For the love of God, somebody take away her money

[trinityvixen]

I know I'm being a bad outrage-spewing person, but this news doesn't really irritate me the way, say, that Paris Hilton's DUI situation did. I still think it's loathsome and vile that a seriously coked- and boozed-up person with money to spare got behind the wheel of a car instead of, I dunno, sending minions to drive her or whatever, but this just kinda makes me sad. It's addiction that does it, really. This girl has got Problems. With a capital P, even. I dunno why she wants to spend her twenties wasted off her ass, but if she really wants to and can support her addiction, couldn't she at least stay off the roads? Sigh.

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Speaking of addictions, though? I watched Thank You For Smoking. Aaron Eckhart just looks...weird. I can't even really look at him because his face is at odds with his chin and his chin is fighting his awful hair. He doesn't look quite human. He looks like what you get when you watch Conan O'Brien and he mashes together two celebrities' faces into one. Also, the movie wasn't bad, but it's really aggravating to see the scum of the earth be the hero. Anti-heroes, fine. Unlikeable protagonist with no real change or character development or proof of humanity? No thanks.

Less sure than ever about his being Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight. Otherwise, I quite liked the restained fury of Maria Bello's character. I didn't like A History of Violence at all, but I've liked her since I saw her defending her right to be viewed nude below the waist without that raising the NC-17 threat level on her picture in This Film is Not Yet Rated. I'd have to see more of her to know, but I wouldn't object to that.

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

You'd be surprised what you could get if you paid for it. I mean, she probably doesn't go to a dealer herself for drugs. Not if she's being watched as carefully as she is.

[trakkie.livejournal.com]

True. My point was mostly that she doesn't seem together enough to even think of getting herself a driver - in which case, that responsibility should fall to friends or family, but no one around her seems to care very much. Sad.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The part that's really crazy is that they have some kind of bracelet on her to monitor her alcohol intake that either doesn't work, wasn't working, or, I dunno, fell off because they didn't even know she'd been arrested--hours after, I would assume, she'd been drunk.

It's just sad.