Remember when kissing Madonna was the raciest thing Britney had ever done?

Paglia's driven the crazy bus into a tree one too many times for me. And, when I read her, I often feel she's trying to be controversial just for controversy's sake. It's showy and slightly unhinged. I mean praising the studio era? Certainly the Britney/Paris/Lindsay triumvirate of starlet stupidity is a very bad thing. But, a culture that encourages photographers to get down on their stomachs so they can shoot young women's most private of privates is also to blame here. So Camille gets a hearty "whatever" from me...
Anyway, for a good laugh check out Amy Poehler's take on the whole sorted mess:
http://dorothysurrenders.blogspot.com/2006/12/ladies-you-need-to-cool-it.html

I just have one comment on this...I have to say this because it frustrates me to no end and because i didn't even SEE the friggin' kiss until a month of hoopla had driven me to seek it out to see just how 'extreme' it was.
I was all set for some serious hot lesbian action given the hubbub surroundign this. Then i saw a gender f*cking hollywood stunt during which Madonna 9Wait for it) kissed Christina Aguilera AND Brittany and Brittany just HAPPENED to come at it with her mouth open. by the time the kiss actually occured their lips were sealed...no tongue, no granting of special wishes and once again...she kissed Christina Aguilera too so where was that special torch? Hell she kissed her first so shouldn't the torch have been passed on to her initially? No?
Maybe I'm just crazy.

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when one's name is not in the press often enough or their handlers feel there isn't enough attention being shown to them, that's when the crazies come out and speak out.

that is steadfast rule #1 in Hollywood.

the studio era, eh? let's ask judy garland what she thought of it. someone refill camille's xanax prescription so she can chill out.

Searching for deeper meaning in that kiss is like looking for deeper meaning in a Bryce Courtenay book. Passing the torch? Hello? A cheesy way to get publicity, more like. I mean, it's still being talked about 3 years later so it had to have worked. The same formula worked for Ta Ta or Te Tu or whatever that Russian faux-lesbian band were. The unholy trinity of Britney-Paris-Lindsay needs to be put out of its and our misery and replaced with girls who have a clue.

OT, but did anyone else notice the whole "evil murdering lesbians killing someone to avoid being outed" cliche that was pulled AGAIN tonight on Law & Order?

*sigh*

Forget the Staples "easy" button ... can we please get a "dumbarse, stereotyping, demonising, and lazy script idea" button?

Paglia was not the first person that used the "passing the torch" line. In fact, so many people have used those very words "passed the torch" to describe the kiss, I bet it was introduced by a publicist. Even Madonna told her kid (and the press) that "I am the mommy pop star and she is the baby pop star. I am kissing her to pass my energy on to her."

Madonna kissed also Christina Acquilera in that same scene. Hardly no-one even remembers that. How many torches excatly can Madonna pass? Can I get one too?

Camille Paglia should not get to call herself a lesbian. I think side-show freak is more appropriate, but I'll settle for irrelevant snake oil salesperson.

I think you mean feminist, not lesbian. or maybe not...

I totally agree with dorothy snarker. Paglia is totally insane and needs to take a
flying fuck.

I don't really agree that the behavior a few spoiled little rich girls actually reflect women as a whole. As someone who has met some of these Hollywood celebrities, I can tell you first hand that these people are such prima donnas. They think they are so special. It's enough to make you not want to watch them. When I think of strong women in films, I tend to think of Jodie Foster, or Susan Sarandon. Women who are smart and strong. These women don't seek out the attention of the press by doing racy things in public, they don't have to. They have talent. :o) Jodie Foster Rocks!

Passing the torch in the form of spit? That's funny. I thought the Britney-Madonna-Christina wedding thing was cute back in the day. I can't believe Paglia is trotting it out again. That woman is such a c-word. She is NOT a feminist.

What I would like to know is- the torch of what?? I would have thought that a feminist author would have more important things to do that peruse the meaning of a staged kiss between two pop stars. But that's just me.

It's the tubes, in the internets, they've made us all crazy. Seriously, I wonder where the sense of self has gone. It's as if we think nothing matters, and by thinking that, it makes it so. Or, it could be argued that the United States has finally learned what postmodern means.

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the whole kiss thing was so staged that the camera barely caught the kiss and cut straight to TJ for his reaction ... i suppose it got what it aimed for: people are (STILL) talking about it