Pattinson
Palin
I was thinking last night about past topics/obsessions of this blog. Two came to mind: Sarah Palin and Robert Pattinson (who, for the non-cognoscienti, plays Edward Cullen, star vampire, in the movies based on Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight.)
So, what do Palin and Pattinson have in common?
- Big hair.
- Careers in which they act out the part of ordinary Americans. (Rob, of course, pretends to be a blood-sucking ordinary American, Sarah to be a non-money and celebrity-sucking ordinary American.)
- Close relationships with dark-haired teenage girls (or just past teenage), which have somehow augmented their celebrity. (Okay, that one’s a bit silly.)
- Media vehicles that promote fantasy, the bare suppression (or not) of intense (seeming) passion, and (ahem) abstinence. (Twilight/Fox).
- Fortunes that have been made from such media vehicles.
- Exuberant fans who do not seem to question what skeptics view as possible deficiencies–Rob’s acting, Sarah’s governing. (Query–is it the hair? Or the fantasy?)
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