VMA Wrap-Up

So the MTV VMA's went off last night with just a couple glitches.  Lady Gaga came as a man, Nicki Minaj came as Lady Gaga, Katy Perry came as Nicki Minaj and Jay-Z came in Beyonce as she announced that she is expecting her own little diva, who I am sure will come out with her own wind machine.  I read that Beyonce's pregnancy wasn't that shocking since she had never been seen with that many clothes on.

•   Selena Gomez was a host for the MTV Pre-Show and spent the evening pretending to be a journalist.  From pretending to still being BFF with Demi Lovato to asking boyfriend Justin Bieber was his snakes name was, even though she has been playing with it for months.

•  Kanye West and Jay-Z surprised the audience with a performance, but a member of the audience decided to give Kanye a taste of his own medicine by storming the stage.  Security grabbed the guy before he could make a scene and the show went on.

•  Lady Gaga took another spill off the piano, but the camera cut to a concerned Adele, saving the male Gaga from embarrassment.

• MTV paid tribute to both Britney Spears and the late Amy Winehouse.  While Amy's was tasteful and fitting, poor Britney's acceptance speech was parlayed into introducing mama Beyonce.  Britney did prove that she is almost back to her old self, though we would have loved a performance.

• Katy Perry and Kanye West on for best collaboration.  As the buzzed Perry accepted it was shocking that she was more annoying than Kanye.

• Chris Brown seemed to think that if he flew over the crowd and tried to dance that we would forget about him being a woman beater.  When Nirvana began playing during his dance routine, I was hoping Kurt Cobain would make sure Brown was dropped from his high wire act.  Sadly, Chris survived.

• Jared Leto still hasn't realized that he is not Peter Pan and is a grown man.  Seriously, someone take away his black finger nail polish and give him a hair cut.

• Lady Gaga spent the entire evening in character as a man who I believe is the love child of Andrew Dice Clay and Ralph Machio.

Matthew Morrison Tries Too Hard

After the Madonna filled episode of Glee gained such praise, Britney Spears manager Adam Leber began a Twitter campaign to have a Britney-Themed episode.  He tweeted on April 20 asking if "you want to see a Britney episode on Glee?"  Everyone would, right?

Well not everyone.  Matthew Morrison, who we all know as man whore Will Schuester, made sure he set the record straight.


"Her manager just put out the rumor," Matthew said at the White House Correspondents dinner. "Hopefully we don't go down that road."

Okay, okay, we get it Matt.  You are straight and you are NOT a fan of Britney or Madonna because of said sexual orientation.  Get this through that curly ass head of yours. The more you shove the straightness down our throats and try so hard to boycott everything gay, the more we see you leading the Gay Pride Parade.

The Price Of Fame

Actors always knew that they wanted to be actors.  I knew it from the time I was 3 and wanted to be on Sesame Street.  It seems like the perfect career.  People love you, you can have whatever you want, and you get a lot of money to do something you love.  And while you are in the limelight, Hollywood seems to love you.  But once you stop being an asset to them, the whole world changes.

That is what happened to a lot of child actors.  It's not a secret that once child actors grow up and lose the cuteness factor, chances are your career is over.  Some people can handle it, some long for the limelight.  It has become increasingly clear to us, as we continue to lose stars that we love.  Drew Barrymore is the perfect example.  That poor girl was in rehab twice by the age of 15.  Miraculously, she ended up on the other end of the tunnel even more successful then before.  And her tip? She said that she had to learn to love herself.  Lame, but true.  These stars think that once Hollywood is done with them, they are no longer good enough for anything else.

Corey Haim's untimely death yesterday was the perfect example.  Though he may have had an accidental overdose related to flu like symptoms, he past drug use was very well known.  He was once a teen sensation, then he was a lost soul hooked on drugs.  We all know why people turn to drugs, it is an escape from reality.  And if you were once a household name who is now on the outside looking in, drugs are the only thing that numbs the pain.

How much longer will Hollywood exploit actors and actresses until they have soaked them dry?  The bodies are piling up left and right. It is a trend that has become dangerous.  If the stars don't turn to drugs to cope, they find something else.  Eating disorder, shoplifting, anything to make them feel better. 

What about the stars of today? What will happen to them once the fanfare dies down and they get older and cannot get roles? Remember Haley Joel Osment? What happened to him? Oh, that's right.  He was arrested for a DUI. 

Getting into this business, you have to know that your 15 minutes of fame does really come and go.  It doesn't last forever and when it is over, it's a big difference.  Some of out favorite stars today will be phased out completely.  There is nothing we can do about it.  It's a shock to go from not being able to walk down the sidewalk to no one even caring anything about you.  Even the people that actors keep closest to them are never in it for the actor.  They may sit by and kiss you ass, seem to be doing anything to further your career, but they are the first to turn their back on you when things go down.  Ask Britney Spears.  If her people had cared for her more, she would not have ended up the way she did.


Women have it even harder.  In Hollywood, there is always someone younger, someone prettier waiting in the wings.  Hollywood is the wrong business for anyone to get into.  If you get in deep enough, you might not come out alive.