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Flat White

Hello yellowbrick road: Hollywood abandons fading female stars

1 January 2022

12:00 PM

1 January 2022

12:00 PM

I am surprised that some people still dispute the idea that sex sells. We know it sells television series and cars, but there are so many other products that have become successes in the marketplace just by the addition of sexual frisson. Inevitably, that frisson is generated in the shape of a good-looking young woman who appears to be of an age when she is fertile and single.

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