Dita Von Teese also works in an industry that equates success and sexiness with being young and yet she's a 50-year-old woman who, like Taylor Swift, is at the top of her game and the best in her field and is still as successful and sexy as ever — no matter how you define those words.
"...the interaction between an anonymous individual and his car, the transits of his body across the polished cellulose panels and vinyl seating, his face silhouetted against the instrument dials.
"Caring for him, I wanted to stroke his scarred thighs and abdomen, offering him the automobile injuries carried by my own body in place of those imaginary wounds he wished upon the actress." -J.G. Ballard, Crash
JAMES SPADER as James Ballard
CRASH (1996), dir. David Cronenberg
Captain's log, stardate 2291.6. En route to deliver a crucial shipment of grain to a colony on Setlik II, we encountered something more pressing: a time traveler.
STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS 2x07 "Those Old Scientists"