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For most people, stiletto heels probably mean just the high heel on a shoe, like any other heel out there. But believe it or not, there are differences in the kind of heels you see on the shoes.

Stiletto heels are high and have very narrow heels, making it look as though a sharp object like a spike or dagger is protruding from the shoe. The design of stiletto heels was originally meant to make legs appear longer.

While stiletto heels vary in length anywhere from half an inch to six inches or so, they are all thought of as the same, simply as stiletto heels. These heels are now seen on many dancers and other women who use them to make them look more exotic or sexy.

There are many various and different varieties of styles when it comes to stiletto heels as well. Some stilettos may look business professional while others are meant to look provocative in nature. There is actually a pair of stiletto heels that is appropriate for any occasion. Many women have several pairs of them in their wardrobe.

Stiletto heels were invented in Italy and became very popular in the 1950s. And popularity did not stem only from women, as men wore stiletto heels just as often. At first, the heel was looked at as another way to make someone look taller while adding certain flair to their style. It was very common for men of social stature to wear this type of shoe with their formal outfits.

As time went on, stiletto heels became known more for their erotic nature than for their ability to create an effect of tallness for someone. As a matter of fact, stiletto heels are known as a fetish to some in both a sexual and personal nature. As these heels may be a part of bedroom life for many couples, they can mean a source of power to a woman that wears them.

One can find an abundance of stiletto heels in stores today, and as mentioned before they come in all different kinds of shapes and sizes - and colors. It will all depend on what the use of them will be as to which style would be best suited. However there isn’t one particular length or style of stiletto shoes that could not be used for just about any reason you can think of.

The price range for these shoes can get quite expensive, especially for the higher ones but they aren’t shoes that you wear on a daily basis so they are more than likely going to stay preserved for a few years, making every penny you spent on them worth it.

Do I hear true that Rocky Balboa is returning just in time for Christmas? The Italian Stallion rides again? That’s great news! I just can’t get enough of the feel-good struggles that Rocky Balboa has gone through - in and out of the Boxing ring.

It’s been a great run, but few remember that the original Rocky won the 1976 Academy Award for Best Picture and earned Sylvester Stallone a nomination for Best Actor. The American Film Institute placed Rocky at number 78 of its "100 Greatest Movies of All Time" list, and #4 at AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Cheers. Not too shabby!

The Academy Awards next year will have their Hollywood insiders, and movie critics explain why Rocky Balboa is so beloved to movie audiences throughout the world, yet they will probably be voting for some little anti-American documentary. The point they miss is that Rocky is all about the wonderful opportunities in America, and that’s actually what makes the movie audiences coming back for more.

In many ways, Rocky Balboa is every man, woman or child who has ever risen up in the face of adversity, to beat the odds. Rocky’s big speech in the first Rocky movie said it all…

"It really don’t matter if I lose this fight. It really don’t matter if this guy opens my head either, ’cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody’s ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I’m still standin’, I’m gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren’t just another bum from the neighborhood."

At the end of the first fight, Rocky proved himself as a boxer and a man to all those who had doubted him before, including both his trainer, Mickey, the crowd, and most of all himself. True to his word about what his goal for the fight was, he shows no concern at all for the judges’ final decision. As reporters try to interview Rocky, he seeks only to find and hold Adrian, his girlfriend and soon-to-be wife. Adrian finally fights her way through the crowd, into the ring and, as Apollo Creed is being announced the winner by split decision, Rocky takes her in his arms as the two exchange, "I love you’s." No wonder Rocky Balboa has appealed to women, as well as men, for these many years.

Rocky became the role model for millions in that first movie, having demonstrated that one seemingly insignificant man can stand in the face of overwhelming odds, and in doing so, show himself to be a true champion. Pure Hollywood - I love that Rocky Balboa!!

Rocky Balboa has been a retired boxer for many years now, and the buzz on the next movie is that Rocky is lonely and restless in Philadelphia. The former heavyweight champion is approached to fight a match with the reigning heavyweight champion of boxing - Mason ‘The Line’ Dixon. Soon Rocky’s comeback ignites a drive-by media firestorm. Theme sound familiar? I’ll bet they didn’t think of casting George Foreman, but that would have been great.

Some may say that Sylvester Stallone is just trying to squeeze a little more juice from the Rocky movie franchise - that he hasn’t has a box office hit in years and this is merely a futile attempt at regaining his faded star status. Well I hope those people shut up and let me go to see Rocky Balboa in peace. I’m sure whatever happens, if Stallone stays true to the Rocky movie formula, we will have another feel-good movie this Christmas season. What’s wrong with that?

Hey, when do those Rocky Balboa tickets go on sale? Hey, I wrote this without once using the word ‘knockout’ to describe anything! There’s hope for us all.

When Alice Faye left us in 1998, she did more than take with her the redeeming talents of a singer turned actress. Alice Faye emblazoned upon a number of generations the integrity, stamina, and grit of a tough and talented legend.

A child raised in Hell’s Kitchen, Alice Faye advanced early and continuously. She was a good student and she graduated from public school in New York. That same year, when she was thirteen, Alice auditioned for the Earl Carroll Vanities—instead of enrolling in high school. Initially, the mature-for-her-age Faye was grated a place with the troupe, but was turned away when it was discovered she was only thirteen.

Never one to be sidetracked by rejection or by fudging birthdates, Alice Faye again tried out, this time for a place in the Chester Hale Vaudeville Unit—where she was accepted after auditioning and after noting on the application forms a birth date that made her eighteen years old. (She was fifteen.) As web masters Roy Bishop and George Ulrich report, Faye would later interview with chuckles over her masking her true age and at how her life was thereafter lived as one older than she actually was.

As a number one talent (as many Tin Pan Alley and other song-masters attest), Alice Faye sang and pioneered and ushered he popularity of over twenty songs, songs that she would sing on the radio—in the first years—and then as part of her role as singer-actress—in over thirty-five feature films, TV and other appearances, and filmed events.

But as talented and crowd-pleasing as she was, Alice Faye was also principled and convicted, an independent thinker with a sovereign soul. She resisted allowing her image to be made into the alluring and marketable “cheesecake” type or pin-up girl type. Once married and with children, she followed through with mothering and housewifery in a style that reinforced her attitude toward her family—which was of devotion to them over her career. And when she began to resent the pressures of a 1940’s Hollywood where producers were phasing her out for another up-and-coming starlet (or before she felt resentment), she “left Hollywood on her own terms:” she drove off the lot of a picture in progress and didn’t look back. (Despite the tabloids at the time, which mocked up a rivalry between Alice Faye and Betty Grable, authentic reports show not only was she friends with Grable but she left Hollywood of her own volition, no one else’s.)

While she also returned (seventeen years later), to do one more film, then relegated her work to parts and roles she chose… such as cameo appearances on “This is Your Life,” “The Love Boat,” “The Dean Martin Show,” numerous others, and in roles such as spokesperson for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in support of living “active and healthy senior years.”

Alice Faye left behind the notion that women have a voice, that age is just a number, and that getting out while the getting’s good may not be all that bad a move after all.

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