Disney Actress’ Broadway Puppet Sex
Christy Carlson Romano is best known for her Disney Channel roles as Shia LaBeouf’s older sister on “Even Stevens” and the voice of the animated “Kim Possible.”
Now the 24-year-old is gaining fame for her “Kate Monster” and “Lucy the Slut” parts in “Avenue Q,” a Broadway play that involves puppets in compromising positions.
“Avenue Q” is Romano’s first Broadway role since starring four years ago in “Beauty and the Beast.”
“I was like, ‘That’s it. I never want to do that again. I feel so dirty.’ … And I would watch it every night and I’d go, ‘I can’t do that. I can’t do that.’ And then, basically, you just start laughing. … You just get sucked into the world that is ‘Avenue Q,”’ the actress told the Associated Press.
About the requirement that she use puppets to express herself, Romano said, “Once you actually feel yourself integrated with the puppet’s movements, it’s like, ‘Omigod, that’s what that’s about? I can do that again.’ And then you continue to do it and then it’s like you don’t even think about it.”
James Hirsen is a media analyst
Media Mixed on ‘W.’ Box-Office Expectations
Even with a big budget, name director and well-known cast, in its opening weekend Oliver Stone’s “W.” Bush bash only placed fourth at the box-office.
Giving Stone a bit of a dig, the Associated Press ribbed that “movie-goers elected a ‘W,’ but it was Mark Wahlberg, (star of “Max Payne.”) not George W. Bush.” The action movie “Max Payne” opened with $18 million to take the first place spot.
Stone’s flick took in $10.6 million from 2,030 cinemas, resulting in $5,197 a theater, a figure the A.P. called “unremarkable.” With a reported $25 million dollar production budget and another $25 million spent on promotion and advertising, “W.” still has a long way to go to be in the black.
In a previous review of the film, I explained that this was a movie made by Bush-haters for Bush-haters.
Since Stone’s last movie, “World Trade Center,” opened with $18.7 million and “W.” was released during a presidential election, box-office expectations were high.
Evidently, media reports were conflicted.
Variety claimed the $10.6 in revenue for Stone’s movie “performed on the upper end of expectations.”
The USA Today dubbed the same amount as having “met expectations.”
Entertainment Weekly semi-apologetically opined that the Stone flick “did well given all that it had going against it…”
The magazine claimed that the $10.6 million number was “not bad for a movie opening during tough economic times about a man whom many Americans blame for said financial strains.”
James Hirsen, J.D., M.A. in Media Psychology, is a media analyst, teacher of mass media and entertainment law at Biola University and professor at Trinity Law School.
Michael Douglas’ ‘Wall Street’ Advice
Michael Douglas is no biz whiz, but he played one in the movies.
That was apparently enough for reporters to seek his sage stage advice on the financial crisis that’s gripping today’s headlines.
Douglas starred in the 1987 Oliver Stone film, “Wall Street,” a role for which he was awarded an Oscar for Best Actor. Gordon Gekko was the character he portrayed in the flick. Gekko was a corporate takeover artist best known for his catchphrase, “Greed is good.”
While recently engaged in a press conference to promote the idea of a new treaty to ban the testing of nuclear weapons, Douglas was asked, “Are you saying, Gordon, that greed is not good?”
“I’m not saying that,” the actor replied. “And my name is not Gordon. He’s a character I played 20 years ago.”
Douglas was quick to straighten out the issues of his real name and the big-screen time frame, but interestingly, still up in the air is whether or not greed is good.
James Hirsen, J.D., M.A. in Media Psychology, is a media analyst, teacher of mass media and entertainment law at Biola University and professor at Trinity Law School.
Jessica Alba Sports Muzzle to Score Votes
In trying to get out the vote, some Hollywood celebs tend to be overly dramatic.
In the last election, Cameron Diaz claimed that failure to vote would result in the legalization of rape.
P. Diddy, of course, has his running “Vote or Die!” program.
Now Jessica Alba is getting into the election act with an ad that has her wearing a Hannibal Lecter-type mask.
With tears running down her cheeks the actress appears muzzled, accompanied by this message: “Only you can silence yourself. Make them hear you. Register to vote now.”
Why a muzzle?
“If you don’t register and vote and make a difference, and hopefully change the bad things that are happening in our country, you are essentially just binding and muzzling yourself,” Alba explains to People magazine.
The Democrats are always seeking new ways to motivate younger voters who overwhelmingly vote the Dem way.
“I think it is important for young people to be aware of the need we have in this country to get them more active politically,” Alba says.
She adds, “People respond to things that are shocking.”
A staged muzzling—I’m shocked, shocked I tell you!
James Hirsen, J.D., M.A. in Media Psychology, is a media analyst, teacher of mass media and entertainment law at Biola University and professor at Trinity Law School.
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