In the mid-1990s Princespentana spent £3,600 $$5,600) a year to keep her coiffure a suitably iconic shade of blonde.How to explain our enduring obsession with blondes and blondeness?
Forget all those blondes – count on the redhead.
The film focuses on their marriage, tested by Hitch's penchant for young blondes, and Alma's friendship with a male writer.
Both films also feature hubba-hubba blondes rather prominently – Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren in the The Girl, and Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh in Hitchcock – with the latter frankly unlikely casting.
Played here by Anthony Hopkins, in facial prosthesis and fake belly, and the neither tiny nor particularly birdlike Helen Mirren, Hitch and Alma appear as an indissoluble partnership in art and life, suddenly threatened by pressures from without (no budget) but more from within, particularly by Alfred's tendency, now tiresome to the red-haired Alma, to become obsessed with his leading blondes.
SOME gentlemen may prefer blondes, but almost all seem to like a waist to hip ratio of between 0.6 and 0.7.
The vast majority of them are Americans, including many blue-eyed blondes from the mid-west.
The front-runner had behaved all week as if he was the next leader and his campaign had gone well, despite being photographed with a couple of blondes in T-shirts with "It's DD for me" emblazoned across their breasts.
Certainly, it was a reminder of what Argentines most admire in the septuagenarian ex-president: his ability to pull blondes half his age and twice his height.But not all turned out as planned.
They are in Afrikaans (the movie is not); the Katzenjammer-Kids delivery of the parade of peroxide blondes seems somehow out of place.Back to top >>MondayJUST to clear up any misconceptions: I am not, and have never been, The Economist's South Africa correspondent.
Her years in rep had mostly consisted of playing dizzy blondes, busty typists and maids.
