ooohhhhh man…ok, NOW i WILL go and pitch up. The only credit i can give her is for not posing naked. which is really surprising for her. i’d rather have KK play mother theresa. i have to wonder what people are smoking when they make up cast lists. i eman just because she hasn’t posed nude does NOT mean she should be mother teresa. also says alot about society. there are lots of people who havn’t posed for playboy, but have far more credit to be mother theresa. how about melissa joan hart, or something. ooohh mannn.

exactly. although i did love this line…. The director said he was impressed when he read a report sometime ago in which the hotel heiress said she had refused to pose nude in Playboy magazine and decided then to shortlist her.

he would be even more impressed if he got his hands on 1 night in Paris.

anyway, just found the story mildly amusing.

Amusing! But it smacks of a PR stunt. It didn’t say our modern-day Madonna was interested, only that the director contacted her agent (sending an unsolicited email qualifies).

Well known Malayalam director T. Rajeevnath, scouting for a suitable actress to play the title role in his film on Nobel Peace laureate Mother Teresa, has sent feelers to American actress Paris Hilton. “My agents in California have contacted Paris Hilton,” Rajeevnath told IANS. The director said he was impressed when he read a report sometime ago in which the hotel heiress said she had refused to pose nude in Playboy magazine and decided then to shortlist her. Link

ok. cool.

I meant, like children too small to understand instructions.

lol…well, then in that case, true, true. lol.

hhmm..in my family, i was expected to constantly be a good person.

I meant, like children too small to understand instructions.

Pattie – Agree with Jai on the Shaheed-e-Mohabbat recommendation – I was initially pissed off after wathching Gadar but enjoyed Shaheed-e-Mohabbat.

lmao…..was there a good reason for his pugh and almsot dhari to a magic trick? that’s just too wierd. what were they thinking, no one would notice? i will indeed have to watch shaheed.

Growing up is about deliberately and constantly trying to be a good person. We don’t expect small children to do that at all. We expect teenagers to do it a lot more. We consider someone an adult when they have internalized and made a habit of the process. Because this is such a frightfully important set of expectations

hhmm..in my family, i was expected to constantly be a good person. it was highly emphasized. took me about two decades to realise there was good reason for it. though i gotta say, i think i was a better kid than i was teen for awhile. or at least preteen. i was a horrid preteen.

you have brought up many good points. and basically, indeed, what you have said here – It seems what you all are really down on is insincerity, cheap smiles, and the state of being on positivity auto-pilot for the sake of seeming attractive. (or at least attarctive in a sexual founded nature) is the point.

thought i must also add note that yes, certain tags we give are indeed unfair in some tenses, yet in others remarkably polite as compared to their actions. and, also, some people do it to themselves , like this whole ‘i’m sista bitch queen diva’ or ‘mad motha* beep* nigga’. anybody who has respect for nayone, be it themselves and/or others would never refer to others as bitches and niggas, because no matter how one tries to cover it up with verbonics, the words mean what they always have, and just because you replace an ‘er’ with an ‘a’, does not make such less offensive, yet people do it, and think it’s great. which doesn’t excuse it.

Plus, I’m a little down on the whole concept of attributing character value to intelligence. also, not everyone has character value attributed to intellegence, but for some people, that’s all they’ve got. look at paris hilton. and it seems that some people want this to be, they want their character value to be attributed to their intellegence, which is very sad. these same people also prefer to be seen for how much they can show off physically.

Why do we value grown-upness? Well, one thing–the more relevant thing here–is that we prize sexual maturity and are justifiably upset/repulsed by sexual immaturity being set up as an object of desire. But I’m trying to tease apart the sexual appreciation and the total appreciation of a person here.

that’s again the issue. people tend to see sexual apreciation and not total appreciation. or they confuse the two.

I recalling some years back having heard a speech therapist on television claiming that, according to cross-cultural research, the pitch of women’s speaking voices is correlated with the status that women are granted in their cultural environment (i.e., lower status = higher pitch). The theory is that women expect to be taken ‘less seriously’ in these societies, and therefore respond by not ‘giving weight’ to their own voices in a way that might seem to challenge male authority (and thereby avoiding conflict/sanctions with males). It seemed a rather logical explanation to me.

the high pitch/class thing is another society contrived idea, and though there is some base to it, i know many people of all walks of life who have all sorts of pitches. but if you wnat to talk natural pitch, ove rthe past couple decades, there have been more and more nasily, high pithced people, men and women alike, who either sound stoned or like they’ve been sucking helium balloons. and it seems that these high pithces are not, in fact, natural ranges, but something that has been leanred and copied. take for instance when beavis and butthead were popular, how many guys immitated them, and still do. that was definately not a natural range going on there.

but that’s the way the cookie crumbles.

totally true

Pattie – Agree with Jai on the Shaheed-e-Mohabbat recommendation – I was initially pissed off after wathching Gadar but enjoyed Shaheed-e-Mohabbat.