Sunday, June 21, 2009

Seems To Be A Lot Of That Going Around

"[Naomi] Wolf’s article on [Angelina] Jolie is not a standard celebrity profile. There is no interview, no encounter between the author and the object of her affection. Jolie remains an ideal, and the article is explicitly about the 'life narrative' Jolie has 'crafted,' the 'persona that [took] her to global icon.' It declares itself an essay about artifice and image. What makes the piece so compelling is Wolf's palpable yearning to believe. In the guise of analyzing Jolie’s image, she succumbs, forgetting that glamour is an illusion."

-- Virginia Postrel, pulling out those pesky NewAge buzzwords - and sticking them in quotes - so we can know they've got nothing to do with Deep Glamour.

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