Newlyweds Sharon Papo (R) and Amber Weiss walk through City Hall after exchanging wedding vows on the first full day of legal same-sex marriages in San Francisco, California June 17, 2008. Gay marriage supporters see the move by the most populous U.S. state to allow same-sex weddings as an historic move long overdue, while opponents brand it a moral tragedy.[Agencies]
There is a revolution bubbling in Hollywood and it has Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears in its sights.
Good Hollywood girls are in and the not so well-behaved are on the outer.
Hollywood seems to be turning off its famous badgirls like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, and focusing on more wholesome starlets such as Emma Roberts.[Reuters]
As Hilton sits in jail, Lohan kicks back for another stint in rehab, Spears wears wigs to hide her bald head and Nicole Richie fights to stay out of prison, Hollywood studios are grooming a fresh-faced crop of starlets.
The good girls, led by squeaky clean 16-year-old Emma Roberts and 21-year-old Amanda Bynes, have not been arrested for drink driving and they avoided the trend of wearing mini-skirts without underpants.
They also are outspoken about avoiding the temptations that trap and then destroy other members of young Hollywood.
"I'm clean and I don't do any drugs or alcohol," Bynes, who stars alongside John Travolta, Christopher Walken and Michelle Pfeiffer in the new Hollywood remake of the Broadway musical, Hairspray, she said in Los Angeles recently.
"I feel like it's a choice I make.
"I don't need it."
Over the next few months the world will see Roberts, Bynes and other respectable and marketable young actresses, including Brittany Snow, Anna Sophia Robb and Abigail Breslin, headline major motion pictures.
The actresses will likely become role models for a generation of tweens who once looked up to Hilton, Lohan, Spears and Richie.
Roberts, with acting talent and a fine pedigree (she is the niece of Hollywood's biggest female name, Julia Roberts), is the star of Warner Bros' rebirth of the Nancy Drew detective film franchise.
She plays Drew, the vivacious, albeit nerdy, teen private eye.
"We're both alike," Roberts said.
"We're both determined, ambitious and curious, but she's much more of a neat freak than me."
Roberts may even be better behaved than Drew.
After seeing the recent Vanity Fair cover with Milie Cyrus, I think it’s time to remind Hollywood parents of appropriate 15 year old girl old behavior. It’s disturbing to think of any 15 year old minor being positioned as a sex symbol on a magazine distributed to adults. And it’s even more upsetting to imagine our eleven and twelve year old daughters aspiring for similar attention.
As I live my non-celebrated life in New York City, it’s easy for me to be outraged by the semi-nude photos. After all, I’ve never received a phone call from the powerful Vanity Fair Editor, Grayden Carter, requesting my child to grace his magazine cover as well as be photographed by the infamous Annie Lebowitz.
Milie is obviously NOT calling the shots here. Her parents who were part of the photoshoot and the magazine editors are making decisions on her behalf. Even if we assume that she is remarkably comfortable with her body, she has yet to come to terms with her sexuality. I’m sorry, no young girl can handle being a national sex symbol at only 15. Who is responsible? Her faded rock star parents or the greedy magazine editors? Both.
As Annie Lebowitz defensively stated that both Milie and she agreed on the cover pose after looking through fashion magazines for inspiration. Yet, I find it hard to believe that someone as creative as Lebowitz, she could find no other cover option (that was more age appropriate)! And Annie, as most parents would agree, teenagers typically do NOT make the wisest choices at this age and are often lured by what they (or you) think is “cool and hip” versus what is best for them. And to quote Milie, "...you can’t say no to Annie. She’s so cute. She gets this puppy-dog look and you’re like, O.K.”
This is precisely why teenagers still live at home— under their parent’s guidance!
Kudos to both:
Most parents today would agree that Hollywood is not an appropriate playground for 15 year olds. I find it deeply offensive that it is not enough to celebrate a young person’s talent, but we feel compelled to make young girls sex symbols before they are old enough to handle it.
This isn’t a morality play. This is about doing right by our children and raising them to be confident, successful adults. How many train wreck young celebrities do we need to create before we take responsibility for how they act as adults. Is our society not capable of celebrating young role models who are talented and beautiful that reflect the dignity and innocence of adolescence?
Is our society not capable of celebrating young role models who are talented and beautiful that reflect the dignity of adolescence? Hmm. I guess, this type of imagery doesn’t sell magazines and that is more important.