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Post by Katiedot Sat 05 Mar 2011, 11:31

Luckily waffling on and on in electronic ink isn't such an eco-calamity but she does get to the point eventually. My advice skip the first 10 paras and then read:

From Eco Salon

George Clooney Vs. Charlie Sheen: Welcome to Shade Grown Hollywood

by Katherine Butler on March 4, 2011 in Culture

ColumnWhere celebrity becomes conscious.
Right now, I’m applying ruby red lipstick. I’m putting on my wedding dress – the only vintage-like dress I own – and I’m stepping out onto a balcony to address the masses, meaning, the neighbor’s gardener who is running the leaf blower and totally ignoring me. But here goes anyway – I’m raising my hands to the skies and achieving a look to make Madonna proud. I’m shouting, “It’s time for a change! We need to get conscious! Don’t cry for me, Hollywood! The truth is I never left you!”

Or so goes the scene in my head when I think about an eco-conscious, sustainable, anti-materialistic Hollywood. The entertainment industry can be like a boulder that crashes down the hill of our cultural zeitgeist, blasting messages of consumerism and superficiality. Really, how can such an industry be conscious? And more to the point, does anyone care?

Well, I care. And you care. We’ve been shaken out of our blissed out-state where bottled water is a good thing and plastic shopping bags make baby seals happy. And some of us operate within the great publicity machine and cultural manipulator that is Hollywood, and we do so with our eyes wide open.

Welcome to Shade Grown Hollywood. It’s not all Kardashian country and Beverly Hills Botox in Los Angeles. I’m reporting to you less than a mile east of the Hollywood sign. I have a backyard that runs into a Scientology center adjacent whole-grain-featuring lunch joints. Celebrity has gone conscious in the afternoon shade of the Hollywood sign, and I’m here to bring you its angle week after week.

And here’s why. Sure, I live in Hollywood. I also write for it. I’ve written for characters ranging from the sassy-yet-vulnerable police woman to scamps espousing the values of a corporation that idolizes mouse ears. I was a party girl at points. I’ve been known to cover a red carpet. I’ve got dirt, and I’ll sling it when something needs to be mulched.

History aside, I have an idea of what it means to live green in LaLa Land. Some might argue that it’s impossible for Hollywood and all the superficiality to ever truly be conscious. After all, celebrity seems more recently known for bombastic meltdowns a la Charlie “I’m tired of pretending I’m not special” Sheen to John “I love Hitler” Galliano. But society is as complicated as the pompous, ridiculous extremes Hollywood mirrors back at us. And for every bloated, Botoxed beauty, there’s a conscious celebrity applying her Jane Iredale lip gloss for an event. For every Anne Hathaway getting paid $750,000 to wear jewelry at the Oscars, there’s, well…it’s hard to beat that. Really, Anne? There’s probably an embattled school district near you that could use a steep donation just about now.

But beyond material endorsement, there are the causes promoted by Hollywood. The industry can be a preening celebutante, posed on the red carpet with a hip thrown out dramatically, only later to turn up in the middle of a DUI mug shot or wearing a scarf over her head at a refugee camp. They are opposite extremes, and yet – both so very Hollywood.

And this duality holds true for Tinsel Town’s treatment of environmental issues. The entertainment industry risks hypocrisy every time it takes up a cause célèbre to promote environmental consciousness. It is an industry that hums with energy flowing into film shoots while yielding an unimaginable amount of trash and waste. Celebrity endorsement of a product feeds mass consumerism like a monster in a Grimm’s fairy tale, filling our landfills with an endless parade of junk. Jack climbs a beanstalk sanctioned by Natalie Portman, so suddenly all his friends are planting magical beans and praying for rain. We’re getting choked out by trash, and it’s all in the name of Britney Spears’ perfume. Or Jessica Simpson’s clothing line.

And yet, Hollywood would like to imagine itself green and in some respects, it is. Aside from a few stalwart Republicans, mostly headlined by Kelsey Grammer, Hollywood is notoriously liberal-leaning. Sometimes, it really is just lip service. But Hollywood holds both sides of an environmentalist’s heart. Leonardo DiCaprio can use his wattage to promote cleaner living, which is a good thing. But this happens while the carbon footprint of his film productions stomps one giant foot in front of another. So there’s an uncomfortable edge to the good green deeds, like a shade of smog darkening a hybrid’s sunroof.

This isn’t to say that celebrities who promote conscious causes are wrong. After all, how green is green? How different is this from the rest of us carrying our cloth bags to the grocery store or powering our fuel-efficient cars? We consume fossil fuels, but we do so in a Prius. We live on the grid, but we recycle. We do the best we can. Ultimately, Hollywood and its minions just provide amplified versions of the contradictions most of us feel in life. Some work to help while others work to consume. For every “tiger man with Adonis DNA” (ahem, Charlie), comes a George Clooney, using his celebrity to enhance awareness of atrocities in Darfur.

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And in comparing Charlie Sheen to George Clooney, we have our point. Both are sons of Hollywood and both are noted playboys. But it’s the way they live their lives that makes them polar opposites. There’s the Hollywood of Charlie Sheen, who seems to be summoning every aspect of crazy into a mammoth volcanic spew of narcissism. While some experts are calling Sheen bipolar, he calls himself “bi-winning” and recently told 20/20 that his brain fires in “a way that is perhaps not terrestrial.” Sheen may or may not be mentally ill and struggling with addiction, but he’s certainly living a lifestyle that is largely unconscious and consequence-free – at least for the moment.

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And then we have George. Clooney’s list of social activism is long and storied. Despite his involvement in bringing the Darfur genocide to light, he considers it “the greatest failure of my life” – because little changed after he and his father smuggled cameras into a refugee camp to bring to light the horrors committed against an entire nation. He calls humanitarian awards for helping those victimized by Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake “embarrassing” because “You don’t want to be awarded for doing what you’re supposed to be doing.” Even after contracting malaria on a recent diplomatic trip to the Sudan to prevent genocide in the area, he just called it “good fun.” Clooney is a man with perspective, decency, and a sense of responsibility. And he’s still so Hollywood.

Put Sheen and Clooney together in a fight for supremacy, and who would win? Would it be the humble advocate of the Sudan or the brain-addled addict who smacks around women? As the Buddha noted, there has to be evil so that good can prove its purity. And Hollywood plays itself out as cleanly as a universe filled with good and bad. Conscious and unconscious. And all the shades between.


Hollywood illustrates that it’s not easy living consciously. But while being able to list off the names of the Kardashian sisters might not enable us to live a more productive life, it doesn’t make us unfit for duty in the quest to connect with our world in a sustainable, enlightened way. Because celebrity can be conscious.
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Post by cindigirl Sat 05 Mar 2011, 15:04

I saw a biography of Charley Sheen last night on BIO channel. God, he was handsome then. Being the son of Martin Sheen he was given every opportunity for success but blew it. He was not given the gift of humility like George. George is pretty unique.
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Post by cindigirl Sat 05 Mar 2011, 15:12

By the way, on Charley's biography last night, it mentioned that he dated Kelly Preston. She then went on to dating Clooney, then married John Travolata. My goodness, that girl sure got around! I think I'm jealous.
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Post by melbert Sat 05 Mar 2011, 15:39

I am very proud of the fact that I follow George and NOT Charlie!!!!
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Post by Katiedot Sat 05 Mar 2011, 16:54

Kelly Preston dated George first, then Charlie Sheen who accidentally shot her in the arm.
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Post by Vi Sat 05 Mar 2011, 17:15

they are ALL psychos - ok - Katie - now you have a reason to ban me - ciao
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Post by melbert Sat 05 Mar 2011, 23:02

I really think that Charlie is a bit psychotic. I can't say that they ALL are psychos though.
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Post by lucy Sat 05 Mar 2011, 23:26

Charlie is a drug addict,and he may have some legitimate issues with the industry,but the drugs are doing most of the talking,and thinking.
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Post by melbert Sat 05 Mar 2011, 23:45

At one time or another, I think, all actors and all head honchos have disputes. Charlie had a valid point when he said that he showed up and was on mark (I personally don't like the show), but when he started his bad-mouthing about the bosses who had other cast and crew to be concerned about, I think he crossed the line. I don't think they had any choice with him being so out of control but to shut down to try to resolve this. I heard on one report that even though he may not be using now, for all the years that he supposedly has been using, he is going thru major withdrawals. You can't just stop something like that and not have if affect you in some way. I do pray that he will be okay, but I do believe that he has burned major bridges.
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Post by Katiedot Sun 06 Mar 2011, 01:57

Coke does some serious damage to your brain chemistry with long term use. As does alcohol.

Not saying Charlie's an innocent man because IMO he's far from that, but he's not firing on all four cylinders. I also think that just because you're a functional alcoholic/druggie doesn't make it ok; you still have a problem even if it seems like it's under control.
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Post by Dexterdidit Sun 06 Mar 2011, 02:14

What is scary about Charlie is that while we can see he is in trouble he truely seems to be believe he is "winning". It does do serious damage and it takes a long time to heal and even then you never fully recover. Charlie has to help himself before anyone can really help though and unfortunatly he feels he is doing ok and the porn stars he is hanging out with aren't going to tell him any differant!
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Post by lucy Sun 06 Mar 2011, 03:22

The people he has surrounded himself with are in his employ"the goddess"what are they going to do disagree with him. Do any of you remember not long ago when he was going thur the public battle with Denise,there were times when he had me convinced she was crazy. Now I know better,I wouldn't my kids exposed to his lifestyle.
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Post by Dexterdidit Sun 06 Mar 2011, 11:09

Don't know if any of you have seen this but Charlie is so desperate for attention he has done his own little internet chat show thing and posted it. It goes for 50 minutes I got through 3 or 4. It is just bizarre, I think he wants Howard Sterns job. He even drinks from what looks like a babies bottle to salute his kids who he gives shouts outs too and tells them to tell their mothers to leave the room...;.No wonder Stan left!
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Post by lucy Sun 06 Mar 2011, 13:12

The photos taken of him over a period of months tell their own story, it is just so sad to watch someone come apart like that and no one can seem to stop it.My heart goes out to his poor family and what they must be feeling about this.
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Post by melbert Sun 06 Mar 2011, 19:00

Dex, I did watch it - total waste of 50 minutes. One of the GossipCop comments stated that he went from 150,000 down to 87,000 during the broadcast (something like that). L O S I N G!!!!!!!
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Post by melbert Sat 02 Apr 2011, 21:16

Charlie Sheen's Torpedo Tour starts out tonight in Detroit. I wonder if George got front row seats?????
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Post by Dexterdidit Sun 03 Apr 2011, 00:42

I think some people are going to want their money back. He is just going to rant and rave....too bad though there are no refunds and the backers have already covered themselves for shows he doesn't turn up too which I think will be a few. Cause charlie doesn't think he is like the rest of us so I don't see him treating his audience with much or any respect. I doubt George would show Charlie it too unstable and may talk about their commen interest in a certain porn star who they both dated at one stage!
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Post by melbert Sun 03 Apr 2011, 00:57

Actually, I agree 100% with you Dex! I said that kind of tongue-in-cheek. I really don't think George is THAT big a fool to attend that mess!
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