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Nicole Kidman

Your classically beautiful face. Saw her in a few things..."Flirting" and the horror one with the boat. I loathed "Moulin Rouge" but she was fantastic. She transformed "The Others" from something cliched into something touching.

Louise Brooks

I saw her in a couple of old Pabst movies...the "fallen girl" whom you somehow still admired. Apparently she made 24 movies! You don't hear about her, she fell out of favor with Hollywood...but there is always a Louise Brooks revival at arty movie houses now and again.

Debbie Harry

Wow...*the* face of the late 1970's New York punk scene. I don't think I appreciated how glam she was until much later...I just loved the idea of fronting your own band.

Sinead O'Connor

No stranger to controversy...yet I don't remember her for tearing up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live, the *satirical* show, for which she appears to have been condemned to obscurity. I remember her for the first time I saw her, in her "Troy" video extremely late at night. The most perfectly gorgeous girl painted in gold, with a shaved head, singing a song that went from anger to love to fury to softness, sometimes within the same line of song!

Yoko Ono

Initially I was looking for a more glamorous photo than this, but I like it... An intellectual, outspoken female can get a larger-than-life image, people's jealousy can exaggerate even the physical size of a person. Here you can see her real size, so little. Plus it looks like one of those really old photos.

I can't claim some kind of highbrow knowledge of Ono, but I think she could sit down and write endless books of wisdom, wit and a view of art that's as good as math.

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