Hooray for Hollywood Pedophiles?

Hooray for Hollywood Pedophiles?

The 1937 Johnny Mercer golden oldie ”Hooray for Hollywood” has long been a staple on Oscar night when movie celebs of today and yesteryear wax misty-eyed at the memorable melody, totally oblivious that Mercer’s song was composed as a satire on stardom and the young hopefuls who pursue that elusive dream.

The lyrics have since been altered to eliminate lines denigrating Tinseltown such as those describing it as a place where ”any shop girl can be a top girl/If she pleases Mister Businessman” but the amoral nature of the place hasn’t changed.

The “casting couch” may have been replaced by a mattress along the lines of a Sealy Posturepedic as Gwyneth Paltrow has noted but, if anything, Hollywood is even sleazier now than it was 74 years ago. In addition to becoming a gay-loving, leftist-liberal stronghold, it’s also devolved into a haven for rapacious pedophiles according to former child star, Corey Feldman.

Now 40 and long past his roles in “Goonies,” “Stand By Me,” and “The Lost Boys,” Feldman loosed a blockbuster charge against the “vultures” in the entertainment industry during a “Nightline” interview: ”I can tell you that the number one problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia. That’s the biggest problem for children in this industry. . . it’s all done under the radar. It’s the big secret.”

If it ever were a secret, it’s a secret no more. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5223)

Michelle Obama, Fashion Plate?

Michelle Obama, Fashion Plate?

I readily and happily admit I’m no fashion maven and readily concede I long thought a “fashion plate” was a complimentary way of referring to a nice piece of dinnerware.

I also admit that I once published an opinion, http://tiny.cc/sgsbf, that hailing America’s First Lady Michelle Obama as one of 2009′s “100 Hottest Women,” according to Maxim, was grossly mistaken at best, bizarre at worst. Even if she didn’t make Maxim’s hotness cut in 2010, on reconsideration, I guess that’s yet another example of beauty–and hotness–existing in the minds and perceptions of beholders.

However, I draw the line at Vogue’s recent designation of Michelle Obama as among the world’s 10 ”best dressed” women. Looking all gussied up de-planing in Mexico City, she placed third behind Blake Lively and Marion Cotillard and just before Jessica Biel and Alexa Chung: http://tiny.cc/qbnp2

If males can be catty, I guess that’s catty, as well as rude and mean-spirited, commenting on a woman’s appearance, but in the case of the pretentious Michelle Obama, it’s merited.

As an article on IOwntheWorld.com adds to its headline on that best dressed news, “No, Seriously.” However, Vogue is apparently as serious as was Maxim in 2009.

I mean, seriously, really, Michelle Obama as “best dressed?” Best dressed for where? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2765)