Last Wednesday night when I was flying from Launceston to Melbourne, to the plane’s left was a perfect winter sunset. Right then, fittingly and sublimely, my headphones were exuding the erotically exotic strains of the Bolero by Maurice Ravel. Which turned my thoughts to Bo Derek, who was exquisitely perfect when at age 23 she starred in the 1979 film 10. I wondered what she looked like now (at age 51), and I hoped she hadn’t succumbed to cosmetic surgery. If I could understand why Dolly Parton would have cosmetic surgery at her age (now 62) – which I can’t – it’s totally beyond me why Julia Roberts would at hers (now 40). My darling daughters assure me Angelina Jolie hasn’t been scalpel-enhanced. They’re either right or wrong. As a lad I thought the young Brigitte Bardot was beautiful and sexy. Now aged 73 and wrinkled, she remains surgically unaltered. Good for her. But I was disgusted, revolted even, that Terri Munro, winner of Big Brother Australia 2008, intends investing some of her A$250,000 winnings on a facelift. She’d get a better return on her shares in the current bear market. If Helen Mirren (pictured) doesn’t need the scalpel at age 63, why would Ms Munro at age 52? Don’t answer that – it’s a rhetorical question.
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