A poll by the British magazine Radio Times showed just how different men and women are. Asked to pick the greatest female film roles of all time, men ranked Ursula Andress in her white bikini in “Dr. No” as #1, followed by Sigourney Weaver in her underwear in “Aliens” and Carrie Fisher in the gold bikini in “Star Wars.” For their #1, British women picked Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” followed by Julie Andrews in “The Sound of Music,” and at #3, Julie Andrews again in “Mary Poppins”…
When the same men were asked for the greatest female strictly dramatic roles of all time, the men ranked Ursula Andress in her white bikini in “Dr. No” as #1, followed by Sigourney Weaver in her underwear in “Aliens” and Carrie Fisher in the gold bikini in “Star Wars.”
The only Julie Andrews role the men could remember, was the movie, “S.O.B.” where she took her top off.
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London’s Sun tabloid reports that an online marketing firm calculated that the average woman spends two years and ten months of her life shopping. That’s nearly 25,185 hours over 63 years, or just under 400 hours a year. In the average year, women spend about 95 hours shopping for food, 17-1/2 hours shopping for toiletries like deodorant and razors, nearly 101 hours shopping for clothes, 29-1/2 hours shopping for fashion accessories and 40-1/2 hours shopping for shoes. This doesn’t include the 51 times a year that they window shop and don’t buy anything…
JoAnne Purtan, of Channel 7’s “Don’t Waste Your Money” says she doesn’t believe any of this. Always the consummate professional, she says, “It’s just a bunch of crap.”
Some say that men shop just as much as women. But it’s probably that Elton John and Boy George are throwing off the average.