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TERRY LAWSON: Celebs can't get a break

October 29, 2006

Since this will come out anyway, I might as well confess. I wrote this with a smear of pine tar on my bald spot, because I just can't get a grip on all this:

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the sanest high-profile politician in the United States.

Michael J. Fox is dumped on by prescription drug abuser Rush Limbaugh for taking legally prescribed medicine.

Paul McCartney may have to give a sizable part of his fortune to a woman whose own court filings paint a picture of her as a classic narcissist nag, because he truly believed that all you needed was love.

Madonna is forced to go on "Oprah" to defend herself for adopting an African child.

Schwarzenegger, with boundless ego and self-confidence but no particular credentials, gets himself elected governor of California as a Republican, and has proceeded to disappoint his conservative backers. How? By acknowledging the common sense and science of global warming, supporting legislation that would require higher fuel efficiency and lower emissions for automobiles, and asking the president to intercede with an emergency plan that would reduce heating oil prices for Californians who need the help. What a turncoat.

As for Fox, he had the audacity to make a TV commercial supporting a Missouri initiative to allow certain types of stem cell research and endorse the Democratic candidate in that state's Senate race who backs it. (The Republican incumbent doesn't.)

He is then attacked by Limbaugh, who suggests that the actor, who has Parkinson's disease, went off his meds so his body would shake more violently. In fact, anyone who knows anything about the degenerative disease knows that the shaking is a side effect of the medicine; when you don't take it, you can seem catatonic.

McCartney's mistake was forgoing a pre-nup in his marriage to Heather Mills, much to the chagrin of his children, because he believed her love for him was real. Her side in the divorce battle leaks court papers intended to make the public believe he was not only insensitive but a wife abuser, and the gossip pages and TV duly report this. The actual court papers, on the other hand, make her look like nothing more than a conniving egotist.

Madonna, of course, has spent a good deal of her career doing and saying things to get attention, so now we are expected to believe that her adoption of an African baby, as trendy as it might be, is not only a publicity stunt, but a cultural crime.

I have spent way too much of my career talking to celebrities. Some are transparent phonies. Some of them are simply not that bright. Many more of them have perfected the acting art of seeming sincere. And some, it is obvious to me, clearly care about both the quality of the work they do and the causes to which they attach their names and their signatures on checks.

They don't need my support. What they need is the same thing the rest of us deserve: the benefit of the doubt.

Contact TERRY LAWSON at tlawson@freepress.com.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!!!! =)

It's my Mom's birthday today!!! YAY for Mommy!!!

We bought her three cd's [the first Michel Buble CD, the newest Lifehouse and an old Moody Blues cd] and a $150.00 gift certificate to a fav store of hers, and then we are going out to dinner tonight!! Eugenio came over today, and brought a HUGE bouquet of flowers and a very sweet card =)

I love my Mommy!

Other than that, I started my job today for the first time :) I am officially a Photo Lab Technician at Shopper Drug Mart! Yay.. im so proud of myself! I learned how to do it with the computer etc, and it not like how I learned to do it by hand, this is all by the machine.. which is so much greater. But I love it.. I get to see great shots and not so great shots! The pay is great, and I am happy there. My boss is SOOOOOOOO grateful to have me there.... she said so many times that this was the BEST trainee she had in a LONG time. It was nice to see that she said that to me. Made me feel good.

Other than that, I am eating a Pizza Pop and listening to Britney Spears! Oh I love her! "Cant Make You Love Me" off of the  Oops.. I Did It Again album, before that, it was Kelly Clarkson and "Breakaway", "Since U Been Gone", " Behind These Hazel Eyes", "Becasue of You" [which is, by the way her NEW song... im so friggin happy!!!!!], "Hear Me", The Backstreet Boys new album "Incomplete" and "My Beautiful Woman", and NOW.. OH YEAH!!!! Guess who!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JOHN FREAKING MAYER!!!

Krystyna loves John Mayer.. I love it!!! It is "Clarity" from Heavier Things. What Krystyna did was pick the cd's that she wanted to listen to, and therefore, she is doing a process of elimanation as to what we will be listening too. Next it could be the newsest cd by Craig David [which i bought yesterday...it's yummy!] or The Killers [of which was also purchased yesterday by Allie for me]. But.. who knows.. JM might be on for a LONG time. He's so loud right now. I love it... I feel like he is singing to me.. it's so amazing. I love John Mayer.

Talking about John Mayer.. [like i have never, ever, ever, ever EVER, EVER done that before! :P ;)] the concert is coming up......

 Did you all know I am going to the concert?

You better know it!

Well, Mindsay.. i love you. I love you tons.

I hope you're feeling better Court.

I love you Duane.

I love you Ronal.

I love you Goddess.

I love you Steeni.

I love you Morgan.

I love you Magen.

I love you Enver.

I love you Lee Girl and Lee Boy.

I love you Vic.

I love you Jade.

I love you Genio.

I love you Kate.

I love you Allison.

I love you Red.

I love you Tess.

I love you Six.

I love you Shiny.

I love you Nicole.

I love you Kay.

I love you Steven.

I love you EVERYONE!

[those were just off the top of my head... i love you all]

Have a RAD WEEKEND

Hello My Beautiful Mindsay Friends!

Here's my Monday! :P