Celebrity Stupid – don’t you wish your mother was stupid like her?
By Burbanked on Sep 6, 2007 in Celebrities, Celebrity Stupid, Movies | 7,063 views |
It’s not that parents in Hollywood are all stupid. In fact, I’m sure that there are pockets of celebrities here and there who have actually put some thought into how their kids should best be raised in a morally bankrupt and virtually rules-free environment like show business. One never hears tabloid stories, for example, about Danny DeVito’s kids, or Sigourney Weaver’s – so it’s safe to assume that such celebs keep their kids out of the spotlight and are, by available accounts, doing well by them.
But then there are most of the others. The actors and actresses who, by virtue of the desperation borne from fading popularity, decomposing physical beauty and sheer moronitude, have absolutely no clue how to raise their children in the harsh spotlight of fame.
See if you can guess which female celebrity recently based an important career decision on this answer from her offspring:
[Celebrity]: “I asked my 17 year-old son and he was like ‘Okay, Mommy, do it.’”
Find out who’s the new valedictorian at the Dina Lohan-Lynne Spears School of Sensible Mothering, after the jump.
Stacey Dash is today’s Celebrity Stupid!
It’s not really a big deal that the 41-year-old Clueless actress would seek her teenage son’s advice when making certain decisions about her career; what I find so wildly, hilariously wrong about this is that she was asking the boy if she should pose naked in Playboy:
Stacey Dash: “I asked my 17 year-old son and he was like ‘Okay, Mommy, do it.’”
Gosh, is that nice!
Let’s set aside for the moment the fact that, by Dash’s account, a 17-year-old is still calling her “Mommy”. Let’s also try to ignore the fact that Dash’s consideration of being in Playboy smacks of the kind of long-in-the-tooth actress desperation the likes of which we haven’t seen since Dana Delany started appearing in “edgy” Lifetime movies.
But even if we could accept those two facts, is it somehow acceptable that Dash would subject her son to contemplating her as an object of sexual desire? Have we become such an “anything goes” society that she would want her son to place her on that kind of level in his mind? Let’s be honest: the kid is probably contemplating the fact that he’ll become Mr. Bigshot among all of his young, horny friends when he shows up with contact sheets and Polaroid outtakes from the Playboy photo shoot of his mother.
Certainly Dash has the right to earn a living however she’d like, despite how pathetic and needy it might seem to us. But perhaps it’s worthwhile sometimes for us to protect our kids, if only for the time being, from some of life’s uglier truths.
It’s easy to do: each evening when my sons ask me how my day was, I simply tousle their hair with one hand while I cradle a tumbler of Scotch in the other and say, “Terrific, kid. Today your daddy helped corporate America get just a little bit richer.”
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Ray | Sep 6, 2007 | Reply
This would make the kid happy??? Knowing that his buddies are all jacking off over pics of his mother?
Of course, if were him, I’d be more concerned with tha fact that I am jacking off over my mother.
Just kiddin’ … can’t blow one over still pics. I need video with sound and everything thrown in except children and animals (in most cases).
Man I need a shower.
Burbanked | Sep 6, 2007 | Reply
Ray – I’m not sure it would make him happy; my point is that he’s a pretty young kid to understand the greater implications and her assertion that he responded with “okay, mommy – do it!” is pretty asinine.
Because the fact that she’s asking him at all is moronic – but why does she even feel the need to publicize this? Do we think that she’s less desperate because her son agreed? Does posing naked for no reason other than to try and kick-start a slumbering career somehow become legitimized through this cutesy mother/son moment? It’s just all pretty gross.
Ray | Sep 6, 2007 | Reply
Oh, no doubt about that, my friend.
However, I will be renewing my subscription.
Piper | Sep 10, 2007 | Reply
You forgot to talk about how creepy it is that the two would be having that conversation. Did they make out afterwards?
Burbanked | Sep 10, 2007 | Reply
It’s Hollywood, Piper – of COURSE they made out afterwards. And then invited Angelina Jolie and her brother over for tea.
KC | Sep 11, 2007 | Reply
She’s obviously desperate for posing. She’s even more desperate for publicizing what her son said about it. She’s doing what she thinks is necessary to get as much attention as possible. Creepy indeed.
Ray, you take that shower yet?
Norm Schrager | Sep 11, 2007 | Reply
How heartwarming!
I’m thinking that’s not that bad as far as Hollywood-based parental stupidity goes. At least she’s not one of those pathetic sad sacks glomming off their kids successes and talents. Somebody get the Culkin boys on the phone.
So anyway… when the hell did Stacey Dash turn 41?! Where am I?!
-Norm
http://www.meetinthelobby.com
Clint Johnson | Sep 15, 2007 | Reply
How it probably went was:
“I’m thinking of posing for Playboy magazine because it is a legitimate way of showing that I am still in aesthetically acceptable shape to pursue employment in an image obsessed industry… I realize this might bother you and I want your assurance that it wouldn’t be too personally awkward or stigmatizing in your social circle?” to which he replied – “While it isn’t something that I want you to do, I don’t think that it would harm my psyche by engendering an Oedipus complex or harm me in the social circles I frequent. While some socially repressed, small minded and intolerant people may see it as a desperate move, I understand that it is a business decision that will help you financially in the short term and may lead to a greater economic pay off in the next few years.”
I’m a writer so I may have punched up the vocabulary but I feel that is a more likely scenario than the lewd and perverse scenarios that others jumped to.
But then again, maybe it’s just because I’m not working through any mommy issues myself that I didn’t immediately go there.
I thought she looked fantastic in the shoot and her acting is reasonably good- even taking into account the Photoshop work that would have taken place I’d consider casting her in a supporting role in a feature film or television series. That was the purpose of the Playboy photo shoot and over the next year or so we’ll see if it succeeded.
Burbanked | Sep 15, 2007 | Reply
Well, I suppose that I can see your point, Clint, if what you’re suggesting is that I’m a small-minded and intolerant person who is working through mommy issues.
Wait a second. That didn’t quite come out right.
I guess – if this wasn’t clear – that I find it odd that a woman would ask her 17-year-old son if she should pose naked for the prurient interests of men. Shouldn’t she be able to make this decision 1) on her own and 2) with confidence that SHE knows what’s best for his welfare? Sure, there are certainly career issues at work here, but the kid doesn’t understand that, and he likely won’t for a handful of years.
And I suppose you’re right that these things can lead to a career resurgence. Just ask Robin Givens, Erika Eleniak, Darva Conger, “Chyna”, Belinda Carlisle, Dedee Pfeiffer, Tiffany, Kristy Swanson and Tia Carrere.
Wait a second. Yeah, that argument doesn’t quite work, either.