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STARBUZZ: The weight race
Glamour seems to be seeping into every walk of life. Take, for example, a pharmaceutical company coming up with medicine that will no doubt be a hit with most people, glamour or no glamour. All you need are the magic words ‘how to lose weight!’ At a seminar arranged by the company, there was Rubab, the pencil-thin model trying to emphasize the fact that eating a lot had absolutely no effect on her weight, even though she didn’t exercise. Which was baffling for the audience who had collected to hear about obesity and how to stop eating. This fact made quite a few people turn green with envy.
Angie Marshall, the beautician, who was assisting the somewhat nervous Rubab with encouraging words endorsed the point that most people who came to her salon wanted a quick formula to become thin, rather than exercise and eat a few mouthfuls less. —K.H.
Who’s sari now?
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Hindu fundamentalists cried blasphemy when film-makers Ismail Merchant and James Ivory recently said long-legged Tina Turner would play Indian deity Shakti in The Goddess. But South Asian women think she’s perfect for the role. A women’s group, Sakhi, says that Turner, who shook off the beatings of her ex-husband Ike, has already shown her healing power to thousands of victims of violence. Which is why she’ll be honoured at the organization’s fund-raiser next fall. “There is no one with Tina’s charisma,” Merchant tells us. “She has an energy from the gods.”—Rush and Molloy
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