tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post1170661372679507433..comments2024-03-27T14:20:05.905-04:00Comments on Montclair SocioBlog: Good Girl, Naughty PictureJay Livingstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06652075579940313964noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post-21062563213203496792008-05-03T13:01:00.000-04:002008-05-03T13:01:00.000-04:00As the dad of a 7 year old girl I've watched more ...As the dad of a 7 year old girl I've watched more than my fair share of Hannah Montana (and truth be told, I've been known to enjoy the random episode). I'm still trying to understand the outrage over these photos. I haven't seen anything that's so over the top that I'd declare Ms. Cyrus off limits to the pre-pubescent media consumer in my house. Which isn't to say that I don't question the collective judgment of those who captured, produced, and published these photos... what were they thinking?<BR/><BR/>I think this whole episode illustrates a parasitic dimension to contemporary media. When my daughter gets up on a Saturday morning, she has several cable channels available to her, each running situational comedies focusing on the hijinks of adolescents. Some of these programs have been running long enough that the child actors matured through puberty on screen. Since these channels have 24 hours of space to fill, they run the full catalog of reruns almost monthly (I know... my daughter has learned how to Tivo). <BR/><BR/>The problem is that these kids grow up and lose the *cute* factor. By the time they reach 15 or 16, they're already fairly savvy about their business. Unless they reinvent themselves, they will be a washed up has been, two years before they're eligible to vote. <BR/><BR/>What to do? <BR/><BR/>I think they (and their handlers) decide to recreate themselves accentuating their new post-puberty assets. [Britney Spears performance at the Teen Choice awards about 7 years ago is a great example of this]. The alternative is to fade away to obscurity and go the path of Gary Coleman, Jerry Matthers, or *gasp* Danny Boniduci.<BR/><BR/>The True Hollywood Story, which runs 3 or 4 times a day, nearly every day, more than poignantly communicates to today's child celebrities of the fate that awaits them if they are unable to to make this transition. That seems to me to be a pretty powerful motivator.Coreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00119612449610307692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post-80974937591908296702008-05-02T09:46:00.000-04:002008-05-02T09:46:00.000-04:00I wonder if this was an oil painting of Cyrus crea...I wonder if this was an oil painting of Cyrus created by a master, would it then be considered "fine art" ?<BR/><BR/><BR/>(reminds me of the oil painting by John Collier, Lady Godiva<BR/><BR/>http://clicks.robertgenn.com/images/featured_artist/john_collier/collier-godiva.jpgSARAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16709202258084578997noreply@blogger.com