I grew up with classical art and really talented and good looking European actors and actresses. I am 165 cm tall, the height of Venus in Le Louvre, and, before the supermodel heights became coveted, my height was considered ideal for a woman - not too short, not too tall. I am not buff, but neither is the woman in Le Dejeuner on the grass, and who is sexier - the nude on the grass or the buff but stupid looking Brooke Shields? You get the point. All that stuff about women who become intimidated by Hollywood actresses is totally cryptic to me, because, in my opinion, only a small handful of current Hollywood actresses are sexy. Let me count - Scarlett Johansson, whose last name I probably misspelled, Natalie Portman, Salma Hayek has good features but is constantly overdoing drama. Gwyneth Paltrow is really glamorous and confident, although I would not call her sexy. Megan Fox has proportionate enough facial features, but looks horrible because she does not know how to smile, how to look enigmatic and how to look approachable and how to vacillate between the two. Courtney Cox has a dead mask in place of a face. All of this is extremely depressing per se (that the esthetic taste over the past 50 years in America has deteriorated from drop dead gorgeous Monroe to passingly pretty Kardashian) and even more depressing is that apparently women want to look like Brooke Shields - I just found a 2007 issue of the Fitness magazine, which I no longer subscribe to, with Brooke Shields on the cover, smiling in such a way that I would have suggested her for a Tide detergent commercial. The cover read - "how does Brooke Shields stay sexy without a trainer". I could not believe it, because she just does not seem sexy to me with or without a trainer, because her face is so stupid one wants to cry. So basically women's magazines sell the idea that if women eat and exercise a certain way, they will be sexy. Did Monroe and Sophia Loren exercise much in the days of their youth?