Kim Kardashian: Icon For Gossip-Addicted, Tabloid-Reading Young Girls

Lawrence Auster at the View From the Right (VFR) recently had a post on one of pop culture's (most) over-rated personalities: Kim Kardashian of the infamous Kardashian family. This loud and irritating family gains its fame by doing nothing other than appear at convenient spots to get their photos taken.

Actually, Kardashian had a famous father (or semi-famous). Robert Kardashian was the lawyer who represented O.J. Simpson. But, Kim wasn't satisfied with the luxurious life that case provided for them. She wanted to be famous also. She did a "sex tape" of her intimate activities with her then-boyfriend, a second-rate R&B singer named Ray J. The tape was mysteriously "leaked" to the public, and Kardashian is considered to be the one who released it.

Since then, Kim Kardashian and her brood of sisters have been the main characters in their own "reality show" Keeping Up With the Kardashians, which is still going strong.

There is no mystery for its popularity. It appeals to the gossip-addicted, tabloid-reading young girls of our era. The Kardashian sisters - there are three sisters and two half-sisters - spend their days shopping in designer stores, talking about their boyfriends, fighting with each other, and traveling around various large cities like New York and Miami. Their astute business-minded mother, Kris Jenner, runs the show.

Kim Kardashian, for some reason, is the "star" of the show. Well, she is the least vicious of the group, and better looking. Her sisters spend their days gossiping and backstabbing everyone, and Kim is regularly the brunt of their mean jokes. I think they envy her better looks. But, she is nonetheless as mediocre as them. Her mediocrity was put on display when she went on Dancing With the Stars a few years ago. She had none of the supportive cushioning of her mother, telling her how great she is. Her self-conscious performance earned her the scorn of the judges, and of course the audience, which voted her out early in the show. She was even worse than Bristol Palin.

I should mention that her step-father is Bruce Jenner, an aging athlete who won a gold medal at the 1976 Olympics. He is widely believed to have had plastic surgery on his face. Kris Jenner certainly knows how to catch them!

This businesswoman/whoremonger of a mother manages her children's lives, both as pop culture personalities and as individuals. She lets them parade around on television, using uncouth language and performing coarse acts, for all the world to see. The financial gains must be hugely worth all this.

Kim Kardashian has to "keep up" with being a Kardashian, and has clearly had work done on her face. This is what Lawrence Auster observed on his post:

I only became consciously aware of the person named Kim Kardashian about a year ago, at the time of her "marriage" (remember her marriage?) and its instant break-up. The thing that most struck me about her was her amazing hour-glass figure, so extreme it seemed like something out of ancient myth, and the inevitable question, was it real? Also her face seemed too smooth to be real. Then, last April or May, I saw this photo of her at the Daily Mail, was struck again by the astounding hourglass figure and wondered if it was real.

Below are the photos he posted to compare the "before and after" shots of Kim, after she's had her face done:



I sent an email to VFR saying:

I had an article of Kim Kardashian in my files, and I was going to do just what you did.

One of the points I was going to make is that she is getting all sleeked out, like you say, but she still wants to follow something of the contemporary pop culture.

It is the black-centric obsession of many non-black pop stars.

For example, Kardashian keeps getting married to, and divorcing, black, or mulatto, men.

I think, related to this, is her huge behind, which I think she has had surgically enhanced.

So, today's young women are a mish-mash of their designs, picking up from what they think are the reigning images and groups.

Below are the shots which show Kim all "sleeked out" and with her behind. I think that she does "enhance" her behind, but possibly through exercise and of course by the types of clothes she wears.


I also wrote:

But, one thing that got me to plan a post on Kim Kardashian was her "Asiatic" eyes. I kept thinking it must be her Armenian/Asian background - her father is Armenian. I think you had it figured out that it is the cosmetic surgery, which gives a "cat eye" look!

But, I'm sure if I looked at past photos, as I planned to do, I would have come across her younger look.

Above, comparing Kim with her "cat eye" in 2012, common after effect in plastic surgery, with a photo taken in 2006, with normal eyes.

As a young girl, and in 2011

As a young girl with her father Robert Kardashian

Below is a photo of Kim in a mermaid costume for this Halloween, where she has a blonde wig.


I write to VFR about this image:

Here she is in a blonde wig for Halloween with her black "captain" boyfriend.

Mermaids don't have to be blonde.

Even the popular cartoon mermaid in The Little Mermaid was a red head.

Blonde Mermaid Kim with her Black Captain Kanye

Star of Dancing With the Stars Has Something in Common With Mitt Romney

Kelly Monaco's Tango Dress, for Dancing With the Stars

Dancing With The Stars is the only variety show I watch. It really is a show about perseverance, talent and the ability to learn something new. The "Stars" who come on are semi-forgotten ones, whose participation in the show allows them a second (or third) comeback. Some get sitcom, movie or commercial deals after they're done with the show. They work hard over several months, putting their daily commitments on hold, to almost perfect some of their dances.

Of course, the real stars are the professional dancers. The best of the all is a Mormon kid, Derek Hough, who can do anything from ballroom classics like the waltz and the tango, to classic popular dances like the foxtrot and the quickstep. He would even do hip hop (he has, once ) if he had to. His sister, Julianne Hough, is also as good as her brother.

Dancing With The Stars' Main Star Derek Hough

Besides being entertaining, the show also encourages ordinary viewers to take on ballroom dancing. Some of the instructors have started their own ballroom dancing schools.

What a breath of fresh air from all those shows with their narcissistic characters and dark and grim storylines.

Good Riddance, One Less Homosexual on TV

Gloria Vanderbilt, with her son Anderson Cooper.
She "supports" her son's homosexuality,
according to the TV interview on his (now-canned)
day time show, but her smile and suggests
discomfort at his public proclamation.

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The creepy Ellen Degenerate continues to do well with TV ratings, but the creepier Anderson Cooper has had his daytime show canned. About time too. I've only watched his show once, when he brought on his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt to his show. Gloria Vanderbilt was the famous heiress to her father's, Reginald Vanderbilt's, fortunes. She went through bitter child custody battles between her mother and her paternal grandmother over her five-million-dollar trust fund from her father when he died when she was barely two years old. Her aunt won, under whose care Vanderbilt lived during her childhood years. Once an adult, she formed her own independent life as a fashion designer and painter.

Anderson Cooper is her son with her fourth husband Wyatt Cooper. He died when Cooper was a young child. Vanderbilt's other son with Cooper committed suicide at age twenty-three. Anderson Cooper was twenty-one then.

Anderson Cooper is another of those "out" homosexuals. This means that he loudly, regularly and "proudly" proclaims his sin.

I've written about Cooper here, where I say:

Recently, the pathetic CNN "reporter" Anderson Cooper, with his adolescent giggle and "danger zone" reporting, melodramatically announced: "The fact is, I am gay." Who didn't know that? He never made a secret of his "orientation," talking about his boyfriend like a giddy girl. I think this "outing" is his paranoia, where he can sense the negative mood against homosexuals, and like a spoilt and stubborn adolescent (the mental state of all homosexuals?) insists that "this is what I am."

The useless Main Stream Media (via the Daily Mail) puts its arm around his shoulder with:

Cooper's sexuality has long been an open secret in TV circles, but for him to state it publicly is a brave and bold move.

What chutzpah he has!

Other useless "journalists" are saying that he "came out" for the ratings. Why would he do that? It will probably bring down his ratings, since ordinary people are not sympathetic to open homosexuals, unless they are the semi-funny sitcom actors on Will and Grace (and it is not "the gays" who make that show but the two ditzy straight women Grace and Karen, with their perennial gaffes).

Comedians Grace and Karen from Will and Grace

Ellen Degenerate might be able to charm some people (straight women, strangely) with her adolescent humor, but Cooper's dry, self-indulgent reporting clearly didn't win him any day-time fans.

Cooper and his boyfriend

The Envy in the World

Tiberge at GalliaWatch shares my views on the part of the reason why the Dominican nanny murdered the Krimm children. She writes:

At VFR there is a shocking story from Manhattan's Upper West Side, analyzed with perceptive comments from readers. They speak of demonic forces at work in the world, of the envy of backward people for those more affluent and successful than they, of the sheer folly of allowing Third-World individuals with a totally different and atavistic mentality to care for wealthy American children.

The link for "story" leads to the View From the Right and Lawrence Auster's article "Manhattan mother returns home to find two of her children stabbed to death by the nanny"

Some Sun in the Middle of a Hurricane

Below is a screenshot of the hurricane trajectory from MyFoxHurricane.com at around 10:20 am this morning.


And here is a little bit of sunshine:


Diane von Furstenberg has a new perfume out. She doesn't have a large repertoire. She's had only two hits: with Volcan in 1979 and Tatiana in 1981. She came back to to perfume design in 2003 with variations on her name: D in 2003, Diane in 2011, Love Diane in 2012, and now Sunny Diane also in 2012.

Nonetheless, Sunny is charming, light and, well, sunny. Winter is coming, and a bit of sunshine is always welcome.

The notes for Sunny Diane are:

Mandarine Orange, Frangipani^*, Woodsy notes, Musk, Violet, Sea Water and Driftwood

According to Fragrantica, frangipani is:

Soft, fruity, peachy, and creamy on the canvas of the soft gardenia-like aroma.

Fragrantica's "odor profile" describes Sea Water as:

captured via highly sophisticated synthetic components of organic chemistry. A "marine" note.

The "odore profile for Driftwood is:

A watery, slightly musty but very light note that is evocative of driftwood and vast expanses of water. Beautifully rendered in Preparation Parfumee by Andree Putman.

These last two are clearly synthetic scents, but Sunny Diane's perfume designer clearly came up with something that does evoke sunny, breezy, beeches with the warm smell of sand and wet wood, and the fruity floral scent of a tropical flower.

Her perfume designer is Aurélien Guichard.


Here is part of an interview on his choice of career:

Interviewer: What led you to become a perfumer?:
AG: I am from ...Grasse..., in the south of France. Growing up with a famous perfumer father and grandparents who were jasmine and rose producers, it was difficult not to be influenced. The less obvious reason is my mother. She is a sculptor. She highly contributed also in my need to do a creative job. This job - or passion - is not just about mixing ingredients, it is about creating scents with personal ideas that you truly believe in.

Guichard has a short list of perfumes. I have tried a few on the list here, and none stand out. Perhaps he's hit the jackpot with his mild, but refreshing Sunny Diane.
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Frangrantica describes the a dark side of the flower:

In some countries in Far East white fragrant flowers have a quite dark reputation: Symbolizing death, they are common on cemeteries, and their fragrance in the night is one of the signs of an approaching vampire.

And from this site:

The Chinese turn their noses up at the frangipani, referring to it as ‘the graveyard flower’ due to its proliferation in cemeteries across Asia.

So what's new about the perennially superstitious Chinese? These are people who won't build houses in certain directions because of "bad luck." Even "acculturated" Western-born Chinese and their offspring cannot live without their daily dose of vodoo.

Entertainment in the Age of Decadence

Singers and Dancers on the Lawrence Welk Show

It is impossible to find truly entertaining entertainment on television. My local PBS station airs one that I tune to. It is the Lawrence Welk Show, which:

...started in 1951 as a local program on KTLA-TV in Los Angeles. The original show was broadcast from the since-demolished Aragon Ballroom at Venice Beach. The show made its national TV debut on July 2, 1955, and was produced at the Hollywood Palladium for 23 of its 27 years on the air. The only seasons not taped there were 1965–66, 1976–77 at the Hollywood Palace and CBS Television City from 1977 to 1979.

The show aired on ABC until 1971. When the show was canceled by the head of programming there, Welk formed his own production company and continued airing the show, on independent stations and, often during non-prime time, also on some of the ABC affiliates on which he had previously appeared as well as some stations affiliated with other networks. The syndicated version of the program aired from 1971 to 1982.

The show is a variety show of singing, dancing and orchestral music. All the singers have beautiful voices, and the dances are well-choreographed variations on traditional dances like the Polka or the Waltz, or numbers from Broadway show hits.

Lawrence Welk is the creator, presenter, and conductor of the show. His biography at Wikipedia says that he was born in North Dakota, "in the German-speaking community of Strasburg." He still has a German accent, which he later says was part of his act for the show, although I don't believe that. Despite this accent, he speaks perfect English with all the idioms and colloquialism of a native speaker. Part of his charm is his serious demeanor, which he sometimes breaks with a brief smile.

Quick Conversion: Eternal Commitment

Islam-convert Heather Matthews with her two daughters by her ex-husband,
who converted to Islam before her.

It took Heather Matthews two months to go from the breast-exposing vacationer in a Spanish beach to the headscarf wearing dedicated mother.

How did this happen?

Well, she started studying Islam about a year ago to convince her ex-husband, who had converted to Islam, that it was all wrong.

The clincher seems to be her trip to the hedonistic beach in Ibiza, Spain. She went there and posed almost topless, but came back with a hijab covering her.

It never occurred to her that perhaps there is something in between. Turning over a new leaf doesn't mean latching on to the misogynistic Islam. There are other options!

But the bereft Heather had to fill her empty soul with something, and Islam fit the bill.

So what is the moral of the story: Don't go on vacation to Ibiza? Don't divorce? Don't read the Koran?

No. Why not something more moderate like not leaving one's soul so empty that anything with some promise of soothing it becomes the candidate?

Says the new convert Ms. Matthews:

People are probably thinking "Oh, it is just another one of Heather’s fads". It isn’t. It is what I’ve been searching for during the times I’ve been filling my life with instant gratification.

Before: The Beach Girl........................After: Allah's Servant

I hate to say this, but the new Matthews actually does look happier. Her smile is broader, her eyes are less guarded, her skin no longer has the burnt tan, and her cheeks are rosy. She does have make-up on, but not the exaggerated mascara or the dark eye-shadow from her beach-girl days. Her eyebrows are clearly penciled in, but that could be because she lost most of the hair from over-plucking, as her "before" photo shows. She even looks like she's gained some healthy weight.

I don't doubt that Muslims are happy. And hijabed women are not constrained. Their religions gives them order and security. They can smile broadly behind their head scarves because they are protected. Unlike the young vacationers in hedonistic beaches, they are told not to go there, never to expose their skin beyond their face and hands, avoid alchol and other drugs like the devil, and marry and have children. And above all, follow the Koran not just to fill them up spiritually, but to show them their daily paths.

Who doesn't want that, after the chaos of modern life?

And the Gays Keep Marching On

Tommy Thompson shaking the hand of Tammy Baldwin

It is amazing that high level government officials are called (or allow themselves to be called) by infantile nicknames like Tommy and Tammy. I went to both Tommy Thompson's and Tammy Baldwin's official sites - Thompson's here, Baldwin's here - and indeed that is how they present themselves. I went to Wikipedia if I could find their full names, and indeed those are their actual given names.

Thompson does have a better second name, George, which he should have started using as soon as he became an adult, or got started with his political career, which was as far back as 1966.

Tammy Baldwin's name giving is exactly the same. Her second name is a much more acceptable Suzanne. She is sixteen years younger than Thomson, and was born during that sixties era, so her parents might have thought such an informal name was hip. Further information on her biography shows that she was raised by her grandparents (after her parents split?). Not to excuse her present life choices, but it is becoming clearer and clearer that healthy, intact families produce, healthy intact children, who then produce healthy intact societies.

Perhaps it is an American tradition to give their children more elaborate second names. President Kennedy was John Fitzgerald, but John is hardly a nickname, and he wasn't called Johnnie Kennedy. President Reagan was Ronald Wilson, and no-one called him Ronnie Reagan.

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In today's contaminated society, homosexuals get treated with the utmost decorum. In the above photo-op, former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thomson is forced to be civil, and shake the hand of "openly gay" lesbian Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin.

There was a time in pretty recent history (like a couple of year ago) when homosexual politicians weren't called "openly gay."

In the more remote, dinosauric times, (say about fifty years ago) not only could they never be "openly gay," but any hint of "gayness" would have had them shuttled off to the next political train going to Obsoletedom.

We have come a long way.

Democrat Tammy Baldwin is running for the Wisconsin Senate as an "openly gay" candidate. She's in an extremely close race with Republican Tommy Thompson.

Wisconsin is one of those "swing states" which could determine the presidential elections. And it is one of the three swing states where the candidates are tied.

Is Obama going to win because Wisconsin voters decided to give homosexual "equality" a chance?

Everywoman Tammy Baldwin

The above photo is from a facebook post which says: "The first women senators from their state." Tammy clearly took special measures to look "feminine" in order to convince her constituents that she is a normal candidate.


Homosexuals are getting harder and harder to identify. It is of course part of their "movement" to be like anyone else in society, meaning to look straight. Woman look feminine, and men look normal. No butches or femmes for these members of society.

The Baldwin/Azar Domestic Partnership
now in Splitsville

Above is a photo of Baldwin and her ex "domestic partner" Lauren Azar in 2010. Both look pretty normal. But on closer inspection and with a discerning eye, I would call them and odd couple, and would label them as lesbians. There's something harried about Baldwin, and something over-cocky abut Azar. Neither have any femininity.

What would homosexuals call a split from a "domestic partnership"? Not divorce, surely! They're going to have to come up with a better word.

Apparently, Tammy has a new "girlfriend" although I cannot find any photos of them in domestic bliss.

Shooting and Capturing

The bloggers at My Upper West tell us about the daily goings on in their part of New York City.

The photo above is of the Bow Bridge in Central Park taken "a few days ago" by Karen. For some reason, these diligent bloggers don't credit fully the photographer, who remains Karen.

I presume she's an amateur photographer, perhaps in some design field. The shot is really beautiful. Of course, New York does provide such beautiful, camera-ready shots regularly, but one has to be able to see them and capture them on camera (or a painting, etc.). Looking and admiring is one thing, composing and shooting is another.

I'm almost embarrassed to re-post my Road to New York shot, and here it is. But, to explain my shot a little better, I saw the undulating hills, the spurts of color, the grey dramatic sky with a streak of pale blue, and the floating clouds. The farm buildings in the hills and the tall metal poles show us that there is some kind of life (civilization) nestled within these hills.

Road to New York, September 2009
[Photo by KPA]

New York City Cop: Everything in Stride

Tom Selleck plays New York City police commisssioner
Frank Reagan. He leads a clan of Reaganites, all of whom are
involved in some capacity in the New York's crime.

Tom Selleck is the star of the police drama Blue Bloods. He is the New York City Police Commissioner, and the long suffering patriarch of an Irish Catholic family, all of whom are part of New York City's crime brigade, either as cops or as lawyers.


The acting is really good, and the stories are interesting to watch. Tom Selleck's character, Frank Reagan, shows the true grit he has to face in the liberal land that he inhabits, both in the TV show and in the reality (of the writers and directors) of the show. Mostly he comes out with flying colors.

From what I can find out about Selleck's political views, he is a registered as an Independent according to some sites, while others list him as a Republican. I am sure his non-Democratic (non-liberal) affiliations add to the role he plays, especially since he is a cop who has to deal with life and death issues (a bullet in a body is not negotiable).

This week, the show was titled "Risk and Reward" where he successfully dealt with an Islamic terrorist group from Malasia which covers its tracks by dealing drugs. I wondered why they didn't use the more likely Middle East sources, but I think this was a clever tactic at avoiding a "hot" issue with the liberal TV land, and with the viewers, but providing a quite credible non-Arab source of current jihadists.

Reagan has to deal with a smart-aleck detective son Danny played by Donnie Wahlberg, who grew up in a rough Boston neighborhood and had a few brushes with the law, so he knows what he's talking about. His other son. Jamie Reagan, is as equally stubborn but somewhat quieter, and who is a police officer. His lawyer Erin is a lawyer. As police commissioner, Selleck's character is often professionally in conflict with his children's professions.

Danny's partner in crime, the beautiful Jennifer Esposito, was supposed to leave the show because of health problems. I'm glad she's resolved the issue, and will be back. She's a good side-kick to the impetuous Danny, reining him in when he starts to act as though he's beyond the law.

Jennifer Esposito plays Danny's detective
partner Jackie Curatola


Family dinner on Sundays at the Brooklyn Reagan house is a chance for the Reagan clan to give the patriarch a hard time, who takes it all with (New York cop) stride.

Reagan's Brooklyn home.

Road to New York

Road to New York, September 2009
[Photo by KPA]

This is a view from the window of my bus while I was traveling to New York early Fall in 2009 to attend events organized around the Danish cartoonist Danish cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard.

The trees were a mixture of summer greens, with a few impatient ones turning into the yellows and reds. There were also pine trees, which added to the greenery.


This is the kind of view there was at the apartment where the meeting was held.

Not Able to Look People in the Eye

Larry Auster at View From the Right recently posted comments he'd received about the third Presidential debate. I sent my comments and observations about the debate. Here's what I wrote:

I think Obama looked a little manic last night. I’ve written about “a hard glint in his eyes.”

But I agree, despite his loss of weight and his gray hair, he looked stronger than Romney, who missed the presidential gravitas with his odd smile.

Here’s a pretty good side-by-side from the debate of Obama’s glare and Romney’s attempt at strength.

As in your post, I agree with you that Obama did not look “small or angry.” But, I don’t think his demeanor suggests a leader of the First World. He might be a leader, but I don’t think for Americans.

Larry Auster emailed me and made this comment:

[T]hat was a very insightful point, that he looks like a leader, but not an American leader.

Why? The confident, charismatic look in his wide-apart eyes was not in keeping with the American system. There was too much of "personal" power in it.

I reply:

I have spent some time looking at photos of leaders, in recent years.

One thing that intrigued me was the comparison between Haile Selassie, and the vicious dictator who "replaced" him Mengistu Haile Mariam.

Here is a photo of Haile Selassie
He looks stern, but compassionate.

Here is a photo of Haile Mariam:
He looks reasonably intelligent, but manic
(By the way, it was very hard to find a photo of him looking directly at the camera.)

Here is another one of him with a confident, almost charismatic, look.

He came on because leftist anti-Ethiopians (anti-traditionalists) decided to follow a liberal/socialist route for "equality."

Rather than bring on equality, Haile Mariam was actually the most vicious of all, indiscriminate in his destruction.

And these many years later, and after all that destruction, these leftists, equality-preaching leftists, still remain leftist, which shows the strength of their belief. Of course, they have almost all left the country which the harshness of their ideology destroyed, and are in safe havens in America and Canada. And, they are the ones who vote for Obama.

I think Obama has that same look as Mengistu Haile Mariam, and that same agenda.

I think the emperors in Ethiopia (I should be specify, as always, and say the Amhara emperors of Ethiopia) were true leaders, without that personal mania. I think it is because they ruled through Christianity. That gave them a certain humility. The religion and the leadership were intertwined. The religion, above all, was a controlling factor both for emperors and ordinary people, to live with humility. For leaders to lead through God, and for people to be led through God, and his leaders.

Of course it is the Amhara elite, the inheriting leaders of the country, who were infused with leftism and who rejected of true Christianity, who brought the demise of Haile Selassie. And like I said, they were quick to depart when the "revolution" didn't turn out as planned.

So, I think, ordinary Americans (even Mormons like Romney) have a certain humility about leadership because of the American tradition of caution towards elitism and the acceptance of ordinariness in America. So, it is not only Christianity that encourages such humility. This caution in the American tradition towards elitism is perhaps the important controlling factor to prevent dogmatic leaders.

Obama comes from a frightening elitism, or feeling of entitlement (because he's black? Because he's at war with whites? Because he wants to set the "racist" history right?" Because he doesn't trust, or believe in, ordinary Americans, i.e. whites?). But, I think ordinary Americans are catching on.

Here's an article at the Weekly Standard (via the indispensable Drudge Report) describing Obama's meeting with Charles Woods, father of Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods who was killed in the American consulate in Benghazi. Woods talks about Obama's inability to look him in the eye.

Woods says:

"When [Obama] came over to our little area" at Andrew Air Force Base, says Woods, "he kind of just mumbled, you know, 'I’m sorry.' His face was looking at me, but his eyes were looking over my shoulder like he could not look me in the eye. And it was not a sincere, 'I’m really sorry, you know, that your son died,' but it was totally insincere, more of whining type, 'I'm sorry.'"

Woods says that shaking President Obama’s hands at his son's memorial service was "like shaking hands with a dead fish."

"It just didn’t feel right," he says of his encounter with the commander in chief. "And now that it’s coming out that apparently the White House situation room was watching our people die in real time, as this was happening,” Woods says, he wants answers on what happened—and why there was no apparent effort to save his son’s life.

Woods says about his meeting with Hillary:

"Well, this is what Hillary did," Woods continues. "She came over and, you know, did the same thing—separately came over and talked with me. I gave her a hug, shook her hand. And she did not appear to be one bit sincere—at all. And you know, she mentioned that the thing about, we’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video. That was the first time I had even heard about anything like that."

Modern Women and Their Inspirations

I've recently posted two blogs on the dead hearts of modern women.

Two actresses who are in films that are currently in the cinemas both said that they chose these films because they were inspired by the horrors of the story and the characters.

Helen Hunt says about the film The Sessions:

I read the script for this beautiful movie and I didn't realize what a great part it was at first, I just knew that the story was great.

Then I met the woman that I play, who is still working as a sex surrogate and she has devoted her life to helping men and women realize their sexual potential in a positive, non-judgmental, non-shamey kind of way. I just couldn't believe it existed in real life, or that I would get to embody it for a few months.

And Helena Bonham Carter says about Great Expectations:

"I like sick people and [Miss Havisham from Great Expectations] is really, really sick. I mean pathologically barking...So I love any kind of sickness, and that sort of inspires me.

Clueless Women Gyrating With Ellen Degenerate: These Are the Voters in the Next Election

Stills from the October 24, 2012 Ellen Degeneres show.

Lesbian Ellen Degenerate came on her show on Wednesday dressed like a prepubescent school boy, and her audience of women just loved it. She does her daily "I'm going to dance" bit, but yesterday's was even more revealing because of her get up. The middle-aged, overweight women gyrated along with her, letting it all hang out. I kept thinking: "These are the women who are going to be voting in the next election!" It was disgusting to watch.

Her show is reasonably popular. It ranked third with the pompous Dr. Phil for daytime talk shows for the week ending October 14, 2012. Here is a look further back in May 2012, where she holds a solid first, tie again with Dr. Phil and the brainless Live With Kelly and Michael (I've blogged about that show here).

I tuned into yesterday's Ellen Degenerate Show to see what Helen Hunt, who was on the show, had to say about her new film The Sessions, a film about a paralyzed man who hires a "sex surrogate." I blogged on Hunt and the film here. Hunt repeatedly tells Ellen Degenerate that she is not playing a prostitute, but someone who performs a kindly service to an invalid.

Her expression throughout the interview was subdued and glum, except when Ellen Degenerate said what a beautiful film it was, and she beamed for a few seconds. I think this film will haunt her for a long time, with recurring images of the explicit sex and the morbid story. She has an eight-year-old daughter. How will she explain the film, and her decision to act in it, to her, especially as she reaches her curious teen-age years? Or she might use the film for the birds and the bees talk, with the added benefit of discussing how we should help those especially challenged members of our society.

Old Fashioned Musk

My local drugstore sells perfumes of bygone decades for cheap.

This is a chance for me to sample what perfume creators had in mind for women. Most of what I've encountered is strong, fragrance-filled, feminine scents, unlike our contemporary diluted contributions.

Recently, I found Musk by Alyssa Ashley for a mere $7. The salesgirl was kind enough to let me smell an already opened flask, and I decided to buy it and try it out. (As I told a Sephora's "perfumer," they should really hire me to sell perfumes. Every time I go there, she singles me out, and asks me what I think of some latest product. That way, I also get sample tubes without asking.)

Fragrantica, the online perfume finder, labels Musk as "Floral Woody Musk."

Here are some of the notes:

Musk, Bergamot
African orange flower
Iris
Rose
Jasmin
Violet
Amber
Oak moss

This reviewer advises that: "You should not spray too much otherwise it gets too strong and one spray is enough."

Despite the light, floral ingredients, it still has a strong scent.

Here is how it all started:

The Alyssa Ashley brand was started in the United States in the legendary sixties. The fragrance is created by the artistic imagination of an artist, who besides his love for painting had a special passion for perfume. The packaging he designed can be seen as an expression of modern art. Alyssa was the name of his youngest daughter and Ashley was her nickname because of her beautiful blonde hair. And so was Alyssa Ashley created!

I tried to find who this "artist" was (or is), but he seems to want to remain anonymous.

Here's another musk perfume I've reviewed:
Musk for Autumn

The Modern Woman's Inspiration: "I love any kind of sickness, and that sort of inspires me"

Left: Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy in Howard's End, in 1992
Right: as Miss Havisham, in Great Expectations, in 2012
The sickness that inspires Bonham Carter has taken over.

Helena Bonham Carter got her film recognition playing the period piece A Room With a View, from the novel with the same title by E. M. Forster, and the production of the classy British Merchant and Ivory.

Helena played the role of Lucy Honeychurch, a sweet-looking innocent girl who, "[b]y the end of the novel...is a strong and independent woman."

Lucy is nothing like the odd character that Bonhan Carater becomes, in her "real life" adult self.

October 2010 photo of
Bonham Carter

I've written about the degradation of film stars, here, where I describe the trajectory of Helen Hunt as a reasonably entertaining actress in the sitcom Mad About You, to a degenerate actress accepting a morbid role in the 2012 film The Sessions.

Bonham Carter's recent role is in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations as Miss Havisham, the woman jilted on her wedding day, and who, dressed in her wedding gown, never leaves her room from that fated day on.

Bonham Carter manages to infuse a deranged personality in what would be a sad, and even tragic tale.


Here's a what she says at the permiere of her film at the London Film Festival (the video is here):

The interviewer asks her how she gets inspired to play her characters.

Bonham Carter waffles on for a bit, then she says:

"I like sick people and [Miss Havisham] is really, really sick. I mean pathologically barking...So I love any kind of sickness, and that sort of inspires me [ends with a weird laugh, as though she knows she is sick]

Bonham Carter is "partnered" in real life with film director Tim Burton, whose last film was an infantile version of Alice in Wonderland, in which Bonham Carter played a bumbling Queen of Hearts. They are unmarried, have two children and live apart. To make a semblance of domesticity, they have adjoining houses with separate bedrooms, living areas, and kitchens.

Frankenstein and his Bride (a.k.a. Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carater)

Below is Bonham Carter at the British Film Institute London Film Festival in 2012, wearing a Vivienne Westwood dress. It is reminiscent of the cut-out wedding rags that Miss Havisham wore, as this writer describes it:

Bonham-Carter...wore a custom Vivienne Westwood look that could be seen as a modern twist on [Miss Havisham's] classic aged wedding gown: black ombre bridal-style dress with a voluminous tiered skirt...

At the British Film Institute London Film Festival
Closing Night Gala of Great Expectations' in October 2012

Bonham Carter could have chosen other Miss Havisham inspired dresses which Westwood seems to excel in.

From Vivienne Westwood's Autumn/Winter 2012-2013 collection

From Vivienne Westwood's Spring/Summer 2012 collection,
which she titles "Big Cocotte Wedding Dress"

The designer herself:


And as Miss Havisham, with her Frankenstein husband, who is twenty-five years younger than her: