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Winning words National

24.02.10

How random one�s life can be at times. Take the actor Colin Firth who has just won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Leading actor for his �portrayal as a grief-stricken �professor in A Single Man, directed by the acclaimed fashion designer Tom Ford.

Firth was writing an e-mail to Ford explaining why he didn�t want to take the role when a repair man arrived to mend his fridge. �Distracted, he forgot about the �
e-mail. This gave him a chance to reconsider the part, so now he says he owes his award to the �anonymous repair man.

The Baftas are often seen as �precursors to the Oscars and �although James Cameron�s blockbusting science-fiction extravaganza Avatar is expected to sweep the Hollywood board next month, it didn�t seem to impress the �British judges.

Cameron had to make do with two minor awards as his former wife Kathryn Bigelow made off with the Best �Director and Best Film titles for her low-budget war drama The Hurt Locker.

Just goes to show that big isn�t always best.

The fashion industry has never been particularly interested in women who look like women. Designers have always preferred the stick-thin kind, on whom their clothes hang perfectly but who bear little resemblance to the average female.

Women starve themselves half to death to get down to sample sizes, usually a size 6 to a size 8. Controversy rages every time a size-zero model looks a bit too anorexic, but the shows go on.

Every now and then, however, some brave soul rediscovers womanly curves. The designer Mark Fast is a staunch �defender of normal-sized women and has, opnce again, used curvy models on the catwalk at London Fashion Week. One of them, Hayley Morley, is 5ft 9in tall and a healthy size 14. She says she has received hundreds of letters from young girls saying thank you for being a more

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