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Message   Michael Dukelsky    Alexander Koryagin   Beauty sleep   October 22, 2018
 11:21 AM *  

Hello Alexander,

Friday October 19 2018, Alexander Koryagin wrote to All:

 AK> -----Beginning of the citation-----
 AK> The second day at the Chateau Marmont was hotter than the first. In
 AK> fact, the temperatures were breaking records. Fans whirred in the
 AK> lobby, where people sat flapping books under their chins.

 AK> The atmosphere of Los Angeles was also heating up, because the Academy
 AK> Awards were the following night. Already, in the hotels and smart
 AK> houses, famous directors, producers, actors, actresses, screenwriters,
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 AK> musicians, lawyers, and agents were getting their beauty sleep and
 AK> preparing themselves for the big event. The clothes designers,
 AK> hairdressers, beauticians, jewelers, limousine companies, flower
 AK> shops, image therapists, and speechwriters of the city were working
 AK> overtime.
 AK> ----- The end of the citation -----

Actors were put before actresses. It is sexism! :-)

 AK> What is a beauty sleep?

It's a sleep before midnight.

 AK> If the celebrities were sleeping how did they attend "the clothes
 AK> designers, hairdressers, beauticians, jewelers..."?

I may suggest that they spent very little time for a sleep, just a beauty
sleep, and most of the night they prepared themselves for the event. Although
for me it would sound more natural if they did not sleep till early in the
morning in their preparations. So maybe there are other explanations.

Michael

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