Glamour Girl really must protest.
Since the demise of televised Oprah, GG has been getting her late afternoon fix of glamour, girl stuff, celeb sightings, psychobabble, and “lifestyle” on Katie Couric’s new show, eponymously titled like that of her predecessor.
Sometimes it’s fun, sometimes it’s boring, sometimes it’s nonsense, but ya never know. And GG likes to see what Katie’s wearing, which is always helpfully listed on her website (something I wish O had done as well).
But Wednesday, things were seriously out of whack.
The show was about life’s second acts. Reinventing yourself, especially at a later age. And the headliner was actress Madeleine Stowe, whose career has seen a resurgence with her starring role in an apparently juicy nighttime soap called “Revenge.”
But for the entire program, nobody breathed a whisper about the most obvious, impossible-to-ignore fact: Madeleine Stowe’s face has been pulled to within an inch of its life.
She’s the same age as Couric (one year’s difference), yet side by side, the two of them look like they’re from different planets. Katie, from Planet Earth. Madeleine, from the Planet of Prehistoric Women. Or maybe Nude on the Moon.
There was all this blather about how you can do anything you want at any age, and how nothing should be holding you back, and just put your mind to it, blah blah blah. Never mind the fact that Hollywood treats women like decorative objects with a limited shelf life. Never mind that Stowe wouldn’t be oozing delicious maliciousness on primetime TV if she hadn’t gotten a facelift—and an extreme one at that. No, it was all about tenacity and grit and hard work and “you look great!”
Okay, I get it: women today, especially in Hollywood, are under tremendous pressure. So why not talk about that? Why not at least acknowledge it? Instead of pretending that somehow Stowe’s mid-life career has magically taken off because producers and directors suddenly remembered her?
Judge for yourself in this picture—which, due to bloggy constraints, is too small here, so you can see the original at Katie’s website:
Anyway, at least Couric’s outfit was bangin’. I checked out those oxblood-red pumps pronto.