For the next month or so, I'm going to try to post about holiday gift ideas. You know you have to get started on that, right? Anyway, this is not exactly about a beauty product, but it is about something beautiful: the movie Hats Off, a documentary about the life of 94-year-old Mimi Weddell. She was an actress, a model, a hat-lover, a New Yorker, and she was fabulous. Ms. Weddell died in September. But the important thing to remember is how she lived. Her motto was "Rise above it," and it looks like she certainly did: thriving though abandoned by her parents at a young age, building a career when widowed in middle age with two children and no income, creating a home for those adult kids who came back to live (with their own kids) in her tiny Manhattan apartment. Her jobs included doing everything from bad vampire movies to playing Stanford Blatch's Chanel-clad grandma on Sex in the City to modeling for Juicy Couture. This dvd would make a great present for anybody on your list who is Mimi-level fabulous. Or who aspires to be.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Hats Off
For the next month or so, I'm going to try to post about holiday gift ideas. You know you have to get started on that, right? Anyway, this is not exactly about a beauty product, but it is about something beautiful: the movie Hats Off, a documentary about the life of 94-year-old Mimi Weddell. She was an actress, a model, a hat-lover, a New Yorker, and she was fabulous. Ms. Weddell died in September. But the important thing to remember is how she lived. Her motto was "Rise above it," and it looks like she certainly did: thriving though abandoned by her parents at a young age, building a career when widowed in middle age with two children and no income, creating a home for those adult kids who came back to live (with their own kids) in her tiny Manhattan apartment. Her jobs included doing everything from bad vampire movies to playing Stanford Blatch's Chanel-clad grandma on Sex in the City to modeling for Juicy Couture. This dvd would make a great present for anybody on your list who is Mimi-level fabulous. Or who aspires to be.
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thanks for the tip! I hadn't heard of her or the movie.
Nah I don't find her fabulous, I found her pathetically (not in a snarky way! I really do feel sorry for her) materialistic.
Ever since I heard of her. Perfect example of someone who would spend anything on herself, but nothing on others.
Fabulous people have compassion. They can be glam too, like Audrey Hepburn, but they're not selfish.
Here's a Xmas suggestion - 2008 book by Poppy King, Lessons of a Lipstick Queen. Excellent book on developing ideas using intuition and common sense! Not to mention appropriate for your blog!
Husha, I thought she was lovely! Kind of a nutcase, but lovely! Maybe it's just an age thing (I am an old bat) but if you can't bop around the city making your dreams come true when you're 90, when can you do it? I didn't think she was selfish at all--she took in her adult kids and their kids, which could not have been easy.
Rhymes...not true she was generous and took care of her children most of her life. In her 60's she decided to pursue her dreams and take care of her self but did not turn her back on friends or family and was an extremely compassionate person.
Actually one of my favorite scenes in the film is where she's lying in her little bed, talking to her granddaughter about the Cinderella play the little girl had just seen. You can see how engaged she was, and how much she loved her family.
Hm sounds like I'm wrong..bad first impression from an article I read once..
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Just an idea/request for a present post: this year I would like to get my mother (who would never buy better than generic) a really great anti-age/wrinkle/moisturizer/creme. Maybe even a little set. I'm in my 20's so haven't yet done enough research in this area to know much about what is worth spending some extra $ on. Thanks for any ideas!
I just posted about some great SELF-gift ideas... must-have items for Christmas-- You might be interested!
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