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Another Beauty!

May 8, 2008
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After I was talking earlier about how beautiful and Morgan Fairchild turned out to be, both inside and out, I came across this new shot of Olivia Newton-John, 59-year-old cancer-survivor-turned-health-advocate, looking gorgeous and youthful on the streets of DC.

It’s so interesting to me to look at these women from a different generation, many of whom have aged very gracefully and have made a new career of putting their fame to good use. Olivia’s been through so much — she battled breast cancer, watched her daughter go through a terrible struggle with anorexia, and her longtime boyfriend went missing during a fishing trip in 2005, and the case has never been solved. If anyone has a good excuse to curl up in a ball of drugs and alcohol, it’s Olivia. And yet here she is, up and smiling and supporting the causes she cares about.

I wonder if we’ll see something similar from today’s young celebs. Thirty years from now, will a sober and spiritual Lindsay Lohan appear in the tabloids just a few times a year, when she has an important cause to draw awareness to? Will Paris Hilton gradually fall into a life dedicated primarily to helping African orphans, popping up on Entertainment Weekly just every now and then to discuss their plight?

What’s interesting, see, is that Olivia was very famous in her youth, but she got nowhere near the tabloid attention that Lindsay and Paris get. Because no one did. It just wasn’t anywhere near as big a business as it is now. Even in her heyday, Olivia could show up at a club without having cameras in her face. The A-list starlets today can’t get coffee without being photographed.

Does it become an addiction? Do you begin to feel, somehow, as though you exist only through the cameras? Do you lose sight of who you actually are completely?

I think you do. I think it’s likely that the kind of fame we create for these young women today is as powerful, addictive and destructive as any drug.

I’m very interested to watch what happens with these girls as they age and the cameras show less interest.

[Image via Splash]

19 CommentsLeave a comment

  • she looks good, but there’s def plastic surgery going on there. it’d all be nicer still if she had accepted aging.. =(

  • hey beet,
    i used to sometimes read The Hedgehog Review, a contemporary culture journal from the Univ of Virginia. It has really great articles, studies, interviews, and each edition covers one topic. in 2005 they had one called Celebrity Culture. I never read it, but always wanted to order it, considering how great everything else I’d read in the journal was.

    here’s the link if you’re interested:

  • “I’m very interested to watch what happens with these girls as they age and the cameras show less interest.”

    They won’t know what to do with themselves.
    Hope they save their money.

  • that was really insightful. main reason i’d never get my daughter into anything even resembling show business.

  • I hope they never turn into boring little do-gooders!
    What am I gonna do when I’m 60 if not for reading about Grandma Paris fucking Saggy Butt Wrinkly Grandpa Chase Crawford?

  • I love Olivia and have since she was the subject of my first wet dream nearly 30 years ago. Damn…she looks good at 59!

  • toy–how condescending was it? I couldn’t tell because the article was so fucking boring I couldn’t make it past the first paragraph.

  • I saw Olivia perform at Sydney Mardi Gras earlier this year – at 4am! And she looked AMAZING. Much better than we trashbags on the dancefloor did anyway…

  • she looks good – but she has DEFINATELY had work done – and whyever not it looks subtle

  • she is so gorgeous. A friend told me she helped more than 10 herpes peole on a Positive dating site ” s t d p a l. c o m”.

  • She looks beautiful. I saw her profile on dating site “W e a l t h y L o v I n g . co m ” last week. It is said she is dating young billionaire on that site.