The Hypocrisy Hall of Shame
Laurie David
The go-to green gal for Oprah Winfrey and other media titans, Laurie David, 50, has done more to sound the global warming alarm than almost anyone except her chum Al Gore. She even produced the former vice president’s Oscar-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." So why does the soon-to-be ex-wife of comedian Larry David keep homes in both California and Massachusetts, and fly a private jet between the two? “It’s not about being perfect. It’s about doing something,” she tells Condé Nast Traveler. “If we’re looking for perfection, we’ll never, ever get there.”
The Hypocrisy Hall of Shame
Green Issue Publishers
Magazines from Time to Vanity Fair are warming up to environmental coverage and publishing annual “green issues” dedicated to eco-friendly subjects. “But many of these green glossies seem determined to test their readers’ capacity for cognitive dissonance,” writes Advertising Age, “by editorializing for eco-friendly action on virgin paper that lugs big carbon emissions behind.” Not to mention all those ads designed to encourage consumption.
The Hypocrisy Hall of Shame
She’s got a point. Christina Ricci ranted to BlackBook magazine about the rise in sleaze culture, especially how it debases women. “I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified. It’s like the highest form of flattery for teenage girls,” the actress said. “I just feel like sexism is alive and well, and misogyny.” If only the 28-year-old "Speed Racer" actress hadn’t undermined her argument in photos that accompany the article. Ricci’s wardrobe included short-shorts that barely cover her pelvis, a boob-squeezing cropped tee and lace-up stilettos a stripper would call skanky.
The Hypocrisy Hall of Shame
Suzanne Somers
Comedians dubbed the scandal Thighgate. When a tabloid photographed actress and diet guru Suzanne Somers leaving a liposuction clinic in 2001, publishers were preparing to release her latest book "Eat, Cheat and Melt the Fat Away." And it wasn’t a plastic surgery guide. Seems Somers, then 54, didn’t owe her great body entirely to her signature product, the ThighMaster exercise gizmo. She told People the lipo was needed after radiation treatment for cancer to slim the area where her breasts met her back. “It's not about having a perfect body,” Somers told the magazine, “but about having a body I could be proud of at this age.”
-salient anomaly
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dumb bitches.
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