Jamie Lee Curtis: Lay Off the Gray

[marmar]

from HuffPost:


Jamie Lee Curtis
Posted March 5, 2009 | 11:40 AM (EST)
Lay Off the Gray


Give me a f-ing break.

The cover of the New York Times has an article about the fact that President Obama's hair has started to turn gray! Are we really so deluded, see many of my past posts, that we are focusing even one inch of a column of this venerable institution, the New York Times as well as every other outlet, Huffpost included, on the president's hair color? Gray happens ( see below, the first stop on the Googlepedia, a children's health website called Kidshealth. Might want to bookmark and read it). I know that gray happens. I stopped trying to change the course of my hair color/heredity years ago and have been trying to focus on changing the things I can, personal relationships, my health, my heart, my mind, my carbon footprint and yes, in this quicksand economy, my spending habits. The president has been handed the most difficult set of circumstances in perhaps our nation's history and we are talking about his hair. Hair? Who cares?

Dip your hand into the hat and pull up another slip of paper.

Education
Health Care
Environment
Drugs
Addiction
Diabetes
Crime
Elder care

Pick one and read/write about it. There are heroes everywhere and villains a plenty to fill our newsprint. There are stories that will make us all shift our consciousness like only great writing can and yet we focus on the mundane, banal, trivial.

Look in the mirror. You are the root of the problem ( excuse the pun).

Focus, people.

Don't slide down the gray scale. Resist the dark ( probably dyed ) side.

Come into the light.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-lee-curtis/lay-off-the-gray_b_172143.html

[shraby]

1. Better title.."Why the Grey Lady is Becoming Irrelevant"

[pleah]

2. K&R

[Catshrink]

3. Exactly. Let's focus on the real stuff

except with the puppy arrives. Then I want to know every detail.

[MrsBrady]

4. puppy dogs

are never irrelevant.

[CrispyQ]

5. LOL - me too!

:hi:

[Beregond2]

6. Jamie Lee is a great gal.

[Starry Messenger]

7. I love Jamie Lee Curtis.

She and Christopher Guest are one of my favorite Hollywood couples. :)

[TahitiNut]

9. 'Wanda Meets A Mighty Wind'

:rofl:

[Starry Messenger]

10. I bet they are screamingly funny in real life, too.

Can you imagine? I'd love to be a fly on the wall. :D

[TahitiNut]

11. I'd be happy to have dinner with them. The conversation would be terrific.

I'd choose two-and-a-half hours at Restaurant Nicolas in Paris ... hog heaven.

[Kalyke]

20. Christopher, does Jaime go up to 11?

:D

:evilgrin:

[DrZeeLit]

8. She's my hero. Exactly what I wanted to say the minute "they" started this idiotic storyline. Ugh.

[MADem]

12. So, he started eschewing the Grecian Formula. So what?

When you approach fifty you may as well.

This kind of stuff is as silly as picking on people for their clothing or their hair-dos or their make up.

But then, it's WAY easier than reporting real news!

And there's why they do it....

[hfojvt]

15. he may not ever have used Grecian formula

My hair is mostly non-gray, by about 99%, but I have noticed more gray lately and I am about Obama's age. He's six months older than me.

They are not picking on him as much as they are continuing the story they have told before - that being President is a stressful job that ages you.

[MADem]

16. There was comment about this on the campaign trail, though, as well.

The suggestion was that he had been using hair dye and then eased off on it, to make himself appear "more experienced."

This is almost a recycled story. The only difference is that we're talking about a bit more gray than before.

See, this is from last summer:

http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/08/obamas-hairgate-plenty-of-gray-matter/

[proud patriot]

13. LOL Rock On Jamie

:yourock:

:thumbsup:

[deaniac21]

14. May have been a little tougher for Washington or say, Lincoln.

Not to mention FDR. What we have now isn't even close.

[BlooInBloo]

17. Pfft. Everybody knows that a REAL journalist would be talking about Mrs. Obama's arms.

:rofl:

[XOKCowboy]

18. I Love Jamie Lee. She's hotter than ever...

and I'm not just talking about her looks. Smart and funny women are always sexy to me. She's right also. Who the hell should care about cosmetology when our freaking country is falling apart?

[Kalyke]

19. Jaime Lee Curtis is still one of the most attractive women I've

ever seen.

And she looks great gray - so does Obama.

Who cares?!

[donheld]

21. Love it Ms Curtis!