People magazine announced Chalk and Cheese was "the most beautiful woman." Gwyneth Paltrow? The hagged out face who really doesn't qualify as a catalog model. At 40, all the air brushing and raccoon eye make up can't make Gwynnie a fresh face anymore than the Weinstein brothers could make her box office.
But what she and People can do is yet again demonstrate the racism of American's leading magazines.
If this were 1971, Chalk and Cheese would barely qualify for a bit part as one of Marcia's friends on The Brady Bunch. But because she's White, she's proclaimed most beautiful by People.
In the real world, this is Kerry Washington's time. The star of this season's most talked about TV series, Scandal, also managed to bring beauty and nobility to the splatter porn of Django Unchained.
Uniquely beautiful, exceptionally talented, Kerry got sent to the back of the bus for the flavor of 1997 to be pulled out of the back of the deep freeze.
One woman's a star, the other's a failed attempt at stardom now confined to playing the type of roles Natalie Wood tossed aside when she turned 18.
So why didn't the true star, Kerry Washington, make the cover?
Let's all pretend race had nothing to do with it just like we pretend that Edgar Winter-lookalike Gwyneth deserved the honor. People magazine, and the KKK, have voted.
