Friday, September 29, 2006

Nancy Dutiel, Lancôme model


Nancy Dutiel was the spokesmodel for Lancôme cosmetics in the U.S. before Isabella Rossellini replaced her. I don't know any more about her; heck, it took me forever to find out her name!  But I sure did have a crush on her. You can guess why.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Actress Jennifer Connelly


Jennifer Connelly started out as a model for Ivory Snow detergent when she was a little baby. As the song goes, she must have been a beautiful one. She made her debut in the 1986 fantasy movie Labyrinth, then spent the nineties making a lot of forgettable movies whose only redeeming quality was that she was in them. She finally broke through as Alicia Nash, wife of crazed mathematician John Nash, in 2001's A Beautiful Mind.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

More of Vivian Brown


Vivian Brown has been at The Weather Channel since the day it went on the air, or almost. Things could have worked out differently for her; a top college track star, she was a favorite for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and President Carter told Olympic hopefuls that they wouldn't be going to the 1980 Moscow Games.

That seems like eons ago, but time certainly hasn't diminished her beauty.

Monday, September 25, 2006

Vivian Brown of The Weather Channel

French actress Fanny Ardant


This is my first picture, so I'll start alphabetically. :-) 

Fanny Ardant first became well-known in France in the early eighties after winning the title tole of Francois Truffaut's The Woman Next Door, then winning a role in Truffaut's personal life as his girlfriend. She starred in what would be his last film, Confidentially Yours.