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POPSThe Image of Helplessness
More from the piece: Most American women are becoming ever more comfortable with their capabilities as they break into new professional roles, learn how to do electrical wiring or automobile maintenance, tackle life insurance, IRAs and tax planning on behalf of the many configurations of family they are nurturing, or even put their lives on the line as warriors in Iraq. They are surprising themselves and the culture every day by not falling apart as they take on tasks that the prefeminist world was sure would lead them to collapse in a heap, needing smelling salts. Yet at the same time, the culture seems increasingly obsessed with showcasing images of glamorous young women who are falling apart -- sometimes seriously, even fatally. For a long time, hotel heiress Paris Hilton seemed reasonably cool-headed, if amoral, in the limelight. But cool-headed isn't trendy, so she managed to get herself arrested for drunk driving, broke her probation, went off to jail, was released
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POPSA comment about Hilton in jail I couldn't care less about Hilton in jail - she can die there for all it matters to me - but I thought this comment on a piece in The Times was hilarious! Poor Laurence is so misguided!
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POPSThe champagne overdraft - why do people get into debt for 'celebrity' lifestyles? More from the piece: Clubs like Movida, Pangaea and Boujis have boasted celebrity customers such as Kylie Minogue, Sarah Harding, Lady Victoria Harvey, Beyonce, Jay-Z and even Prince Harry. But stand in an "exclusive" club early in the night and it's confusing. There are groups of girls sitting and chatting, the bar looks empty, the champagne buckets are devoid of fizz. But as time goes on a couple of celebrities stroll in, groups of men are led to tables and the gleaming buckets are soon replete with bubbly. Suddenly, the girls who have been waiting, drinkless on the sidelines, gravitate like vultures to men who've paid £600 or more for a table. Some head for the booths that might require a spend of £1,500-£3,000. Each partying table of two or three men can be surrounded by 10 women drinking champagne. It's perhaps a little taste of why some might stretch their budgets to be the centre of attention.
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