Attention: the comma in the title of my column is very important.
I don’t want you to think I’m saying, “Long live the old crisses!”. Though…
By using Louise Latraverse’s famous phrase “L’amour, crisse!”, I want to pay tribute to all the women who have exceeded the DOP (official expiry date) which has been arbitrarily set at 50 years, and who continue to work in the public eye.
My only wish: that there are more!
UNWORTHY OLD LADY
Yesterday, Louise Latraverse, actress, host, author and columnist, announced that she would present across Quebec this fall an autobiographical show entitled Love, criss.
Why this title? You remember that at Live from the universe, France Beaudoin had asked her to “name something that COVID-19 will not overcome”, and Louise had replied: “Love crisse.” The phrase had even been reproduced on a sweater.
In the press release to announce the shows, we are told: “Louise Latraverse is lively, intelligent, funny, spontaneous and old…”
It’s true. She is 82 years old. But admit that it is extremely rare in 2023 that we use (and claim) the “word that begins with a v”.
LL is bubbly, relevant, sassy, caustic and crunchy. And she has the most beautiful white head in show business, tied with another Louise (Portal). Every time I run into Louise Portal at a show premiere, she talks to me about one project or another, a shoot with a young director or a book she has in the works.
I would take tons of these two Louise there!
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THE LISA EFFECT
It’s because I like white heads that I jumped when I read an interview with Mélanie Maynard in The Press. Melanie is (only) 51 years old. Here is what she said: “It is sure that with Sweety salty, I expect to get a lot of feedback that a man would never get. On my look, my makeup… And for sure I will continue to put my $120 a month in hair dye. Because people are not ready to see a woman with gray hair or white hair on screen”.
I thought a lot about this remark by Mélanie because I too, like dozens of women who work in front of the eye of a camera, am getting that famous $120 a month to fight the @#$#$%? $#$%?%$#$% regrowth.
That’s still a good $1440 a year that my male colleagues don’t have to pay, $1440 a year that I don’t put into my RRSPs or government savings bonds.
But I wonder: are Melanie, me and the others putting this pressure on ourselves or is it society? Or both?
From what age is the TV world ready to accept Louise’s white hair?
LOOK IN THE MIRROR
Recently, on social media, a lady blamed me for changing my hair color, when I went from chestnut to dark brown. “It’s getting old on you!” she threw at me.
As usual, it’s always the women who are the hardest on women!
What does this surly lady need? Of love, criss!