L Word Trippple L awards are back. Last week, I brought you episode one of the LLL awards, in which I hypothesized that the show gave its stars like Cybill Shepherd and Pam Grier, longevity, youthfulness, and beauty, as well as new careers.

Well, here is episode II. And these women are not only as beautiful as they were 20 years ago, but MORE beautiful, which is why they get an additional award: The SS Award named after Susan Sarandon, for becoming more attractive over time.

She may have won an Academy Award for her performance in Children of a Lesser God, but move the Oscar out of the way and make room for the LLL award. As television’s first deaf lesbian character, Jodi Lerner, the the bohemian, iconoclastic, sculptor, helps Bette loosen up and give up some control. Whether she’s seducing or sculpting, this heart breaker signs, seals, AND delivers. Unless she’s rocking crimped hair, which she did in one scene in a restaurant… IN PUBLIC… ON A DOUBLE DATE! Let’s hope Marlee lets go of the 80’s and embraces the 2000’s as much as they’ve embraced her. Because she used to be cute, but she’s now beautiful, the child of a greater goddess.

Jennifer Beals is taking her passion and making it happen, as Bette Porter, the control freak, intellectual, sharp, sophisticated, cultured, power-suit wearing, art buff. It’s no surprise that she’s looking even more beautiful than she did 20 years ago when she was just a steel-town girl down and out in Pittsburgh, working as an exotic dancer by night and steel welder by day, living with Grunt, her pet pit bull. (moving out of Pittsburgh and the steel industry really works wonders on the skin.) Bette is a maniac, maniac, on the show, when it comes to her daughter, her convictions, high waisted pants and skirts, and her girlfriend Jodi. It should come as no surprise, that Jennifer and Marlee are old friends from the 1980’s. I think they met at a glasses store sale. How else can you explain their chemistry? I mean Bette is so crazy for Jodi, she became fluent in sign language in one week. Take out your gloves and your helmets, because the sparks flying between these two LLL are hotter than the wielding sparks in a Pittsburgh steel plant.

If you love these LLL women as much as I do, you’ll want to support them and learn more about them. Marlee Matlin is a spokeswoman for The National Captioning Institute (NCI) , whose mission is ensuring that deaf and hard of hearing people, as well as others who can benefit from the service, have access to television’s entertainment and news through the technology of closed captioning. So and learn more about Captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing people here.