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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Re: Your self-satisfied/highly innacurate headline: "Lindsay Lohan, perennial party girl, serial dater, occasional actress"--reality would seem to contradict your glibness if you take a look at a partial filmmography:
I Know Who Killed Me
Georgia Rule
Chapter 27
Bobby
Just My Luck
A Prairie Home Companion
Herbie Fully Loaded
Mean Girls
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Freaky Friday
Then there's three CDs I'm aware of, the last of which is a very credible teenpop/rock effort. And the imdb lists about 5 films in-progress.
When did Salon become a priggish--did the author spend his late teens at a Buddhist retreat studying Spinoza?-- less-informed US?
I can understand the focus on politicians and religious leaders, after all the are to be held accountable by the public they supposedly serve; but who cares about the rest?
Lindsey, Brittney and whoever else happens to be in the bad girls and boys news, is that worthy material for Salon?
Just wondering...
EMM.
I like to drive around with DMX's "My Niggaz" blasting out the car stereo. Windows down. Even next to cops, even black cops. You have two choices: a) send me to rehab or b) shut the ever loving fuck up. City law says if you can hear more than 75ft away only then is it a violation.
I recommend people grow a non transparent skin and get over themselves. If you really want to be offended at everyone everywhere all the time then fine. No one can stop you. But we'll just point and laugh.
So this is a new sign of the times- boorish, spoiled, generally-drunken "celebs", committing potential prison offenses (tell me that Lindsay Lohan never risked anyones' life, driving under the influence, like Mel did?) and then sanctimoniously "checking into rehab". Why are these offensive people worshiped by the public? Role models, they are not. Good way to state our revulsion with their dangerous behavior? Boycott their movies. How long before we read "What ever happened to Lindsay Lohan?" "Gee, I don't know, wasn't she a lush?
how long before they open rehab centers that treat imbecility and egomania?
Here's hoping ...
I think Salon's bias is showing in selecting two Republican Congressmen and not Patrick Kennedy. Patrick Kennedy entered rehab for the third or fourth time after his traffic accident last year. And he is hardly alone in his family for having entered rehab. As a matter of fact, the whole article could have been written about the Kennedy's.
However, except for the idea that celebrities are getting special treatment, the idea that anybody with a drug or alcohol problem is getting treatment is good. And the idea that people are going to rehab instead of prison is a positive trend, particularly if it were made available to a wider group of people who's underlying problem is substance abuse, not violent criminality.
...and give these people what they deserve...
Isaiah Washington? - unprofessional, fire him.
Lindsay Lohan? - dumb bitch, next.
Britney Spears? - call child services
Mel Gibson? - needs ass-whuppin' in the drunk tank.
Tara Conner? - take away her crown, call penthouse
Nicole Richie? - pathetic. hook her up with Rosie's chef.
Pat O'Brien? - laughable. mid-life desperation (ala Marv)
Ted Haggard? - future role model in cell block 8.
Michael Richards? - who really cares?
Mark Foley? - future bitch in cell block 8.
James Frey? - life's tough (unless you have to invent it) loser.
Rep. Bob Ney - comic relief in cell block 8.(...alcohol?)
...why are people so quick to idolize notoriety, and then maniacally obsess,(as in "the big letdown"), when these people reveal their human side?
If these people are celebrities, should we automatically hold them "in high esteem?"
Should we let the off so easy?
No, they were a bunch of lucky bastards that didn't know how to handle their 'privilege'...
Kick them all in the ass, like ordinary people, and move on.
I miss the pre-rehab days, when celebrities had real drug addictions and died from them. Jim Morrison, Keith Moon, John Bonham, Pigpen, Brian Jones, Judy Garland. Marilyn Monroe-- either they died directly from their drugs and drink or from a disease resulting from their addiction of choice. (Morrison's cardiac failure was due to subacute bacterial endocarditis -- SBE, a disease not uncommon among injectiong drug users --- and Pigpen's fatal hemorrhage came from drinking damage. And don't give me any crap about Marilyn Monroe being murdered - that girl was so voluntarily drugged up on movie sets she made Crazy Guggenheim look positively studious ). I liked all of those guys and gals --- but dude, you pays yer money and you takes yer chances.
Certainly, there was no using rehab back then as a penance for a social faux pas, like calling somebody a faggot or saying the Jews start all the wars. Or exposing your lady parts to salivating paparazzi and thus, to every adolescent and post-adolescent male in the world who has internet access.
It's sad that singers, artists, rock idols, famous actors and actresses died of drink and drugs in the past, but at least they actually played with fire; at least they lived on the edge and they knew death was a possibilty, if not a probability. The actors, writers and singers nowadays are such wusses. "Waa, I took an Ambien and crashed into a cop car. I need rehab!" "I'm an anti-Semite! Helllp! It's not my fault!"
Go take a handful of Heminevrin, or chase down a trail mix of barbiturates and aspirin with a bottle of Scotch, bitches! Get real.
These sick people that Salon has paraded out in public only serve to alert the rest of this sick, crazy world that transformation doesn't work, that if you're a sinner, that's it. You're done. Stick a fork in yourself.
If real healing transformation takes place in any of these individuals, will Salon be there to report the miracle? Probably not.
We focus on what we want to hear and believe only what we have set our minds to believing. Everything else is screened out or otherwise delegitimized so that we can go on living our tragic lives towards an increasingly bitter end.
People can and do change, but Hollywood would be the last place a real seeker would look to find their salvation. It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man/woman to make it into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Once there, the sick and silent majority left behind don't want to hear about a way out of their self imposed exile and other existentialist miseries. It's just not "good" news from a media standpoint.
And yet it is the only GOOD NEWS that there is left to hear.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
