Sleazy profs, self-description, movies, David's dirty laundry

[Tabouli]

Humph, I'm fed up with waiting for my next OT digest to arrive, I'm just going to copy and paste off the website.

> Naama, who thinks sleazy professors are sleazier than anything else

I have indeed heard men saying that the lecture theatre full of beautiful young things is one of the major perks of becoming an academic.  And know of at least one lecturer who used to sit on the desk at the front of the room so he could look down the shirts of girls in the front row.  Not to mention quite a number of older male supervisors who mysteriously end up leaving their wives for their postgraduate students!  Though I have to wonder whether this is not so much that professors are particularly sleazy, but that professors' jobs provide greater opportunity for this sort of thing...

Rita (who compared herself very amusingly to Mrs Figg):
> Pippin looks like this model grown-up: http://www.roamans.com/roamans/product/product.asp?pf_id=18932&dept_id
=722&parent_id=721&<

Oo, very Meg Ryanesque.  Always thought Meg was quite cute, myself (oh yes, and in answer to someone's musing, I'm aesthetically quite bi, and appreciate good hair on women as well!  The glory of hair is genderless)

> I imagine Tabouli looking like this model (note the big smile), except 
>wearing jeans and a sweater instead of a witchy dress robe:
http://www.roamans.com/roamans/product/product.asp?pf_id=18836&dept_id
=701&parent_id=700&<

The grin is on track <ebg>, but, hm, not quite the right type.  Let me see if I can fine-tune those mental images using this model as a starting point.  I'm nowhere near that tall and willowy, of course: I'm just under 5'2" and my body is of a shape which was popular among French artists in the late 19th century, but is sadly unfashionable in the 90s and 00s era of top-heavy, hipless and leggy (Tabouli feels she should push for a 1890s retro revival).  Dresses shaped like the one pictured actually suit my figure very well (better than jeans and sweater), fitting closely over neat upper body and concealing the unfashionable presence of hips, though I'd have to cut the usual six inches off the bottom due to short leg issues.  My face is broader and paler than the model, and my eyes and nose are larger.  To most people I look more Southern European than Asian.


Cindy:
> I would like to nominate OT-Chatter's newest
member and gorgeous hunk of man-flesh, Luke, as our Mr. March. Rumor 
has it that he is a cross between George Clooney and Russell Crowe<

Then there's the ol' try to construct my face out of a combination of famous faces... interesting exercise.  Let me see, famous women with round faces, large features and dark hair... (Tabouli is tempted to say Catherine Zeta-Jones, but candour sadly forbids) ... maybe Janeane Garofalo diluted with some Audrey Tatou as Amelie?  (I'm invisible behind a computer screen... why not flatter myself?)

How about everyone else?  Any other attempts at photofitting?  (all details about hair welcome)

On the subject of those last two actors, is it just me that thinks that in "The Truth About Cats and Dogs" the supposedly plain Janeane is looking a lot better than the supposedly beautiful Uma Thurman (and who on earth selected Uma's gruesome outfits in that movie?  Was there some ironic joke there I missed?)?  Uma has an interesting, unusual face, but that film doesn't flatter her.  Of course, having just suggested that I look a little like Janeane, if anyone, there could be some wishful thinking involved here.  All the same, this film, like the famed Cyrano de Bergerac, has some musings on the fictional character issue...

As for 'Amelie', this is a very amusing and charming film, and to be recommended.  I'm not usually that amused by French comedy, but this really appealed to my sense of humour, much more so than 'Delicatessen'.  Again, there may have been a self-serving element there... about halfway through, the person I saw it with a few days ago (who knows me very well, and even bravely shared a house with me for six months) was glancing suspiciously at my bright eyes and broadening grin.

"Why," she said drily, "do I suspect that you are not only identifying with Amelie, but cheering her on?"
"Moi?" I replied innocently, my grin broadening still further.
"Toi," she replied pointedly.  "The resemblance is disturbing.  She's even *worse* than you are!"

David:
> ...and have you read Pullman?

I get asked this question on average at least once a week, but no, not yet.  As I said off-list to Jenny, my brain is currently on Output mode, hence vast quantities of posts to HPFGU, but great difficulty in getting it to accept anything other than the most lightweight and digestible input.  Hence watching films and rereading children's books!  When Input mode rolls around again I'll get onto it.

David:
> I think I would eventually want a physical meeting (not saying that for some people 
>it couldn't stay virtual *and* be all they ever wanted) and all that 
>entails. To me commitment is a fundamental part of the whole deal 
>(which is why all this is hypothetical) and so you have to get to 
>grips with the other person's dirty laundry, at every level 

>> David (wearing a cloud of pink chiffon, a strand of pearls and glittery pink make-up) is Mr. February and everyone's favorite Valentine. 
>
>Er, could we just remove Tabouli's outrageous boot-marks from the 
>chiffon first, please.

(Tabouli feels that we should leave the boot-marks there to convey that  (a) David is a genuine, non-dandified non-fastidious regular guy, and of course (b) help the listmembers come to grips with David's own dirty laundry...)


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