Thursday, July 28, 2005

Gina Gershon vs. Carmen Electra

I was so glad to see "Trippin the Rift" back for a new season. All in all, I am still happy, except...

I'm sorry, I recognize the fact that Carmen Electra has been willing to hook up with rock stars and basketball players, and has been willing to pose for the Pimp of the Western World, Hugh Hefner (and no, unlike stupid kids, I do not think of pimp as word of praise...a pimp is a man who exploits women's bodies, sexually, to make himself rich at a detriment to the women...that's a bad person, no matter what his employees say). But, they brought her in to replace Gina Gershon as the voice of Six.

Gina is one of our bravest and more versatile actresses, and is a couple of orders of magnitude hotter and more talented than Carmen.

I don't know why the switch (maybe Gina got busy elsewhere on another film project and Carmen had spare time between drunken Vegas weddings and flashing her tits? dunno)

Otherwise, carry on. Just wanted to vent. The notion that a pin up model (or celebutante or sister of an accomplished sunger/actress/politician) automatically has talent is ludicrous (some do, but I think talent is distributed by some other standards than your willingness to spend a few hours in a hotel room or at a party with some guy you just met who can "help your career").

We are running a risk of devloping an overclass of in-bred celebrities and an underclass split between the sheep who are too benumbed to notice and the masses who become alienated. And in the age of the internet and the Digital Renaissance, a class war could get real ugly.

Count me in.

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