> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > <<You can put me in the list of those who don't think Joni has had
surgery.
> > Having been in her company, I am positive that her aura and radiance
give the
> > illusion of a younger person as opposed to something artificial. I feel
that
> > Joni values her years, and admires people like Georgia O'Keefe that have
the
> > signs of truth & beauty about them.>>
>
> and now Mags wonders aloud:
>
> could it be that our Joni exemplifies the radiant beauty found in Canadian
women?
Nice response, Mags! I don't think Joni has had plastic surgery. I've been
intrigued by the subject, so have been checking out as many recent photos as
I can. She has the "looseness" around the jowl area, and her neck is not
the smooth expanse of skin it once was (a fairly clinical analysis of my
hero)! I'm sure if she'd had surgery, that would be something that would
have been attended to. Joni is one of those lucky women with high
cheekbones, and a naturally slim figure, and she's just aging very
gracefully.
And this from the articles section of www.jmdl.com (The New Joni Mitchell -
London Times Magazine, Feb 26, 2000):
But what about those other facelifts, the non-smiling, very surgical ones?
The effects of age on beauty? The increased-effort-for-less-reward-thing
that Cher spoke about? "Oh, I think I always sat on the cusp of beauty
anyway," Mitchell shrugs. "No one was ever quite sure if I was beautiful or
ugly, pretty or plain. It seemed interpretable. Quite possibly, it changed
from day to day. Because I've got a rubber face. Look! It can hold a
Garbo-like pose..." She demonstrates. "But then, all of a sudden, it flies
off into Edith Bunker [American television's equivalent of the Else Garnett
character in our 'Till Death Us Do Part]!" She demonstrates again. "See?
There's a comedic streak to my looks, in a way. A gurning tendency.
"Of course, the concept of ageing gracefully is alien here. The elderly are
invisible, almost literally; as soon as you get wizened, they hide you away
in a home. But there's got to be a better way of fighting that culture than
by cutting and snipping. I mean, you can nip and tuck your face and body all
you like, have stuff sucked out of here and there, but - well, you can't do
anything for your hands and feet! And how's that going to look? Wrinkly old
hands and feet, when everything else is pulled tight?
"Also, it seems that once people start down that road, they get the appetite
to redo and redo. Have surgery once and, I guarantee, you'll find yourself
tempted to have it again. In no time at all, you've become this macabre old
thing." She shudders. Giggles at the horror of it all. No, absolutely. That
route is not for her.
me again:
I hope I look like her when I'm in my late fifties, but the chances are I'll
have lines so deep you could hear an echo, and I'm not even going to talk
about the effects of gravity on other prominent features of female anatomy!
They're already heading south at a pace which is more than a little
disturbing!
Hell
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