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Eggs, legs and eating beauty
Glamour magazine's annual awards ceremony was an odd-couple omelet; Sharon Stone's close shaves with dairy; Janeane Garofalo cops feels; Christina Ricci's Love Hewitt jones. Plus: Get your mouth off my dress!

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By Amy Reiter

Nov. 20, 1999 | What a week it was! It began with an awards show where models' eggs got the conversation rolling, peaked with Janeane Garofalo's sex talk and then melted into a sticky, chocolate flavored puddle shaped like a dress. Wait! That is a dress!

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Monday: "Women of the year: Talking on eggs"

Camera-ready odd couples were everywhere at Glamour magazine's Women of the Year awards Thursday night.

There was Elizabeth Dole, who received a lifetime achievement award, posing with Jewel. (Flash!) There were pols Donna Shalala and Barbara Boxer chatting it up with members of the soccer team as alpha advisor Naomi Wolf, plus-size model Emme and civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, among other current and past honorees, circulated in the background. (Flash ... flash-flash!) … And that was just at the pre-show press conference.

Katie Couric, clad in a sleeveless black leather sheath and high black boots ("Am I a glamour do or what?" she crowed), kicked off the festivities by reciting the highlights of the year that was: "Monica moved on, and so did we," she said. "Hillary hit the campaign trail." But when she got to Martha Stewart's highly successful IPO, she got a little personal: "I thought we bonded over all that candle-dipping," she quipped. "But she didn't call. She didn't write. So there goes my piece of that IPO."

Read the entire Nothing Personal Column for Monday, Nov. 15.

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Tuesday: "Shave me"

And you thought all that crossing and uncrossing was bad.




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In the December Esquire, Sharon Stone brings basic instincts to a whole new level. The actress weighs in on one thing she thinks a guy oughta do before he dies: shave a woman's legs.

"You've got to ask yourself why," she proclaims. "Why do I want to shave a woman's legs? Why do I want to know how? Why haven't I fantasized about this before? Do other guys fantasize about this?"

Accessories to your crime of passion? Stone recommends whipped cream, fruit, chocolates and a bit of bubbly. "Don't be afraid to taste the fruits of your labor," she counsels.

Read the entire Nothing Personal Column for Tuesday, Nov. 16.

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Wednesday: "Celibacy bites"

This week's raging hormones award goes to ... Janeane Garofalo.

The actress/comedian confesses to Bust magazine that she's gotta have it ... all the time. "I am so much more interested in having sex now than I ever was," she says. "I'm always initiating sex. It's embarrassing."

Read the entire Nothing Personal Column for Wednesday, Nov. 17.

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Thursday: "Buffalo 36-D"

In an upcoming Rolling Stone interview, Christina Ricci admits that in high school, she was "really flat-chested, and I was considered a prude."

She longed to be like the busty Jennifer Love Hewitt. "I'm obsessed with that girl!" she says. "But [she and Sarah Michelle Gellar are] probably having less fun than me, because they have to be so happy and such good role models."

Still, being a sexy teenage role model has its drawbacks: "It makes me uncomfortable -- the idea of little boys in their parents' bathrooms, jacking off to me. Yuck."

Read the entire Nothing Personal Column for Thursday, Nov. 18.

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Friday: "Gown gobbling in Gotham"

At the upcoming Chocolate Show in New York (Nov. 26-29), models will meander down the catwalk in cocoa-flavored finery such as an 8-foot-wide Olivier Lapidus-designed Milka chocolate ball gown; a Jean-Louis Sherrer bustier with dark chocolate rings, accessorized with chocolate bag, jewels and hand warmer; a Courrèges "surprise chocolate cake dress"; and a futuristic dress with a halo of chocolate squares by Paco Rabanne.

Yes, the fancy frocks would melt right on the models if they wore them too long, confirms show spokeswoman Stephanie Teuwen. And yes, they're all edible.

"Last year," Teuwen confides, "we had a dress made out of chocolate-covered orange peel that the designer kept having to redo because people kept eating it."

Read the entire Nothing Personal Column for Friday, Nov. 19.
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