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Tue Dec 22
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In regards to Reid having to "prove" herself to the public - Does this mean she is only proving herself to the male audience that 'Playboy' attracts?
Is she categorizing her success based on acceptance into the male realm of "hot girl"?
This girl obviously has a lot more problems than botched plastic surgeries. Sad. So Sad.
12/13/09
I propose that those might be plenty sufficient explanations for her choice, right there. I don't dispute your interpretations...but I note that they seem to rely on a lot of additional assumptions that might or might not be warranted here.
12/13/09
Check out some of the comment's on today's SJ with the Jersey Shore people, or any other current one with Paris Hilton, or assorted Real Housewives. They're the same ones you'd read back in Tara Reid's day. People saw her as overexposed and undertalented and wished she would go away already. So why not now?
There are millions of talented actors who never make it and would love to have the chance she had. Let somebody with more respect, graciousness, and professionalism have a shot.
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Your argument sounds to me like "stupid woman, nobody liked her then so why would we like her now? It's her fault for getting botched plastic surgery." This is a human being. A male actor would never find themselves in the position she's in, and it's not because they're any smarter.
12/13/09
I won't be at all surprised if, when Megan Fox or Paris Hilton or Heidi Montag crashes hard, the people who were criticizing them and wanting Jezebel to stop promoting them so they can go away to make room for serious actors will be filled with sympathy and talking about spoon-feeding them something or other.
It just bugs me that after Jezzies go on about their fantasies of nursing Britney/Lindsay /whomever back to health and happiness, they wish for them to make a grand comeback. I liked Lindsay in Mean Girls, but she's not a great actor, and I think she's gotten a ridiculous amount of chances. Same with Britney, she's not even a great singer. I remember reading in the NYT almost 10 years ago that she was worth over $400 million. That was before all her perfumes and everything, so she's probably made a ton more since. She really doesn't have to suffer all this burdensome fame that she complains about.
12/13/09
Lame argument. There is not a finite amount of fame that Tara Reid is taking up.
There absolutely is a finite amount of space in the press, and more importantly, in roles for actresses, and budgets for salaries. What a strange thing to say.
I know she's a human being. I hardly tore her to pieces. A successful film career and great wealth is not a human right. Talented struggling actors with serious work ethics who were passed over for her are human beings too.
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I think you're actually right about this, particularly with regards to Britney. I think she's someone who wants to be a star and have the fans and the money. Not that that's automatically wrong, anyway, I don't know how much she's really ungrateful for all she's had the opportunity to do. I do think that people tend to talk about her like she's one of the rebelling kids on an episode of Toddlers and Tiaras. It comes off as a bit patronizing and I think there's a sexist component to it.
Did you ever see "Scott Baio is 46 and Single"? He was going around talking to old girlfriends about why he became this inveterate pussy hound. At one point he was on the phone with Henry Winkler and lamented about how being famous since Happy Days made him think Playboy was a catalog. Henry Winkler was like "Cut the crap, I've been famous since Happy Days and I've stayed happily married to my wife.
Fame doesn't chew up and spit out most people, just a highly visible minority. It's about upbringing, but it's also about choices and attitude.
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Yep I agree with you to an extent cause I don't also think most of the people you listed are talented but then look at how Robert Downey Jnr. and other male stars who fucked up were able to pick up their careers. When Drew Barrymore crashed during her early teen years, and then started working - she was asked to pee in a cup to prove she wasn't still using which male stars on the rise again are never asked to do. Charlie Sheen, Mickey Rourke and countless others anyone? :-)
I mean despite the level of talent, it seems easier for people to re-embrace male stars who have crashed than female stars.
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yep, ok.
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Well put, Hortense. I've thought the same thing about Britney Spears. Her success - or her "fitness for public consumption" - is measured less on the quality of her songs than on the size of her ass.
12/13/09
Poor thing.
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sorry, I know it doesn't add much, but thats all I could really say to that.
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She previously had dated Russian hockey star Sergei Fedorov. In the late 1990s, she dated actor Steve Burton and still is close to him and his family. She briefly dated American football players Tom Brady, Jerome Bettis, Jeremy Shockey, Kyle Boller, Kevin Mawae, and tennis player Mark Philippoussis.
12/13/09
And Shockey? Ugh. I mean, I have him on one of my fantasy teams...but he looks like Football Frankenstein. With Brees's old, terrible hair.
12/13/09
I know this is a bit of a generalized statement but I saw the list and rather went, "ah-ha!"
I really just feel sad for her and can't even be snarky in any way, shape nor form (save for me not liking any of her "work" as an actress)
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