On a wall-mounted screen, Marilyn Monroe sings a chorus from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" next to a picture of Kristin Scott Thomas pulling off a peroxide wig to reveal the dark hair in a new exhibit on movies and women's hair.


"Brunette/Blonde?", which opened this month at the Paris cinematheque, uses film and television archives, photography and art to retrace how generations of movie makers have used women's hair to seduce and shape their times.


Penelope Cruz stares out from underneath a platinum wig, her sultry Latin looks camouflaged for the camera, for the poster of the show.


"Women's hair is a constant motif for all filmmakers, in all films," said curator Alain Bergala, whether curled and glamorous like Veronica Lake, wild and loose like Brigitte Bardot, or cropped and rebellious like Jean Seberg.


Above all, he said, "the 20th century was the century of blonde imperialism" -- and nowhere more so than on the film sets of Hollywood.


Illustrating the point: a pre-war US archive clip of Lana Turner gives women detailed tips on how to achieve the same hairstyle, with short blonde curls wound cherub-like around her head.


In another, Jane Fonda talks on camera about her early experience of the film industry -- how it judged her too dark to be "commercial", so that for 10 years she was forced to dye her hair and lashes blonde.


A kaleidoscope of "Elle" magazine covers shows Catherine Deneuve through the ages, polished, thick locks at shoulder length in the 1960s to frizzy-haired blonde in the 1980s -- each time a model of femininity for her generation.


But even in the movie world, the image of the blonde flickered back and forth between "pure and impure."


Until the 1930s, the blonde was the demure housewife, and the brunette was cast as a temptress. Then the tables turned -- the blonde taking over as femme fatale, an enduring myth that culminated in the figure of Marilyn Monroe.


"At each period, the viewer knows how to tell the good girl from the bad, even if the codes have changed," said Bergala.


Later, the show moves the viewer away from the stereotype of the eternal rivals on to the 1990s and the cinema of David Lynch and his "idea that there is a blonde and a brunette inside every woman," said Bergala.


In Lynch's "Lost Highway", Patricia Arquette plays both sides of a female figure -- dark and blonde. In "Mulholland Drive" the twin heroines, blonde and dark, are caught in a complex play on identity.


The Paris show also aims for a broader historical sweep, looking at the politics of hair throughout the decades.


From the 19th century Suffragettes or 1920s flappers to Jean Seberg's now-classic crop in the 1960s, short hair symbolised women's liberation, while Black Panther activists adopted the afro as a means of protest.


One gem -- a US propaganda film from World War II -- enjoins women to ditch Veronica Lake-style locks for shorter, practical styles better suited to working on factory machines in the war effort.


On a darker note, the show also highlights how the Nordic cult of blondness was adopted by Nazi Germany as a symbol of racial purity, spreading to Josef's Stalin's Soviet Union which celebrated the ideal of the blonde peasant -- and on to the film studios of the United States.


The Western myth excluded blacks, hispanics and ethnic minorities, but the show makes a point of touching on hair's role in other cultures -- from Japan to the Middle East, Africa or India.


"In Indian cinema, when two characters fall in love they cannot be shown kissing, so they convey emotion by showing the woman's hair lifting in the breeze," said the curator.


Bergala commissioned six filmmakers from around the world to produce short films for the exhibit, including one by Iran's Abbas Kiarostami which closes the visit.


In the film, four-year-old Rebecca stares straight into the camera, all smiles with her chubby pink cheeks, bright green eyes and long chestnut plait.


But when told her lovely locks might have to be snipped off for the purpose of the plot, she falters, chin wavering and little face dropping as she understands the decision facing her.


It takes a few moments but Rebecca's choice is clear: Forget making me a movie star -- I'm keeping my hair.

Kim Kardashian celebrate her 30th birthday




Kim Kardashian took Tao in Las Vegas on Friday to celebrate her 30th birthday (which isn't until Oct. 21) with her sisters.


Then on Saturday the party moved back to the Big Apple, where Kim toasted her birthday with Ciara, Adrien Grenier and more at Tao NYC's 10-year anniversary bash.


So what does she think of her new city and the men there?


"I love New York," she told me Friday night. "It's so fashion-forward. And I love living with Mason. I get to wake up to him every day."


And her adorable nephew is the only boy she's waking up to right now.


"Unfortunately, it really is kind of tough dating when you live your life on a reality show, so you gotta be careful," she explained. "Do the guys really want to meet you to be on the show—or the ones that you really like don't wanna be on the show. So right now my love life is kind of nonexistent. But I'm 30 and it's my birthday and I'm not going to think about that!"


And if you thought the birthday celebrations were over after back-to-back blowout parties in two different cities, think again.


Although Scott Disick was MIA from both bashes, Kourtney said he's organizing yet another soiree for Kim on her actual birthday.


"He's planning Kim's New York birthday bash," Kim's sister told me. "Kim doesn't just have one party."




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Kate Moss secretly wed her rock guitarist boyfriend Jamie Hince in a ceremony in Sicily in August, according to reports in Britain on Friday.

Moss, 36, and Hince, 40, exchanged vows before a handful of friends and family in a ceremony on the Mediterranean island, the Daily Mirror tabloid reported.

The model walked up the aisle barefoot and wore a see-through white gown for the ceremony in a small church.

Her daughter Lila Grace, from a previous relationship with magazine editor Jefferson Hack, was one of three ring bearers at the wedding.

Moss met Hince, guitarist with The Kills, three years ago.

The Daily Mirror reported that the wedding plans had been kept secret because the couple wanted to avoid media coverage.

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