The movie Hairspray is set to debut in theatres today. After the last few years in Hollywood have been spent idolizing the skinny girls, it’s now time to pay homage to the larger, healthier women. The big screen musical includes lyrics that celebrate bigger women rather than putting them down. It’s a really nice change. Film makers are hoping that the movie will open the minds of both movie goers and Hollywood to the fact that people of larger proportions deserve their close up as surely as any skinny girl does. Talent cannot be defined by physical weight. It’s unfair to shut out wonderfully talented people because of something as meaningless as weight. Classic beauties Marilyn Monroe and Mae West were curvier and more ample than the average stars of today. It would be nice to recapture that healthy beauty.

Singer Gwen Stefani is suing a US retail apparel chain alleging that’s its designers have copied her heart trademark from her Harajuku and L.A.M.B. clothing lines and used them in their outfits. She said Forever 21 bosses were engaged in “acts of trademark infringement”. Stefani is seeking to stop the company from showcasing clothes based on her own designs. Trade mark infringement is a law offense in any country and the bosses could well have to cough up huge sums if they are found guilty. I didn’t that Gwen was a apparel designer as well as being a successful singer. Some people are so creative but do not find success in a whole life time, but she is fortunate that she has found success in her endeavors and accomplished such heights. Some fight for hearts and lost hearts, Gwen will be fighting for the rights of a ‘heart trademark’.