What in the Goddess's name has come over the American media? The collective hatred aimed at Paz de L'Huerta after her appearance at the dull, tedious, probably-fixed Emmys was so vitriolic, reading it all burned my eyeballs.
Paz does not conform to the Prom Queen ideal pedalled by the American media in it's entirety, therefore, like a collection of mean girls in the gym, all the female writers here have decided to Hate Her. Paz is nothing like Jennifer Anniston or the red-headed girl in the worst film of the year 'the Help' as in 'give me the help I need to get out of this cinema'. Paz stalks around the place in her high heels, sneering at the Prom committee members while their boyfriends openly drool. Playing a broken character in Boardwalk Empire gives Paz the kudos many Prom Queens and Jocks dream of before it's secretly drummed out of them in college and beyond.
What's happened to America? People are lamenting the demise of the economy, employment and all the key social issues but I say, get your cultural house in order. This is the country that gave us Eartha Kitt, Lena Horne, Shirley Mclaine, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Lux Interior, the B52s, KD Lang, Lady GaGa, Kathy Bates and tons of other quirky-but-beautiful in their own way people of creative interest. Popular culture here is closing back down into a 1950s mentality, where cheesy blondes with big teeth are the winners and everyone else has to sit on the bleechers, or whatever those things where all the High School losers are forced to sit are called...
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