Fluffy Spies

I thought I'd end this week with fluff, since uber-spies should know trivial things. I know some uber-authors and uber-spies eschew reading RAGS as if they are even lower than the term BODICE RIPPERS ;-) but they have the most interesting gossip. LOL.

And yeah, nobody cares about Aniston-Pitt-Jolie, nope, not romance authors!

I don't like reading dirty laundry being dished, per se, but...relationship dynamics fascinate me. For example, it hadn't dawned on me till I recently saw three pictures side-by-side that Tom Cruise's ex-es and his current fiance are taller than him. Conclusion for a spy: a man who likes tall women because ??? Heh, you fill in the blanks.

Yesterday, I found a new sex position in some magazine that's called the 77. What's fascinating was that the magazine is prominently among the teen and fashion magazines, with the usual voluptuous perfect model flashing her perfect white teeth and tan. You would never realize the main read of that magazine was mostly about PLEASING the man with these sexual techniques. For years I'd thought it was mostly fashion and make-up. Conclusion for romance author: good research material!

Did you know that the dude playing the protagonist in Night Stalker is Charlize Theron's boyfriend? I never knew who CT was till she played the murderess from Daytona Beach in her Oscar winning role, but afterwards, when I saw her all dolled-up for the awards, I was amazed what makeup and false bad teeth could do to drop-dead gorgeous women. Conclusion for spy: T. is tall and blonde too, isn't she? ;-) As for that Night Stalker dude, his name is Stuart Townsend and he isn't quite as interesting to look at as his name, but the TV show is growing on me. Maybe they won't cancel it this season after all.

I want to say this: SOMEONE please help that kid...Nicole Richie. I just saw her in a bikini. She's obviously in trouble. It's scary how the magazine is just chirpily talking about how thin she's become and not being horrified about it.

I can hear you now...you're telling me that you don't care for such stupid trivial. Back to the original fluff of the day: Aniston-Pitt-Jolie. Who cares, right? But I like to look at each of these people and see characters. How do you write a classic "wronged" woman without looking around you? With friends and neighbors, you tend to just see one side of the story--the bad wife or husband--but in a "rag," you have pictures of both sides, speculation, and events "after the fact." It helps the writer in me understand.

My spies are people too. They have to deal with personal relationships and these relationships aren't going to be perfect. If, for example, I'm ever going to write about T and Alex, I have to figure out what it means to each of them, dealing with the ghost of his wife. It isn't going to be easy. If, for example, I'm ever going to write about Jed, I have to see how his woman is going to deal with all those women in his past! And how's he going to deal with his job in the future? After all, in romance, he can't...umm...keep seducing sexy/dangerous/bad women when he has a woman of his own!

Ya see? They aren't just RAGS. Oh, okay, I'm just a shallow, nosey-parker who enjoys looking at pictures of celebrity caught without their makeup. LOL.

This weekend, I'll expound on the political and weapons magazines, like Foreign Affairs and Guns & Ammo, that I read up to balance out my shallowness. Ahem.

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