It’s Not Polite to Point, But…
It’s Not Polite to Point, But… by Roxanne McDonald
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It should be okay to point at the mother-daughter team who points out people and their, ahem, flaws, all the time. |
When I was a teen still living at home, the television was for us one of the four ways our family connected. That is, we came together through work on our small subsistence farm, over meals, for card and board games, and for TV.
When there was no sit-com, Wild World of Sports event, or variety show on, we got a rare chance to hear a stand-up comic. One of those was Joan Rivers, whom my mother loved for all her self-effacing Jewish beauty jokes.
Joan Rivers still does stand-up, though it is less often these 30-some years later and though it is less about her lack of God-given beauty than about her self-purchased lifted and laminated looks. She also takes her humor to another venue, the pre-Oscars red carpet, where she or she and her daughter Melissa do a finger-pointing, looky loo, quasi interview, semi-comic schtick…whereby Joan gets to take a break from poking fun at herself and gets to dish on the appearances of fellow celebrities.
Yes, there’s an irony to this, which I am sure is not lost on the wise-cracking Rivers, who next to almost everyone save maybe Billy Bob Thornton is not all that photo-friendly.
But this year, I noticed in the promos for the Academy Awards and in the actual pre-Awards show time that the typical victim of too much plastic surgery and her typically pale and somewhat horsey-faced daughter actually looked pretty good! Melissa, especially, has this tan thing going on that deflects from her exaggerated features and helps her blend in a bit better with the beautiful.
But then, who am I to point? My mother would be mortified.
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