Not Waiting For The Asteroid

Apparently "Household name" doesn't mean what I thought it did. I don't think that 1% of the population could tell you who Jeanne Beker is.

"The horror! The HORROR!"

I've never trusted those fashionistas since I bought that Nehru jacket in 1969. By the time I brought it home, they were out of style.

oxyngetax- You beat me to it.

If someone can dig up that ancient "Much Music" interview Jeannie Becker did with Iggy Pop, that would be awesome.

Fired is the new black.

"Fashion TV", is that the channel that used to show those gorgeous models parading down the runway in see-through blouses?

If so,I'm sorry it's going.

I'm still "reeling" over the last episode of "Little Mosque..", so am a bit numb to it all at present.

Good one, Kathy. I sent a link earlier today to a friend, with the subject header "Iggy Pop Unavailable For Comment". Another acquaintance claimed to have seen Becker and Iggy enflagante in a cube van at the first Police Picnic...

Good one, Kathy. I sent a link earlier today to a friend, with the subject header "Iggy Pop Unavailable For Comment". Another acquaintance claimed to have seen Becker and Iggy enflagante in a cube van at the first Police Picnic...

Once I was walking through one of the major dept stores (The Bay?) and passed near the women's section. There was a huge picture of lizard lady, apparently the store was featuring a line of her clothing. It was disturbing. That woman looked like some kind of large mouthed reptile.

Iggy and Jeannie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJv4yBWWfeo

"Fashion TV", is that the channel that used to show those gorgeous models parading down the runway in see-through blouses?"

Sure, that part was good, dmorris, but you had to be quick with the remote lest you be confronted with beker's face. That kind of juxtaposition can cause sexual problems which viagra just won't cure.
BTW, I was quick with the remote, so no probs...

Alas, there were many an early Saturday night I wasn't as quick with the remote. To my wife, FT meant "Fancy Ti**es".

As Kate would say, we don't need no stinking Fashion Television, headed by CBC/MSM-insider Jeanne Beker, telling Canadians how to dress.

I can figure it out all by myself, Jeanne, and I'll be a little richer seeing as the CBC's not paying you for your "expertise" anymore.

'Nice gig while you could get it.

The Globe sure has tumbled when it is using twits' tweets to cobble together a "news" story.

"The Globe sure has tumbled......"

Eh? .... Did you miss the last 40 years or something?

Tumbled from WHAT?

:-)

Is there anybody out there that will admit to have watched that program?

Has anyone actually watched a full half or an hour what ever it was?

What a loss of time that could be used for making the world better.

Heh.

I told my wife. She had never heard of the Channel. All she said was it was high time CBC cut some of their garbage. I did'nt correct her.

Her boorish interviewing style was just what was needed to communicate with the legions of gay fashion designers, who foisted all the garbage designs on women, whose ideal models more resembled an anorexic teen boy than a real woman. The kind of designs Jeanne fawned over, to show how in vogue she was.

And once more for old time sake Jeanne, let's hear the story about you and Iggy Pop getting pissed off at each other, from back in the stone age.

Maybe it will do better in the reruns.

I met Beker .... she wasn't too bad ... about 15 years ago .... kind of seedy and desperate in her efforts to hide her age... but how many other women fall into that?

She was actually quite a hoot ... and that fashion show ... as fashion shows go was probably as good as any other.

The one I cannot fathom existing is Marilyn Dennis.

Oh darn.....and I was actually thinking about possibly watching an episode this year or maybe next year.

The thing about Fashion shows is its pretty hard to have reruns without waiting about ten years till that style comes back.

I'd let Fashion contine if they'd promise to cancel an entire network instead....we all know which one. LOL

My first thought on reading the news here was, "no more boobies"? Just like everyone else's.

Who? What?

The twitterverse is sort of like the Oort cloud, bombarding the enfeebled mainstream press with comet after comet.

So the twitterverse is all abuzz about the demise of the titterverse. Makes me glad I don't do Twitter.

So she's been hosting this for 27 years? If she were a teacher or some other overcompensated government employee, she would be close to retiring with a full pension.

Who is this Beker and what is this Fashion TV? I've never heard of EITHER until today. So, yeah uhm, ground breaking? No. Narcissistic, definitely.

You've gotta wonder who Jeanne Beker knew/knows: Fashion Television's been around for 27 years.

For the past 10 to 15 years, fashions have mostly been designed and dictated to hapless females by women-hating gay males who love to see us looking our worst. That can be the only explanation for women walking around in frumpy, frouzy, baggy, colourless, formless monstrosities, thinking they're the height of fashion.

It's bloody discouraging to walk down any Toronto street and note the ugliness of the young and not-so-young women strutting their stuff: messy hair, god-awful tattoos, shapeless skirts and pants, form-hugging tops -- even on 300-pounders, runny stockings, etc. None of this stuff is cheap.

We need to get back to Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly's fashion sense: crisp, simple, elegance, the right amount of makeup, regular shampooing and hair styling ...

... and fewer women-hating gay designers, thank you very much.

My interest in fashion never moved much beyond a careful scrutiny each week to make sure
Claudia Shiffer remained in top form for the upcoming new bikini stylings each season.
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