Entertainer Lindsay Lohan and socialite
Entertainer Lindsay Lohan and socialite Paris Hilton have both been 'in the news' for making social faux-pas when exiting cars, allowing paparazzi to shoot up-skirt photos of their uncovered privates. Lohan and Hilton were out partying with recent divorcee and second-time mom Britney Spears, who was wearing a VERY short mini-dress, and as it turned out, no underwear... Paris drove her to the party in her McLaren SLR coupe, a Mercedes sportscar with gull-wing doors - which of course provide no protection against suitably positioned photographers. Sure enough, Brit stepped out of the car with all the grace of a newborn giraffe, and the shooters got their shot.
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People are decrying this as some kind of bottom-of-the-barrel-scraping attention-grab. I see it as a trio of young female entertainers who are having some fun with the media - all three of them are wealthy enough to not have to care about their public images, and these days, what image does anyone in their position have? There's almost no point trying to be 'above it all' when the media will happily make up stories and misrepresent everything you say and do for their benefit. So in that sense all these three are doing is controlling the imagery. Honestly, how is flashing one's privates any worse than the drunken womanizing of the Rat Pack in the 1950's-1960's? It astonishes me how violence is continually put above sexuality in the public's acceptability matrix.
Casino Royale 2006: Kuro5hin's take on the new Bond film. Some good, some bad, but the verdict is in: if Daniel Craig can keep it up and the producers done let him down with a bad script in future installments, he might end up just behind Sean Connery in the rankings...
CityTV online has an amusing story on the excuses employees use to take sick days.