I wish I had written this:
Madonna getting upset with her daughter for dressing too slutty is like Mr. T getting upset with his son for pitying too many fools. I think there was a period in Madonna’s life where all she wore was spaghetti pasta and condoms.
I give that two thumbs up.
Mr Furious
That site is hysterical, I check it fairly often. I find it fascinating/surprising it’s on your reading list John.
demimondian
Yeah, thesuperficial is on my list, too. FWIW, I disagree with the author — a lot of parents want their kids to not make the same mistakes they made; that’s not hypocrisy, but humility.
John Cole
I can honestly say that it surprises me that at this point, there is anything I can say or do that surprises anyone here.
Richard 23
Links, please.
jg
Wow. I sure didn’t se that answer coming. You’re just full of surprises.
Mr Furious
I’m always surprised when John chimes in on his own threads…
;-)
Rome Again
I agree demi.
Bubblegum Tate
This word used in connection with Madonna is a complete non-sequitur.
Andrew
Except that this is Madonna we’re talking about, and she’s actually building a multi-ethnic pseudo-British/Catholic precursor gene pool for the Bene Gesserit.
norbizness
Is like Glenn “Can I Trust You, Congressman?” Beck questioning the McCarthyite tactics of Keith Olbermann.
Rome Again
OH yeah, except that, carry on.
Krista
Bit of a difference, too. Madonna was a grown woman when she was walking around with her junk hanging out. Lourdes is what…ten?
I know the Superficial is being tongue-in-cheek, but using their logic, I’d be a hypocrite for not letting my (theoretical) child have a nice cold beer after school, because I often have one after work.
I am now wondering, however, if Mr. T has a kid, and if so, if he’s pitied any fools.
Andrew
I can’t believe that people are discussing anything written on the Superficial in a serious manner.
You have to back in time as far as yesterday to find gems such as:
Krista
We discuss everything seriously. Any opportunity to spout off about our viewpoints and opinions, we’re ALL over it. :)
Bubblegum Tate
Well, I imagine that he starts off granting amnesty to oafs and works up from there.
norbizness
“Mr. T. Releases Pity List ’85”
Marcus Wellby
Since the topic is celebrity blogging, I have a question — has Helen Mirren recently spoken out against Bush? I only ask because today is the 2nd day she is featured in less than flattering links on Drudge, and I just wonder who on the right she pissed off.
Rome Again
What sexist pig wrote that?
Rome Again
They need a reason? Isn’t just the fact that it’s “Hollyweird: the Jews take over the media” enough?
David
What sexist pig wrote that?
Someone who calls himself “The Superficial.” It’s not like you weren’t warned.
Andrew
An awesome one?
Rome Again
I didn’t realize that clicking a link meant I was supposed to ingratiate myself with their last several days worth of entries, sorry.
David
Ingratiate yourself with several days of entries? I’m just talking about the title of the blog.
Andrew
It’s not like you need more than any single entry:
Rome Again
I didn’t follow the previous links on the site, was I supposed to?
Andrew
Or:
ThymeZone
Who is Madonna?
Rome Again
It was the particular story of Jennifer Love Hewitt that I was wondering about, okay, so I totally missed the point and The Superficial is a completely sexist pig (I am female and a bit of a pushover when it comes to giving people the benefit of the doubt. I see the point now, perhaps it is just my own problem wanting to think there’s good in us all (cue The Diary of Anne Frank).
Rome Again
I could kiss you for that!
Andrew
You are completely misunderestimating him.
E.g.:
Zifnab
J. Love’s boobs were freaking amazing. Even you’ve got to admit that, Rome.
Steve
This guy finds Tori Spelling attractive? Not even Dick Cheney has judgment that bad.
Andrew
If missed sarcasm were a bio-fuel, we could now stop importing oil from the middle east.
Rome Again
Zif, I’m female, I don’t spend a lot of time looking at celebrity women.
Zifnab
Then you’re totally missing out.
Rome Again
Whoops, realized I missed a word there… I’m a “real” female…
I can’t get all worked up over the fakeness of celebrity.
Bucky
Show me the person that isn’t a hypocrite with their own child, and I’ll show you an honest man
Pb
The Superficial: sexist pig, or fair and balanced? Let’s go to the videotape! Pictures of Jennifer Love Hewitt at the event in question. Yeah, I think she looks pretty good. Now it’s Rome Again’s turn, though:
Oh, that hurts. J-Love, what do you have to say for yourself:
Now how fake is that–a celebrity who doesn’t want to take her clothes off for money? Unpossible!
Paul L.
Yep,
Remember when he hired that foul-mouthed feminist blogger who believes that the Duke Lacrosse players are guilty of rape despite the evidence, posted that opinion on her blog and deleted that post when it came to the attention of his opponents to run his blog.
Or his comment “You know education, if you make the most of it, and you study hard, and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
Rome Again
She still makes a living acting like someone she isn’t, that’s still fake in my eyes.
Richard 23
Give it up, Paul L.
Pb
You mean… she’s an actress? Yeah, that’s totally fake, like being a satirist or a fiction writer or something. We’d all be so much better off if we just stuck to non-fiction documentaries–keeping it real, as it were.
Andrew
Two nits to pick:
1) She can act?
2) She still makes a living?
Rome Again
Well, forgive me if I see more value in real people who make a real living wage for performing real necessary jobs.
Rome Again
By the way, that bustline does nothing for me, it’s looks saline-filled.
Zifnab
Fixed.
Andrew
Like strippers?
Stacy
Some people consider the 1930s the Golden Age of Hollywood. It was not coincidental that the Great Depression was also going on. People loved to spend a nickel or a dime or whatever to go to the movies for a couple of hours to see people pretending to be things they weren’t. It’s called “entertainment” and many people find value in it.
Have we taken entertainment and made it into a cult of celebrity? Yes. Does that make the original idea of entertainment have any less value? I don’t think so.
Rome Again
Is it necessary? Probably not except to a dirty old man who can’t get it up at home and needs a little help, but there IS that…
It also puts food on the table for the stripper’s kids (and yes, many strippers DO have kids).
So, my answer is YES!
Krista
Meh. Her boobs are okay, but her acting is sub-par and she’s got a face that could grate cheese.
Rome Again: Why so harsh on actors? No, the entertainment industry isn’t “necessary”, but were it to screech to a halt, a hell of a lot of people would be out of a job. Yes, some actors seem like they’re just in it for the publicity and the free swag bag at events. But then you have other actors who really seem to take pride in what they do, and work damn hard to help bring to life a story that occasionally, helps to change the way that we look at the world.
Rome Again
My love of actors is drawn to those who try to put on a great performance… Jennifer Love Hewitt just isn’t one of them AFAIC.
I’m more the Helena Bonham Carter type, I guess.
Zifnab
Helena Bonham Carter?
Ok, I’ll admit she’s got nice boobs too.
Rome Again
Hmmm Zif, I click on that link and all I see is “Photobucket bandwidth exceeded”
I will admit that she did that nude scene in “The Wings of the Dove” which she was nominated for an academy award, but, I liker her corset stuff mostly, and her versatility into Fight Club and Merlin were magical after so many corset appearances.
Another actress who I admire for this kind of crossover thing is Kate Beckinsale who played the lovely fair maiden Hero in Much Ado About Nothing.
Tsulagi
She acts? And she has a face?
The Other Steve
We all know Madonna is getting old when she hears music her daughter listens to and says “I don’t understand the crap these kids are listening to!”
Rome Again
and of course, Helena Bonham Carter’s Ophelia is just breathtaking.
Rome Again
http://www.geocities.com/queeniemab/hamz3.JPG
Helena Bonham Carter’s Ophelia, now THAT is true acting.
A review
jg
She will always be Marla to me.
Rome Again
Boy, are you missing out.
jg
Missing out on what?
Zifnab
Ok, that’s just sick Rome. She’s, like, what? 10? Yesh.
Rome Again
NO, she is NOT 10, she is a young and vibrant woman. She is old enough to have been betrothed.
Rome Again
Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View
Lady Jane Grey in Lady Jane
Ophelia in Hamlet
Caroline Abbott in Where Angels Fear to Tread
Helen Schlegel in Howard’s End
Elizabeth in Frankenstein
Amanda in Mighty Aphrodite
Olivia in Twelfth Night
Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove (with nude sex scene)
Rosemary in Keep the Aspidistra Flying (aka A Merry War)
Morgan Le Fey in Merlin
Jane Hatchard in The Theory of Flight
that’s most of her most famous work before playing Marla. She’s done a lot since including Ari in Planet of the Apes. She’s currently working on a production of Sweeney Todd…
Yes, you missed a LOT.
jg
I said she’ll always be Marla to me and you went all HBC fanboy on me and acted like I said she’s only been in one film. Relax chica. Marla was my favorite character of hers because Fight Club is one of my favorite movies, that’s all. I wasn’t trying to impune her career or anything. I doubt any other actress could have said ‘Slide’ quite as sexy as she did.
Same with Audrey Hepburn. She will always be Holly Golightly to me even though I liked her better in Roman Holiday and she has a body of work that stretches decades. What can you do.
Rome Again
I’m just saying there is a whole history there before her brash characterization of Marla. Yes, Marla was a great performance too, not saying it wasn’t.
If someone says “missing out on what?” I answer them. Don’t get all craggy when I actually come up with an answer.
jg
What is it that you got out of the words, ‘she’ll always be Marla to me’, that made you think I didn’t appreciate anything else she’s done? What lead you to believe I was missing out on something? Because I didn’t choose her performance in Hamlet? Or her work in her other husbands movies?
Rome Again
Righty-o and whose wife was she when she did A Room with a View or Howard’s End?
No, it was the non-recognition of anything older than about the year 2000 when she’s been acting in great movies for a good 15-20 years before that.
Rome Again
What I got out of the phrase “she’ll always be Marla to me” is the idea that you don’t even want to investigate any great acting she did years before that.
She’ll always be a whole slew of great characters to me, I don’t shut out any opportunity to see her. I loved her in Lady Jane (as young as she was) but I loved her in so many things she’s done through the years that I can’t peg just one wacharacter on her. She is one of those actresses that does so much more than just one character. That WAS my original point. She’s a crossover actress.
demimondian
Jeebus, folks, what do you expect form a site called “thesuperficial”? Deep thought? You might aw well expect serious good government advice from a site called “balloon juice”, for heaven’s sake!
Anderson
The Superficial is great. The one about Ashley Olsen, clown prostitute, convulsed me with not-so-guilty laughter.
Assholery for its own sake — it’s purely aesthetic.
Jon H
Richard 23 writes:
“Links, please.”
Come on, wearing sausage links would be a step too far, even for Madonna.
Jon H
The silly conservatives who hyperventilated about Paris, Lohan, and Britney going commando and flashing the paparazzi, worried that America’s yout would emulate that behavior clearly don’t read the Superficial and its comment threads.
Andrew
I think it means that he kills puppies.
demimondian
I think it means that his taste in actresses kills puppies.
Of course, what do I know — I think Kate Beckinsale’s performance as Hero is eminently forgettable. Mind you, it’s arguable that forgettability is the greatest height to which an actress can aspire in that role, but still…Hero? C’mon, RA. Beckinsale was totally out-shone by Emma Thompson’s Beatrice in that film.
Frankly, I always thought that the Merchant-Ivory films were overrated. Lots of Anglophiliac Shakespeareana, which gets the high-brow commentators all hot and bothered, but, really, not very interesting performances.
Punchy
If you wanna read some certifiably GENIUS comedy writing (not to mention, some odd pics), you need to see this site
Not so much a blog as some guy writing the world’s funniest pic captions/explanations.
Randolph Fritz
I get the feeling that Madonna is worrying more about clothes Lourdes can’t dance in…
Buck
Thanks Punchy. Just added that one to my favorites.
jg
Why would you get that idea? I can see no reason for you to make that assumption.