31 posts tagged “celebrities”
So basically, I'm watching her show for some reason right now and it opened with her talking about the work she's done with PETA and how the shoot she did for them was extra special because it featured her dog who recently passed away, blah blah blah. Now, I don't know about you, but I consider PETA to be somewhat of an extreme organization. I usually assume that celebrities who pose for PETA are not only vegetarians, but that they follow the organizations general standards. It's not like supporting a breast cancer foundation and smoking cigarettes or something, PETA's more hardcore than that.
So, why then, all of that considered, do you think they would show Kimora's assistant shopping for the new Simmons family pet at various breeders and pet stores? Including what I recognized to be a puppy mill-ish pet store in my very own neighborhood? How are you going to brag about how much you love animals and that you're willing to throw down for PETA and then buy a dog that it's breeders loved so much you had to fight for it to be yours? She fought to pay for a dog. In Los Angeles. Where the pet population is out of control to the point where you now legally need to have your pet neutered within 4 months of owning it unless you obtain a breeder's license.
What separated these two segments was a single commercial break. As if a reminder to watch The Soup was going to make me forget that I just watched Kimora, someone I am pretty sure wears fur and who DEFINITELY owns more leather Louis Vuitton luggage than anyone you'd ever meet, hawk for PETA on my TV three minutes earlier. I mean, I'm sure that when she was watching this in her bed after the producer sent the final cut over there wasn't even commercials. At no point did it click in her brain "Maybe we should at least fake it for TV that we got the dog at the shelter so we can send the right message to the millions of impressionable assholes watching this." That really shocks me, honestly.
So I decided to see if anyone else with a web log had picked up on this, and instead I found that this isn't even the first time she's been a blatant hypocrite. Although PETA supposedly stands by her as a spokesperson, she supposedly has used and is still using (although she is working on phasing it out) real fur in her Baby Phat clothes. That's not very PETA-y.
I can't say she's a bad person for using fur in her clothing or eating meat or where she gets her dogs, but I do think that she's doing herself and others a disservice by endorsing causes that can't publicly follow through with. Not even for an entire television episode. I thought had her shit together enough to not let that happen.
The meeting actually went really, really well. I was just still grumpy from my sleep.
But yeah, that Suzanne Sommers thing made an impact on me.
I am so sick today. I can't stop barfing. It's not even a hangover situation. I'm gonna make this quick and post pictures tomorrow:
Last night was awesome. The LA cast of Spring Awakening is vibrant, you guys. That's the word I'd use. Seriously talented and spunky kids and at least a few of them had pretty amazing comedic timing. It probably would have completely blown if it wasn't for the cast.
The after party took place in a parking lot Downtown across from the theater. There was a hamburger truck, free booze and pretty much half of young-to-middle aged Hollywood.
After I had about four glasses of wine, I strolled over to one of the dudes who was in the show and said "Hey. I'm Molly. I'm from the internet. I think you're great. Come with me." Then I dragged him over to Kyle from Defamer who was there with us and said "Kyle this is Andy. Andy, we're from the internet."
Then Andy started looking really uncomfortable, like I was going maybe kidnap and rape him. So then this goes down:
Me: OK, Andy. Mama Who Bore Me.
Andy: I wasn't in that number.
Me: Right, but would you not agree that that's kinda the theme song?
Andy: I guess.
Me: OK, you're great. Have a great night. Mama Who Bore Me.
