Toward the end of the week, I feel sick of it all. And the news has turned: Anna Nicole Smith has died, she of the TrimSpa ad reading simply BE ENVIED. I go home to watch a TiVo’d Ugly Betty. Rebecca Romijn is strutting and bragging, having a fantastic time, as the transsexual brother turned sister of the editor-in-chief of Mode. Here was the cocky strut I had imagined I would find on the runways. And I remembered back in the eighties, when I thought the supermodels were bad role models. Who knew I could ever miss them this much?

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