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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Celebs gone bad


*Amanda Bynes is simply doing what all actors who have slipped off Fame's slippery slope do: get any publicity they can. She's smart, though. She picks on major stars, like Rihanna, to 'insult', so she can get the widest media coverage possible while she talks plastic surgery, police molestation, etc etc. The only thing is, Bynes is not Britney. They both have very little talent but at least Spears has some charisma even when shaving her head.
*Michael Douglas saying going down on women is what gave him oral cancer is about as low as you can go. Does he have no concept about how people will now think of Catherine Zeta-Jones? The first wife has already leapt out of the woodwork claiming to be 100% disease-free (gag), all of which only makes me think everyone needs to be on medication. No surprise at all that now Douglas is saying that wasn't what he meant. Perhaps English isn't his first language; sensitivity certainly is not.
*It's the worst thing that can happen to you, yet Angelina Jolie manages to make a PR exercise out of her preventive surgery. Although it has to be said that being open about her health can only be positive for other women who will follow her example and hopefully live longer, there is something about this woman that is utterly untrustworthy. It's as though she thought to herself, 'This is happening, how do I spin it?' Your breasts don't define you? Really? Sounds great, very PC, but the truth would have sounded better.
We just don't believe Jolie's public presentation of Self. Why is that? Her doublespeak on adultery? The fact that she has no friends? Her one-role-fits-all acting chops? Her expression when out and about? Who knows.
And yet. This is the kind of thing where you feel nothing, in the end, but sisterhood and sympathy. 
If I had one wish it would be to allow all of us to go gently into that good night.

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