For a waitress like me stuck in a man's tie and a boring white button down, she's the ultimate style icon. Her black eyeliner and over-lashed black lashes perfectly match her pink-painted pout, and her peach diner dress and white toeless heels look awesome... even better when she throws her leopard print coat on top of it all. But my favorite Rayette Dipesto style companent is her immaculate hair. It's bleached golden. It curls around her face like an angel's halo hovers above a cherub's head. It looks like a million bucks whether up or down. That's why when she tells her (unknown to Rayette) foil and main Nicholson competitor Katherine that she loves her "head of hair," I laugh every time. Katherine's hair looks like a frizzed out mess of shit, and her outfits that consist of high-waisted sagging jeans, hideous Dances with Wolves coats, rose-colored turtle neck sweaters and armpit hair (I swear...) don't hold a candle to DiPesto's duds. Might Rayette be a little unsophisticated? Desperate? A tad annoying and a bit unable to take the hint? Who cares? Girlfriend was ready to love Bobby DuPea till the end of time and to do it with manners, a song in her heart, and the upmost level of style and chic ever seen in American 1970's cinema.Plus Karen Black can act the hell out of any role, and anyone that can hold her own opposite Jack Nicholson is okay in my book.
