I'm one of those women who has never understood the attraction to "bad boys." Still don't. Yet here it is, personified officially in Salon. Please quit giving fodder to those who say women want to be treated like crap.

Larry King asked a perfectly appropriate question that would not normally violate any confidentiality terms. He wasn't going to let her easily squirm out of it using a phony excuse. Nothing wrong with that approach at all. And her fussing at him as though he's a misbehaving 5-year old was arrogant and disrespectful. Normal people just say "I don't want to say" or something, but she had to turn him into a BAAAAD PERSON for, actually, doing his job and asking good questions. And that's not to mention the bizarreness of sitting there still going on about it.

Don't know how long this bullshit will serve her...we'll see.

From what I read, instead of having all that "creative input", Hef rejected the shoot she called the shots on and told her to do something else.

...or a large measure of it, if the press would leave her alone. If whoever is calling her to get comments would just fucking stop, her harrassment would stop. It seems pretty silly to blame those who want to pursue justice when they're (from what I can tell) not causing this and it's a false assumption to believe that if the matter is dropped, that will mean that her harrassment will stop.

Put the blame where it belongs.

"goeswithness, nobody is saying you're not allowed to like bland, insipid, mom-rock just don't expect any cultural relevancy points for it. It would appear that you're maybe of an age and demographic that doesn't quite have a proper conception of the underground/mainstream dichotomy as it exists today."

Thanks for prooving my point, babe. You know absolutely nothing about me except that I'm 46 and I'm not a snob against the names mentioned here. From that you feel free to make all sorts of assumptions about what I have been exposed to and what I like and don't like. That's a very stupid move, but it fits exactly what I've been saying. I don't play by your rules. Your rules shut out beauty in favor of your version of "cultural relevancy." You'd best be growing up a little now.

So few letters (and the original author didn't even bother) discuss the merits of the music, it's ridiculous. This is all about whether you should like certain music or not, based on what symbols you connect to the particular artists, and folks, that is SOOO eigth grade. I'm talking about both those who slam these folks as being too hippie (oh, the horrors...) as well as those who think the only legit music is that which comes from the "underground." Why can't you let go of your "oughts," your "shoulds," your ideas of "cool"(which is reliable only in its shifting meaning).

It's one thing for middle school and high school kids to get an identity from music, but rather pathetic for adults still to be doing so.

I'm getting towards my late 40s. I would have loved to see a great deal of these ladies back in the day. I might show up at the new one. But one thing is for sure: I have long since got past letting anyone tell me what music I should like.

I enjoyed the windup much better than the pitch, but it was good fun, if that's what you're after. The veteran actors are great to watch.

But Stephanie - detail work! He's not texting in his coffin. He's playing video games! Rather important since the whole reason he is in the coffin is because everyone he knows needs to be convinced he's dead! Who's he going to text?

Everybody I know wishes more people would be interested, including strangers. Most like to make contacts with new people; one has a site (with blog) where he sells art. If this woman doesn't want those things, it makes her a bit unusual in my experience.

But anyway, stalkers threaten, they impoach, they go where they are not wanted and try to impose themselves and insist on a relationship not desired by the other.

Laurel1062 is right - I remember the older dolls which were showed a great deal of ethnic variety.

And for those who forget, Barbie's body was remodelled years ago. She is much more flat chested and her butt is bigger and more naturally shaped - to the point where new Barbie doesn't fit in old Barbie's clothes.

I don't mind people arguing with the concept and maybe they're right, but it's good to know what you're arguing against.

Not true. "Mrs." is the abbreviation for "Mistress." "Missus" isn't a real word. In fact, "Miss," "Mrs." and "Ms." ALL are short for "Mistress," which does not denote marital status. All three were used two or three hundred years ago, but as the meanings became more specific, "Ms." was dropped and later revived. So no, it isn't made up, any more than any other word (or rather, abbreviation) is.

Maybe we should just all have people call us "Mistress!"