British actress Julie Christie

Britain's Julie Christie caused a big sensation in the 1960s in films like Doctor Zhivago and Fahrenheit 451, and she quickly became an icon of the "Swinging London" days.



In the 1970s she had a relationship with Warren Beatty and starred in a few films with him - McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Shampoo, and Heaven Can Wait.



More recently, she has appeared in the Alzheimer's disease drama Away From Her and in Finding Neverland. She remains an ageless symbol of English-language cinema.

TV newswoman Brenda Blackmon

Brenda Blackmon has been a fixture in local broadcast journalism in the greater New York City area for years.



She has been at WWOR-TV (Channel 9) in Secaucus, New Jersey, since 1990 as an anchorwoman and a reporter, having won many Emmy awards for her work. She's one of the most respected broadcast journalists in the New York City media market. She also runs her own communications firm, Brenda Blackmon Communications, Inc., whose site is available here.

This post is an act of support for Ms. Blackmon and her co-anchor, Harry Martin. Their nightly newscast on WWOR-TV had been one hour long and had aired at ten o'clock, but it's been pushed back one hour (to eleven o'clock) and halved to thirty minutes to make room for a talk show that has nothing to do with the news.

Scandinavian model Anna Anderson

Anna Anderson was a highly visible fashion model in the late seventies and early eighties.



She even appeared in a couple of movies, notably in the 1978 thriller Eyes of Laura Mars, about a fashion photographer whose violence-themed pictures may foretell a murder. Anna Anderson played one of the models. She also appeared in Portfolio, a semi-fictional 1983 movie about the modeling trade.

Updated Rules

Here's a brief update, with a minor revision, on my rules for who's eligible to appear on this blog.

All women from all walks of life remain in contention, just as long as they are still alive. Regarding women I know personally, I would like to define that rule to mean that I will not post pictures of women whom I have met in person.

In the interest of full disclosure, I have become friends on Facebook with Rosaura Lezama, whom I featured in September, through our mutual friend Arthur Eisenberg, who photographed her. I have never met her in person, though, so technically she's eligible to appear on this blog.

I have also befriended another woman whom I have featured on this blog - Virginia Mesones, a New Jersey-based actress I'd met before in New York but have since connected with. I had met her in person when I featured her on this blog, but as we were not friends yet when I featured her, this does not violate my rule.

I decided that the original rule of not posting pictures of women I know personally was too strict, so I made exceptions and retroactive provisions to keep everything consistent and fair.

Right, are we done? Splendid! On to more beautiful women!

The Beauty of Retrospect: Supermodel Beverly Johnson . . . Without Makeup!

Beverly Johnson never looked more beautiful than in this picture, taken by fashion and celebrity photographer Francesco Scavullo, in which she doesn't wear any makeup at all.

And, dare I say, she never looked sexier. :-)

I've always appreciated women's natural beauty, and I've come to prefer women who were less makeup or, ideally, none at all. True feminine beauty comes from facial contours, eye color, and skin tone. Lipstick, rouge and mascara can get in the way of all that.

This picture of Beverly Johnson accentuates her best features - her deep, dark eyes, her soft, supple lips, and her glowing complexion. It's an astonishingly breathtaking portrait.

I'd been wanting to post this picture for a long time, but I'd never been able to find it on the Internet. Then two things happened. First, I got a scanner. Then I found the Scavullo book this picture appeared in.

It was worth the wait.

The Beauty Of Retrospect, Birthday Edition: Happy Birthday, Famke Janssen!

Dutch actress Famke Janssen, who has appeared in movies as diverse as the James Bond film GoldenEye and Woody Allen's Celebrity, in addition to the X-Men movies, turns 44 today.



What a coincidence - so do I! :-D

Happy birthday to my lovely astrological twin! :-)

The Latest Numbers

I have now posted pictures of 285 different women - some women, obviously, have been featured more than once.

Having wrapped up my second special series on beautiful women in music, I look to return soon to featuring my usual assortment of actresses, media personalities, models, and even politicians (I have featured Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm and U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington, remember).

Speaking of which, today's Election Day in the United States, and so I'd like to ask anyone who's interested to make the following choice: Who's the most beautiful woman in the world today? Feel free to leave a comment here or, if you're a Facebook friend, on my Facebook profile. :-)