There’s trouble for newly crowned Miss World Fiji: first she gets flack for her age (she’s sixteen years old), and now she’s being slammed for her racial background. Torika Watters, the contest winner of mixed European and Fijian heritage, has drawn ire from nativists who say she’s not Fijian enough. Nasty comments left on the Facebook site (since deleted) also included attacks on her hair, which critics say should be worn in the naturally fuzzy “buiniga” style. Perhaps ironically, …
Makeovers in the movies are so often about brightening up the place: prettifying a nerdy girl, replacing a boring wardrobe – even spicing up a lifeless movie plot.
But the makeover takes a darker, more sinister turn in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Here, the makeover is weaponized – looks are fuel for the war between the sexes, psychosexual redemption, and even murder.
The bulk of the movie shows us San Francisco detective John “Scotty” Ferguson’s attempt to decipher
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San Jose, California: Former beauty queen Saman Hasnain (she was Mrs. Pakistan World in 2008), has been charged with 18 felony counts of conspiracy to commit grand theft. With her husband, she allegedly placed fliers and ads in ethnic grocers promising cheaper rates for home mortgages. As many as 80-100 people signed up for lower rate mortgages, placing deposits in an escrow account. When the loans failed to materialize, the victims found that the fine print on their contracts allowed …
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