You couldn't make it up dept. no.54: Cultural icons

[fpb]

One of France's leading cultural icons is the philosopher and journalist, Bernard-Henry Levy. He is about my age, tall and handsome and a ready writer, not without courage.

What I did not know till recently is that he has an equally attractive wife. She has just hit the headlines in her own right by taking up a post as lead singer in another icon of French culture - the famous strip joint "The Crazy Horse."

Comments

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

He's tall, dark, and handsome? Where are your standards, France?!

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well, that's how I remember him.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Are we grading on a curve? I guess he's better looking than several philosophers ... Socrates was no looker, right? Or was that Plato?

I've read about how bizarre it is in France (to an outsider) that their deep thinkers are celebrities over there.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

To me, the bizarre thing is that they are considered deep thinkers.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Well, I think it's bizarre that [insert American celebrity of your choice] is [insert a quality dubiously attributed to said celebrity by the general press, i.e., Anna Nicole Smith's attractiveness].

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... You just mentioned my main gripe about Kylie Minogue. How the Hell does anyone manage to become a slutty sex symbol when they are not pretty enough to be convincingly slutty?

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

I keep wanting to rearrange the words in your sentence somehow ... is prettiness a prerequisite for being slutty? I thought the only thing you needed to qualify was a pulse. I do think you should be, at the least, pleasant to look at in order to be a sex symbol. At least until they invent Braille photography.