The edges unravel first.
01/27/06 10:14 PM
I had a single minded, heart-aching crush on Amanda Pays in her Max
Headroom days. I spent much of a summer at art
school holed up in the library scouring fashion
magazines for pictures of her which I would tear
out and defile myself with animal aggression to
later. I could not help myself, she drove me to
absolute distraction by merely being alive. I
only tell you this because I feel that Amanda
Pays stands up very well to this day as a high
quality object of hopeless teenage fanboy
desire- beautiful and brainy, a female in
control of any situation, a woman who demanded
attention from her presence alone. Not at all
like, say, Heather Thomas circa "The
Fall Guy", for whom I rubbed myself raw for just
because she had great cans. No way- Amanda was
the whole package, the voice, the eyes, the
accent, that thing that hot British girls do
when they want to laugh at something but instead
smile demurely as if to say, "I'll laugh at your
jokes, but first you've got to earn it, boy." I
suppose it cheapens this tribute to also mention
that she had amazing,
teenage-boy's-life-changing knockers. Wow. Wow.
Amanda Pays is now 46, has been married to Corbin Bernsen since 1988, and has four kids. I'm glad for her.
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