We're no fan of the celebutante. We find drunk, rich sorority-ish girls pretty boring. Still, the coverage of their downfall - Nicole Richie is following Paris Hilton to jail and now Lindsay Lohan, too, has been charged with DUI - is starting to make the arrests seem like an elaborate publicity stunt for a forthcoming remake of Caged Heat. It's also starting to seriously creep us out.Case in point: the AP's "No Glamour for Nicole in Jail," which begins: "For Nicole Richie, four days in jail will be an intermission in her glamorous lifestyle: No miniskirts, no stiletto heels and no time off for good behavior."
Such gleeful remarks (which you never see about rich male celebrities who get arrested) bespeak a desire to see haughty girls degraded, just like Elisha Cuthbert in Captivity. And we can't help but think there's something sort of sick about how excited everyone gets when party girls suffer.
Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 2)
1. I personally don't want to see these girls rot in jail but I do feel they need a fair punishment for their crimes that are comparable to non-celebrities. Do many young people drink? Of course they do. I did it even when I was underage but I had enough sense to NOT DRIVE DRUNK! I really feel once you become a certain age that you can no longer blame your parents for your behavior. In the case of these 3 girls I feel the parents have contributed to their destructive behavior, though.
I once heard someone say that even bad publicity is good publicity but honestly they should realize that self destructive behavior is a no win situation for them.
E at 4:32PM on Jul 30th 2007
2. No, I don't think "we" (anyone) get "excited", as the writer suggests, when these airheaded, doofus actors and actresses get sent to the slammer. I just think we feel that Blind Justice has had her sight restored...at least momentarily.
Everyone, except acne-challenged teenyboppers and feckless chips-and-dips TV sloths without a life or one scintilla of gray matter, is pretty damned sick of Hollywood fools getting away with murder and only receiving a slap on the wrist.
Scofflaws, addicts and drunks ALL belong behind bars --- no exceptions. And while we're incarcerating these insignificant nimnulls, let's put the Los Angeles County sheriff. Lee Baca, right in there with them. He is a spineless, self-important toady to the stars.
Hello? Is that you, Hollywood? Time for a reality check, kids.
Curmudgeon at 4:46PM on Jul 30th 2007
3. We want them in jail so they can get off our TVs. Why does the media keep showing them? They haven't accomplished anything in life, they are just a spectacle, a train wreck for the eyes. Is there no better news than what Paris Hilton did yesterday? Are we that shallow of a country?
I want them in jail so I don't have to hear the unfortunate answers to these questions.
Carnivore 69 at 5:07PM on Jul 30th 2007
4. Paris, Nicole, Lindsay, can only function on alcohol & drugs. These are our daughters role models for 2007? The high pricesses of USA? And we are egging on the media by gauking at these accidents burning up the airwaves. These children have not grown up enough to be responsible for their actions. Maybe the lightbulb will go on in time out (jail).
birgittag1 at 6:53PM on Jul 30th 2007
5. our lives have become so boring that we find this amusing what a sad state of affairs case in point you are reading this get a life and then tell me what it is so i can get one too
gangrenus at 7:17PM on Jul 30th 2007
6. GIVE THEM ALL THE CHAIR!!!
KingFella at 7:22PM on Jul 30th 2007
7. If Lindsey is doing this for publicity on the grounds that any publicity is good publicity - her movie tanked. Dispells that theory. No one wants to work with her anymore - so, she's done some damage to a career aborning. Paris didn't have to worry so much since her movie, CD, et. al weren't career worthy to begin with. Who's Nicole besides a one show(thanks to Paris)flop who's the whore daughter of Lionel Richie? Paris is disinherited. Nicole is doing her time and Lindsey will pay much more dearly than Paris because the claustrophobic, AADD card has already been played. Plus, Lindsey told us herself why she's disliked:"I'm a celebrity and can do whatever the 'F' I want." Well, while Mr.&Mrs. J.Q.Public needs to abide by the laws she's broken in a flourish of lieing - fly in your face - 'I never liked any of my black fans anyway' walking through crowds as though the B.O. she smelled wasn't coming from her own delusional stank celebrity self. "Herbie Goes to Jail" might be the next and only movie she may ever do again. I hope she gets a judge like Paris' who knows there is no excuse for taking other people's lives and putting them in danger from drug abuse, a shitty attitude with a heavy helping of disconnect from the lack of humility for those who've put her where she is today. Where showing up to work in a movie if the spirit so moves them (she's no Marilyn or Taylor)- when more deserved and harder working actors and actresses have maturity, natural and learned craft who don't think Jane, Gena, and Olympia should move their lives around for her "exhaustions". It is a rare talent that can launch and land successfully a comeback even when it's deserved and has with it a body of work on their resume. She had her shot and couldn't handle it. Grateful is not a concept learned at the end of a coke spoon. Blaming things on parents or the Industry doesn't cut it when you inflict your drug use on those around you playing one color Roulette and innocents in public - then blame them for it. If anyone plays the "Cry for Help" card in this instance of debauchery on wheels (male celebrities DO go to jail it's just they don't carry on or announce it to the World in the manner of the "Ladies" mentioned in this Blog) Glen, Kris, Tommy, Mel, Axle, Ron, V.Halen, Sanborra, et.al.. So? Why do we want these "ladies" in jail? Because it was handed to them - they took it - then instead of paying a price someone comes along picks up their mess, puts it all back together nice and neat for them and still they throw it away again when we all know someone who could use even just one of the breaks in life they take so for granted and piss all over the people who keep bending over while the leeches and sharks circle around waiting for these peurile and dangerous multi-chance risk takers tire of those who earnestly care and let the sharks in to become the enablers they are.
Johyn at 7:38PM on Jul 30th 2007
8. They have a choice of being behind bars or in bars. Apparently they have decided.
Ray at 7:58PM on Jul 30th 2007
9. Because they run down people in their over-priced sports cars. That's why.
lu at 8:00PM on Jul 30th 2007
10. No child I know looks to these girls as role models. Also, we (the public) don't care about their personal lives....THE MEDIA SHOULD BE REPORTING TRULY NEWSWORTHY STORIES. they are the ones shoving this crap down our throats.
wedontcare at 8:13PM on Jul 30th 2007
11. I don't wish any bad on anyone but if this was you or I we'd be in jail. You just can't get away with things like that. If they start cracking the whip on these celebs that want to get out of control maybe they'll learn to behave.
Vee at 9:05PM on Jul 30th 2007
12. it*s time the haves get the same punishment that the havenots get.
highpockets at 9:37PM on Jul 30th 2007
13. With the limelight of celebrity comes close lifestyle scrutiny; it is the price of fame. Not only did each of them ask for it, they demanded it by their actions. Even then, their fame and movie exposure is enhanced by the nauseous and exessive press coverage. Why, we should ask, are the press such pussy groupies? Are they any better?
BeteNoir at 9:58PM on Jul 30th 2007
14. Of course people need to be held accountable for their actions. However, in the case of many of these celebrities, it is clear that the police can't wait to make "an example" of them, with the idiot press salivating for details and photos. Many of these celebrities have a genuine lack of privacy in their lives, and any moron with a camera tries to get a photo of them in some compromising situation and then sell it for big bucks. Some of them have genuine alcohol and drug problems, but with their lives laid bare for all to see, they are pressured to be "cured" in a week, to help satisfy the press. I wish that those wealthy celebrities with an addiction problem, would at least hire themselves a driver. Many could afford it, and then their drinking would be no ones business but their own. To the press and the gossip mongers: get a life!
LJ at 10:02PM on Jul 30th 2007
15. B/C THESE WHITE RICH HOES THINK THRY ABOUT THE LAW!
christina brown at 10:03PM on Jul 30th 2007