It was a busy Tuesday afternoon for actress Lindsay Lohan. Wearing a skirt full of traffic signs, LiLo spent part of the day at the Paper Magazine March Issue luncheon, which was held at West Hollywood’s Sunset Marquis Hotel & Villas.
It’s refreshing to see Lindsay look so good and so obviously happy. I am not a big fan of her but she looks great in these pictures. Classy and fun at the same time (beside the shoes but it’s ok). Good choice for her.
I’m amused by Paris Hilton. The most valuable commodity today is attention. And there are many ways to get it. From sex videos to stupid pet tricks to talking bad about Muslims. Whenever she tries to promote herself, it falls flat. Books, records, movies, etc. don’t work for Paris. Because she’s actually a platform. Like Digg and YouTube.
Frustrated with her party-girl reputation, Paris Hilton has decided that the best way to get people's attention so that she can inform them of all the charity work she does on a regular basis is by posing half-naked on the cover of a magazine.
"It makes me angry because people don't know the real me," Paris told the magazine 944 in a recent interview, which included a series of photos of the heiress garbed in a green bikini and other revealing attire."Yes, I do get paid to go to parties," she said. "But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something."
Pictures of 944 Magazine.
Lindsay Lohan is trying to pick up the pieces of the chaos she calls her life, which has been totally ruined by drugs, alcohol and an 'I don’t give a damn attitude' towards the world. Evidently she is getting some professional help.
In order to salvage her film career which ended with a Razzie Award nomination for the worst performance in a film by an actress for 2007 (“I Know who Killed Me”), she decided to bare almost all and imitate Marilyn Monroe in her last photo shoot for New York Magazine.
Lindsay posed for the shots at the Beverly Hills Bel-Air Hotel on February 5 and prepared for the project by doing "250 crunches" the night before, and stated to our sources that she was "comfortable with it." But so far the overwhelming critical opinion by most observers is that she doesn’t quite cut it as America’s sex symbol of today. You be the judge. To see the photos
Celebrities gather for NYIIFF Nancy Miracle was seen at films Lunatic and contract killer and Chris's film short and at the after parties at Bamboo 52 and Azzia and China Club.
The recent film festival was attended by many celebrities notable is Nancy Miracle who turns heads as the daughter of Marilyn Monroe she is personable and beautiful and makes the parties pop. She attended, Lunatic, a great cockney movie and Contract Killer and the film short Last Night by another Englishman.
Marilyn's real dna a genes speak through the photos taken last october of her daughter Nancy. Nancy is as georgeous as her mother and the nudes of her are too sexy.
These photos were made available through the Marilyn Monroe foundation in oct 07. Because he couldn't get Nancy to do a copy he used an 18 year old. The real last sitting can be seen on i-italy.us and the links through the Marilyn Monroe foundation.
Nancy will be in a movie this coming year a documentary about her life in Holland, the Netherlands.
I am continually amazed by the level of celebrity worship we engage in here in the U.S. I don't pay that much attention to what happens with Paris Hilton, or any other celebrities for that matter, but in the past month you would have almost had to be completely shut off from the media not to know that Ms. Hilton was having a little problem in her life called "going to jail." Last night I briefly turned on the tube and found myself watching her triumphant release as she and her escape vehicle were swarmed by photographers and paparazzi.
Why do we have such a cultural obsession with celebrities? And why are we even more intrigued when something bad happens to them? For example: Why was Anna Nicole Smith's tragic death more important in the media's eyes than her life, and why did people pay any attention? And even if you don't try to follow any information on celebrities in the media, you are still confronted with the magazine headlines at the checkout in the grocery store. I may be close to completely Hollywood illiterate, so I'm not sure why Lindsay Lohan is a celebrity - but from looking at magazine covers while standing in the grocery line, I know that she has alcohol and eating disorder problems. I think it is strange that I actually know that.
Some experts suggest that the root of this mass obsession with celebrities is programmed into our DNA. Stuart Fischoff, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Media Psychology at the California State University at Los Angeles, states that "What's in our DNA, as a social animal, is the interest in looking at alpha males and females; the ones who are important in the pack," and that we are set up to "follow the leader." (See A New Age of Celebrity Worship, CBS News 3/3/06.) But who would classify most of these celebrities, especially the ones who seem to garner the most attention, as leaders? What in the world are they leaders of?
Another psychologist cited in the same article, Abby Aronowitz, Ph.D., states that the media is at least partially to blame for creating people who are extreme celebrity worshipers. "The whole Hollywood spin machine works together to create images that are impossible for any of us to live up to. They purposefully set us up to admire and even covet something we can never have. ... There are fortunes being made by turning fans into victims, and all it starts by creating that frenzy known as celebrity worship."
To me, both the DNA and the blame-the-media explanations reek of victim mentality thinking. We can't help it, it's in our DNA. Or, the media made us do it. Sure, we may be genetically programmed to follow the pack leader, but I again ask - why would our culture deem a celebrity to be a leader? And as for the media, that seems to be a chicken-and-the-egg question. Which came first, the media's coverage of celebrities or our societal quest for more information about the famous?
I think a much better explanation for our fascination with the lives of celebrities comes from a more spiritual psychological approach. Many people have a deep, unconscious, unfulfilled need in their lives - a need to feel better about themselves, a need somehow to feel superior - and celebrities help them answer that need.
Eckhart Tolle points to this idea in his book A New Earth when he states, "The absurd overvaluation of fame is just one of the many manifestations of egoic madness in our world."
People's unconscious egos thrive on feeling superior. How does celebrity worship allow you to feel superior?
* When celebrities and their public relations machines are at their best, celebrities look better than the rest of us, they sound better than the rest of us, and we believe they live much more glamorous and fulfilled lives than the rest of us. Just by knowing about them, we can try to imitate them and feel like we are superior humans too. For example: when I watched Ms. Hilton leave jail last night, I learned that now that she is free from her cell, she will be working very hard on launching her new perfume. Maybe if I buy her perfume, I can smell like Paris Hilton, and I will be a much better person than the rest of you poor slobs out there. My ego is thrilled with the possibility!
* When we closely follow the celebrities, then we can feel superior by having more information than our friends and neighbors. Our ego feels satisfied and superior when we have more knowledge about something than the next guy - even if that knowledge is virtually useless.
* We can also inflate our egos by picking celebrities apart. I am again always curious about the uproar over the Hollywood award ceremonies like the Oscars. Why do people spend hours watching celebrities parade into their seats, receive little statues, and then make uninspired thank-you speeches? Could it be because our egos get satisfaction out of knowing how the celebrities looked and out of criticizing the clothing choices we don't like, along with knowing who got the award (information)? Can you catch a hint of my own ego feeling superior when I suggest that they make uninspired thank-you speeches? I mean really, I could do a better job than they do!
* Lastly, we can feel superior when we watch celebrities fall from grace. With all they have - all their opportunities, all their wealth, and all their beauty - many celebrities just can't seem to get their lives together. And our egos love to watch them fall apart because our lives then seem that much better, that much more in control.
In a society where we seem to be increasingly disconnected from our true inner spirit and increasingly impressed by achievements in the outer world, the rise of celebrity worship makes complete sense. Until people start living more consciously and actually questioning why they feel a need to idolize celebrity images, the media will continue to help us satisfy our egos by giving us all the good, the bad, and the ugly that it can find for the rich and famous. And we will continue to suck it up like the spiritually-dry sponges we have become.
Judy Braley is an author, an attorney, and a parent of two. Her personal development blog with free articles and information on inspiration for your life can be found at GrowFromWithin.com. Copyright © 2007 Wherett Inc. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.
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