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Ladies Who Grunt

June 22, 2011

No, this isn’t a post about women who make loud noises during sex. It’s about tennis. Apparently, the officials at Wimbledon are displeased by the ladies who make loud noises during play. The Daily Beast had a countdown today of the worst offenders. Personally, I think Venus Williams should be on the list. She doesn’t grunt; she screams.

Back in the day it was Monica Seles who famously annoyed Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf with her grunts.

When you hear her, however, you realize how much worse the current players are.

I wish they’d shut up and just hit the ball, I really do. It’s annoying.

 

Filed Under: Mainly Jane, Sports Tagged With: grunting, Martina Navratilova, Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, tennis, Venus Williams, Wimbledon

Court Attire

February 10, 2011

No, I’m not talking about Venus Williams’ most recent fashion statement at the Australian Open – the one she said was inspired by “Alice in Wonderland.”

(courtesy: Huffington Post)

I’m talking about Lindsay Lohan’s body-hugging white number – the one she wore today to her latest gig in a courtroom.

(courtesy: Flvnet A)

She said she wore white to express her “innocence.” Nobody was buying it. The media has been all over the inappropriateness of her wardrobe selection. Apparently, people expected her to dress for church.

I’m not about to get into what celebrities should wear to their trials or arraignments or whatever; when Michael Jackson was on trial here in Santa Barbara County he wore pajamas, remember?

(courtesy: womendonthavefriends.com)

Hard to top that. What’s amazing to me is the absolute craze Lohan’s dress has started. Women have been ordering it in record numbers and sales have gone through the roof in the past 24 hours alone.

It’s a cute dress. Fine. But are women really desperate enough to make Lindsay Lohan their fashion role model as she tries to wriggle out of yet another date with prison?

I can’t help thinking about the women in Egypt, because I’ve been glued to CNN for hours watching the demonstrators and wondering what tomorrow will bring for them. What the women in that country wouldn’t give for the opportunity to wear a cute little white dress if they felt like it. On them, it might actually stand for something.

Filed Under: Fashion, Mainly Jane, News stories Tagged With: Egypt, Lindsay Lohan, Michael Jackson, Venus Williams, white dress

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Jane Heller is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Her fourteen breezy, witty novels of romantic comedy and suspense are now entertaining millions of readers around the world, along with her two books of nonfiction.

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