Um, Gwyneth Paltrow is African? [View All]

[im10ashus]

The whitest women in the world is of African descent. I guess when it comes down to it, we all are, but, um... :wow: I just think this whole celebrity trendiness is getting a bit transparent.

You are the whitest white girl in the entire wide white world, Paltrow. Cheers to you that you support a very worthy cause. BUT, allow someone else to do the ads. You'd survive about 10 minutes in African bush. And, you just

http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2006/08/right-gwynnie-and-im-martian.html

AS the house lights dim for the second act of each performance of Madonna’s “Confessions” tour, the singer, wearing a crown of thorns, begins her 1986 anthem, “Live to Tell,” while her body hangs in mock crucifixion on a cross glittering with the mirrored tiles of a disco ball.

Madonna has been riffing on crucifix imagery for two decades. What hauls the entire tableau vivant into the present are the images flickering behind her on screens: close-ups of African children, staring with mournful eyes, superimposed over crackling flames and a running ticker, which tallies at 12 million the number of children orphaned by AIDS in Africa.

That Madonna should suddenly be casting an ice-blue eye toward Africa should hardly be surprising. After all, she has always known how to spot a trend.

And much as it may strain the limits of good taste to say it, Africa — rife with disease, famine, poverty and civil war — is suddenly “hot.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/fashion/13AFRICA.html