “Hee Haw”
Ray Harryhausen - film producer, “Jason and the Argonauts”
(*) Ernie Harwell - baseball announcer, Detroit Tigers
(*) Knut Haugland - explorer, Kon-Tiki
Richard “Racehorse” Haynes - criminal defense attorney
Hugh Hefner - publisher, “Playboy”
Hal Holbrook - actor, “Lincoln”
Ernest Hollings - U.S. senator
(*) Lena Horne - singer
Gordie Howe - NHL hockey player
Lee Iacocca - automobile manufacturer
(*) Monte Irvin - Hall of Fame baseball player
Al Jaffee - cartoonist, “MAD”
Sonny James - country singer
Conrad Janis - actor, “Mork and Mindy”
Arte Johnson - actor, “Laugh-In”
Russell Johnson - actor, “Gilligan’s Island”
Jennifer Jones - actress, “The Song of Bernadette”
Bil Keane - cartoonist, “The Family Circus”
George Kennedy - actor, “The Naked Gun”
Tom Kennedy - game show host, “Password Plus”
Jack Kevorkian - assisted suicide practitioner
Ralph Kiner - Hall of Fame baseball player
B.B. King - blues musician
Henry Kissinger - U.S. secretary of state
Jack Klugman - actor
Ed Koch - mayor of New York
(*) C. Everett Koop - surgeon general
Sid Krofft - TV producer, “Land of the Lost”
(*) Jack LaLanne - fitness guru
Jake LaMotta - boxer, middleweight champion
Angela Lansbury - actress, “Murder, She Wrote”
Lyndon LaRouche - U.S. presidential candidate
Don Larsen - major leaguer, NY Yankees
Tommy Lasorda - major-league manager
Frank Lautenberg - U.S. senator
Cloris Leachman - actress, “Phyllis”
Norman Lear - TV producer
Christopher Lee - horror film actor
Stan Lee - comic book writer, “Spiderman”
Tom Lehrer - musical satirist, “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”
Len Lesser - actor, “Seinfeld”
Jerry Lewis - actor, “The Nutty Professor”
(*) Art Linkletter - TV host and pitchman
James Lipton - TV host, “Inside the Actor’s Studio”
June Lockhart - actress, “Lost In Space”
Gina Lollobrigida - actress
(*) Herbert Lom - actor, “The Pink Panther”
Jim Lovell - U.S. astronaut
(*) Lee MacPhail - baseball executive
(*) Nelson Mandela - South African politician
Benoit Mandelbrot - mathematician, fractals
Imelda Marcos - Philippine first lady
Rose Marie - actress/game show panelist
Peter Marshall - game show host, “The Hollywood Squares”
George Martin - music producer, The Beatles
Nan Martin - actress, “The Drew Carey Show”
(*) Tony Martin - singer/actor
Jim McDivitt - U.S. astronaut, Apollo 9
George McGovern - U.S. senator
John McLaughlin - political commentator/host
Robert Michel - U.S. congressman
(*) Marvin Miller - baseball players negotiator
(*) Mitch Miller - bandleader
(*) Al Molinaro - actor, “Happy Days”
Walter Mondale - U.S. vice president
Roger Moore - actor, James Bond
(*) Harry Morgan - actor
Ennio Morricone - film soundtrack composer, “The Mission”
Hosni Mubarak - Egyptian president
Roger Mudd - TV journalist
Stan Musial - basball player
(*) Yasuhiro Nakasone - Japanese prime minister
Noel Neill - actress, “Adventures of Superman”
Bob Newhart - actor, “The Bob Newhart Show”
(*) Edwin Newman - newscaster
Leslie Nielsen - actor, “The Naked Gun”
James Noble - actor, “Benson”
Hugh O’Brian - actor, “Wyatt Earp”
Maureen O’Hara - actress
Patti Page - singer, “The Doggie in the Window”
Arnold Palmer - golfer
(*) Don Pardo - TV announcer, “Saturday Night Live”
Fess Parker - actor, “Davy Crockett”
Joe Paterno - college football coach
Shimon Peres - Israeli prime minister
William Perry - U.S. secretary of defense
Prince Philip of the U.K. - British royal family member
Bum Phillips - NFL football coach
T. Boone Pickens - oil industry executive
Sidney Poitier - actor
Ray Price - country singer
Charlotte Rae - actress, “The Facts of Life”
James Randi - magician
Joyce Randolph - actress, “The Honeymooners”
Nancy Reagan - U.S. first lady
Carl Reiner - actor/director
Don Rickles - comedian
(*) Oral Roberts - preacher
Pernell Roberts - actor, “Bonanza”
Robin Roberts - Hall of Fame baseball player
Cliff Robertson - actor, “Charly”
Dale Robertson - actor, westerns
(*) David Rockefeller - chairman, Chase Manhattan bank
(*) Andy Rooney - TV news commentator
Mickey Rooney - actor
Al Rosen - baseball executive
Marion Ross - actress, “Happy Days”
Dan Rostenkowski - U.S. congressman
Jane Russell - actress & bra spokeswoman
Eva Marie Saint - actress, “North By Northwest”
(*) J. D. Salinger - author, “Catcher in the Rye”
Vidal Sassoon - hairdresser
Phyllis Schlafly - activist, Eagle Forum
(*) Helmut Schmidt - W. German chancellor
James Schlesinger - U.S. secretary of defense
Red Schoendienst - baseball manager
Robert Schuller - preacher
(*) Sherwood Schwartz - TV producer
Earl Scruggs - banjo player, “The Ballad of Jed Clampett”
Vin Scully - baseball announcer, Los Angeles Dodgers
(*) Pete Seeger - folk musician
Maurice Sendak - children’s writer, “Where the Wild Things Are”
Doc Severinsen - bandleader, “The Tonight Show”
Ravi Shankar - sitar player
(*) Yitzak Shamir - Israeli prime minister
Ariel Sharon - Israeli prime minister
(!) George Beverly Shea - gospel singer
Liz Sheridan - actress, “Seinfeld”
(*) Sargent Shriver - U.S. political candidate
George Shultz - U.S. cabinet secretary
Neil Simon - playwright, “The Odd Couple”
Duke Snider - Hall of Fame baseball player
Jean Stapleton - actress, Edith Bunker
John Paul Stevens - U.S. supreme court justice
Ted Stevens - U.S. senator
Jerry Stiller - actor, “Seinfeld”
Larry Storch - actor, “F-Troop”
Alan Sues - actor, “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In”
Gordie Tapp - performer, “Hee Haw”
Chuck Tanner - baseball manager, Pittsburgh Pirates
Shirley Temple - actress
Margaret Thatcher - British prime minister
Helen Thomas - White House reporter
Frank Thornton - actor, “Are You Being Served?”
Grant Tinker - TV executive (NBC)
Y. A. Tittle - Hall of Fame football player
(*) Abigail Van Buren - advice columnist
Dick Van Patten - actor, “Eight is Enough”
Gloria Vanderbilt - fashion designer
Dick Van Dyke - actor
Gore Vidal - novelist, “Lincoln”
Abe Vigoda - actor, “Barney Miller”
Paul Volcker - chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve
Claus von Bulow - acquitted attempted murder defendant
Ralph Waite - actor, “The Waltons”
Clint Walker - actor, “Cheyenne”
Mort Walker - cartoonist, “Beetle Bailey”
(*) Mike Wallace - TV journalist
(*) Eli Wallach - actor
Joseph Wapner - television judge
John Warner - U.S. senator
(*) Kitty Wells - country singer
Adam West - actor, “Batman”
Ruth Westheimer - sex counselor
Betty White - actress
Slim Whitman - country singer
Andy Williams - singer, “Moon River”
Dick Williams - Hall of Fame baseball manager
Esther Williams - swimmer
Roger Williams - pianist, “Born Free”
Jonathan Winters - comedian
(*) John Wooden - NCAA basketball coach
Jim Wright - U.S. speaker of the House
Chuck Yeager - test pilot
Alan Young - actor, “Mister Ed”
(*) Efrem Zimbalist Jr. - actor

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Here are the most recent changes to the list above:

Ed Asner - turned 80
Dick Clark - turned 80
(*) Anatoly Dobrynin - turned 90
Berry Gordy - turned 80
Conrad Janis - added
Maurice Sendak - added
(!) Claude Levi-Strauss - died
(*) Joseph Wapner - turned 90
(*) Alan Young - turned 90

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http://www.whosaliveandwhosdead.com/actors.asp

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[devolve]

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Yes - a few beach scenes in Thunderball

Big hit theme song back then in “Love Is A Many Splintered Thing” -

[deannadurbin]

I’ve always loved her. My favorite performance of hers was in Lubitsch’s comedy Cluny Brown. She gave an absolutely delightful performance. She was great at comedy as well as drama.

[potlatch]

Yes, that is a great song and was a big hit.

[ a few beach scenes in Thunderball]
I have a picture of Sean Connery and Ursula ‘Undress’ that is similar to the one above. lol

[mpackard]

you ARE silly!!!!

[devolve]

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That was in the first Bond flick:

Dr No

On the beach

[potlatch]

[That was in the first Bond flick:
Dr No
On the beach]
>>>>

On the Beach flick;
Debra Kerr [sp?] and Bert Lancaster

LOL

[devolve]

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Burt Lancaster & Deborah Kerr

FROM HERE TO MATURITY

I have the surf/beach scene somewhere

Gregory Peck & Ava Gardner

ON THE BEACH

[potlatch]

Can’t you just let me alone to design my own movies!!!??
LOLOL.

At least it wasn’t From Here To Maternity for Deborah.....
Shoot, I don’t remember On The Beach with Peck and Gardner.

[patriot08]

Mini Biography

One of the world's most underrated Academy Award-winning actresses, Jennifer Jones was born Phyllis Lee Isley on 2 March 1919 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

As a young aspiring actress she met and fell for young aspiring actor Robert Walker and they soon married, moving to Chicago in order to fufill their dreams of becoming movie stars. When their plans fell through, Phyllis began working as a model, sporting mainly hats, gloves and jewellery, as well as occasionally finding some work on local radio stations providing her voice to various characters in radio programmes along with her husband. In a last-ditch attempt to pursue her dream, Phyllis travelled to the Selznick studios for a reading that would ultimately change her life. It was that day that she met David O. Selznick and after that particular audition her career began to take shape. Initially, Phyllis thought that the audition had went terribly and stormed out of the studios in tears, only to be chased by Selznick who assured her that she had been fine. Although she wasn't given that particular part, Phyllis was given a contract with Selznick studios, changing her name to Jennifer Jones, and was cast over thousands of other hopefuls in the role of Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette (1943).

For her innocent, sweet and moving portrayal of the sickly teenager who sees a vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes and devotes her life to her by becoming a nun and then ultimately dies of bone cancer, Jones won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role on 2 March 1944 - coincidentally her 25th birthday - beating out stiff competition such as Ingrid Bergman (who later became a close friend of hers), Greer Garson, Joan Fontaine and Jean Arthur.

Now a Hollywood star, Jones' career was marked out and molded for her by Selznick, who would become the love of her life, and whom she would later marry.

Jones took on the supporting role of Jane Hilton, a headstrong teenage girl who in the end grows up fast when her fiance is killed in action during WWII, in Since You Went Away (1944). For her performance Jones received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination, losing out to Ethel Barrymore for None But the Lonely Heart (1944). Jennifer continued to deliver strong performances, receiving further Best Actress Oscar nominations for Love Letters (1945) (she lost out to Joan Crawford for Mildred Pierce (1945)) and Duel in the Sun (1946), (she lost out to Olivia de Havilland for To Each His Own (1946)) which saw her cast against type as seductive half-breed Pearl Chavez.

Throughout the remainder of the 1940s Jones continued to produce memorable performances, such as in Portrait of Jennie (1948), which carried her into the 1950s and saw her receive her fifth and final Oscar nomination for Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), losing out to Anna Magnani for The Rose Tattoo (1955). However, despite her obvious success within the film industry Jones was a very private person and managed to stay out of the spotlight which dominated so many other actresses of the time. As a result Jones began to become less and less noticed, which increased further when Selznick died in 1965. Films roles began to appear less and less and after a moderately successful supporting performance in The Towering Inferno (1974) Jones decided to make this her swansong and bowed out of the film industry. She did, however, try to revive her film career in later years by campaigning for the role of Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment (1983), but Shirley MacLaine was cast instead and as a result won the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance.

Unfortunately now in the 21st Century and in her 90th year, Jennifer Jones is relatively unknown in comparison to the other actresses of her time such as Ingrid Bergman, Katharine Hepburn, Greer Garson, Bette Davis etc. But for those that are aware of her and her extraordinary talent she is alluring to watch and her acting abilities extend far greater than most of her contemporaries.

Spouse- Norton Simon (30 May 1971 - 1 June 1993) (his death) David O. Selznick (13 July 1949 - 22 June 1965) (his death) 1 child

Robert Walker (2 January 1939 - 20 June 1945) (divorced) 2 children

Movies:

The Towering Inferno (1974) .... Lisolette Muller

Angel, Angel, Down We Go (1969) .... Astrid Steele ... aka Cult of the Damned (USA: reissue title)

The Idol (1966) .... Carol

Tender Is the Night (1962) .... Nicole Diver

A Farewell to Arms (1957) .... Catherine Barkley

The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957) .... Elizabeth Barrett

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) .... Betsy Rath

Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955) .... Miss Dove

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) .... Dr. Han Suyin

Beat the Devil (1953) .... Mrs. Gwendolen Chelm ... aka Il tesoro dell'Africa (Italy)

Stazione Termini (1953) .... Mary Forbes ... aka Indiscretion (UK) ... aka Indiscretion of an American Wife (USA) ... aka Station Terminus (International: English title) ... aka Terminal Station ... aka Terminal Station Indiscretion (International: English title) ... aka Terminus Station (International: English title)

Ruby Gentry (1952) .... Ruby Gentry

Carrie (1952) .... Carrie Meeber

The Wild Heart (1952) .... Hazel Woodus ... aka Gypsy Blood

Gone to Earth (1950) .... Hazel Woodus

Madame Bovary (1949) .... Emma Bovary

We Were Strangers (1949) .... China Valdés

Portrait of Jennie (1948) .... Jennie Appleton

... aka Jennie (UK) ... aka Tidal Wave

Duel in the Sun (1946) .... Pearl Chavez ... aka King Vidor's Duel in the Sun (UK: complete title) (USA: complete title)

Cluny Brown (1946) .... Cluny Brown

American Creed (1946)

Love Letters (1945) .... Singleton

Since You Went Away (1944) .... Jane Deborah Hilton

The Song of Bernadette (1943) .... Bernadette ... aka Franz Werfel's The Song of Bernadette (USA: complete title)

Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939) (as Phyllis Isley) .... Gwen Andrews

The Streets of New York (1939)

Trivia

Was represented by the John Robert Powers agency as a fashion model in the 1930s.

Mother of Robert Walker Jr. and Michael Walker.

Her daughter with David O. Selznick, Mary Jennifer Selznick, killed herself on May 11, 1976, only two days after Mother's Day.

Turned 25 years old on the day that she won the Oscar for The Song of Bernadette (1943).

Attended Northwestern University.

She is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She was initiated into the Tau chapter (Northwestern) in 1937.

In 1981 she bought the rights to Larry McMurtry's novel "Terms of Endearment" with the intention of starring in the film but director James Brooks told her that she was too old for the part. The role eventually went to 'Shirley Maclaine', who won an Oscar.

Chairman of the Norton Simon Museum.

In 1980 she donated $1 million to establish the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation for Mental Health and Education

Once had interest in returning to the screen to play convicted murderess Jean Harris but abandoned the project when Ellen Burstyn appeared in a successful televised movie.

She is a breast cancer survivor.

Daughter Mary Jennifer Selznick was born Aug 12, 1954 and committed suicide on May 11, 1976.

Was a good friend of Peggy Knudsen.

Her first Oscar nomination for The Song of Bernadette (1943) marks her first of 4 consecutive nominations, a feat she shares with Thelma Ritter (1950-53), Marlon Brando (1951-54) Elizabeth Taylor (1957-60) and Al Pacino (1972-75).

Son Michael Walker born on March 13, 1941.

Son Robert Walker Jr. born on April 15, 1940.

Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is at 6429 Hollywood Blvd.

1956 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role for: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)

1947 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role for: Duel in the Sun (1946)

1946 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role for: Love Letters (1945)

1945 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Supporting Role for: Since You Went Away (1944)

1944 Won Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role for: The Song of Bernadette (1943)

David di Donatello Awards 1975 Won Special David Shared with: Fred Astaire

German Film Awards 1997 - Lifetime Achievement Award

Golden Globes, USA 1975 Nominated Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for: The Towering Inferno (1974)

1944 Won Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actress for: The Song of Bernadette (1943)

Photoplay Awards 1955 Won Most Popular Female Star

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428354/

[devolve]

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Sor-Reeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

[lonestar]

There was a real “Lust in the Dust.”

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Gene Barry and Oral Roberts died this week.

[ErnBatavia]

Natural beauty, no fake implants or trout lips.

Better, yet, no tattoozles!

[fieldmarshaldj]

I was a little kid when I saw her character’s death in “The Towering Inferno.” It’s given me a lifelong phobia of glass elevators. =8-0

[potlatch]

[Better, yet, no tattoozles! ]

Yeah, the tats are cheap looking. But I'm old fashioned and think the girls with the extreme ‘enhancements’ look cheap too. The guys love it though, what does that say??