Word: veronica
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...Making Faces, Aucoin devotes several pages of his new book to portraying his celebrated friends as Hollywood icons from the past: Winona Ryder as Elizabeth Taylor, Calista Flockhart as Audrey Hepburn and Martha Stewart as Veronica Lake. Yet the rest of the book shows Aucoin's makeup wizardry on women of all ages, ethnicities and body types (including a transgender friend). The goal, he insists, is to "empower women through showing them possibilities, not making judgments...
...those vocals on the top! Ronnie of the Ronettes, of course - later Veronica when Phil was pushing her as a solo artist, and later still, Ronnie Spector when she ended her career by marrying him. (According to Ronnie's book, "Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, or My Life As a Fabulous Ronette," she lived as a prisoner in Phil's L.A. mansion, finally escaping in bare feet with only the clothes on her back...
...Finally there are two masterpieces, songs as good as "Be My Baby" or "River Deep Mountain High." The first is a Veronica number called "Why Don't They Let Us Fall In Love." Phil opens with a seismic riff - a sax line of tectonic dimension, especially on crankin? speakers - but the song's just starting, and the second time through he adds the backup vocals: "Bop bop bop, bop bop ba-dah-dah dah-dah..." I'm sitting on that couch in the dark, my next-door neighbor is pounding on the wall...
...Veronica Reed Ryback, director of the Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center Rape Crisis Intervention Program, says she is unsure whether centralized help would be more effective than the individual groups, like Response, that already exist...
...Nutty II was in production, Baker was also working on Grinch, racing his golf cart between sets on the Universal lot. Finally, he was ready to lavish time on his family. "I waited until I was older to have children," says Baker, who has two girls (Rebecca, 7, and Veronica, 11) with wife Silvia, a former movie hairstylist. "My work was basically my life for so long, I wanted to get to a certain place in my career before I made the commitment...