In order to demonstrate our extreme case of pop culture amnesia, starting today, every Friday I will bring you What a difference a year makes, a pleasant retrospective on our favorite celebrity self-loathing-inducers' past. One year ago today, here's what everyone was talking about:
• Paris Hilton got engaged to Paris Lastis. It sure is adorable how young love lasts forever. [People]
• The nation was still reeling from Tom Cruise’s incident on Oprah. Little did we know that the world would never be the same. [Defamer]
• Lindsay Lohan continued to run her car into everything in sight. Thankfully since then she has stayed away from the driver’s side. The world is a safer place for it. [The Superfial]
• Are they or aren’t they? Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie kept the world guessing as to whether their privates had touched. Hint: they had. [PopSugar]
• Renee Zellweger was ready to prove the sanctity of her recent wedding vows with Kenny Chesney. For a good couple months. [Hollywood.com]
• Christian Slater grabbed some woman’s ass. Unfortunately, it was about ten years too late for her to enjoy it. [PITNB]
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BRILLIANT addition to the blog - love it! As they say, "The more things change, the more they stay the same".
Tipsy, are you going to off yourself? Please don't. Molly can save you.
I must be retarded because I don't get it. You can rest assured that I have no plans to take a permanent sabbatical from my fulfilling job of making making snarky comments and getting paid for it.
IMO, the freaky scientologists believe that a baby or child is really a small adult, that there is no need for bonding. I believe that tiny Tom is demanding that Katie be by his side in public events to make him look "normal", and that Katie is in tears because she wants to stay with her baby instead of literally being dragged along with him. However, tiny Tom is so controlling and demanding because he thinks that only he has all the answers and knows the correct thing to do, that he is 'pulling rank" as the older partner and the father of the baby, to raise Suri as only he sees fit. Katie is depressed, missing her baby, and is being sleep-deprived due to the scientologists trying to finish brainwashing her into a compliant robot. All of this inner turmoil shows on Katie's face, and that's why he hollers at her to always keep her face down in public, as well as wanting her to slouch down to make him appear to be the same height as she is. Poor girl—when you've been brainwashed and told that everyone else is the enemy, and that only your abuser loves you and knows what is best for you–it's no wonder that Katie has lost her own self-identity and sense of self-worth. Her own personal power has been stripped away, to be replaced by a compliant robot who can be controlled and made to perform in public as her abuser wishes. Yes, I am calling tiny Tom an abuser.
I am not impressed by the good things that Scientology has done, bcause they are a cult and possess cult mentality. They harbor false beliefs and prey on the psyche of many people, for money. There are a few people at the top of the pyramid getting rich at the expense of many innocent and brainwashed victims.