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Sara, you said that childhood stardom
was such a destructive force for Michael Jackson, and you were right. But
the current issue of Vanity Fair has a cover
story on Heath Ledger that shows for a sensitive adult, stardom ain't all
its cracked up to be, either. This isn't a new idea: That's why "the price of
fame" is such a cliched phrase. But Peter Biskind's story of the Ledger demise
is particularly heart-stomping, since Heath was so young, so talented, and being
a movie star really did ruin every aspect of his life ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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A guest post from Double X writer Caryn James:
With stylish women flaunting recessionista chic and Michelle Obama
embracing her modest roots—“my parents were working class people,” she
repeats in speeches—it may seem like a timely advance that a flurry of
independent films (in theaters and on DVD) are depicting those
forgotten heroines, working-class women. In Wendy and Lucy, a deglamorized Michelle Williams lives out of her car while driving to Alaska in search of a job. There’s Frozen River, with Melissa Leo in her Oscar-nominated role as a trailer-park single mom, and Julia, with Tilda Swinton playing a downwardly spiraling alcoholic.
These movies are unsentimental and wonderfully realistic on the
surface, but take a closer look: why is every one of these heroines... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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