i feel your pain
Larvyprod is discussing Fairfax’s online policy, which seems to have been created by a couple of sub-editors fired from New Idea, locked in Dr Boggly’s House of Biological Abominations and fed on uranium for a couple of weeks.
The LP hive mind’s admiration for Rebecca Traister in Salon reminded me of this item on SMH, from which I extracted the above photo.
Far be it for me to mock a decent Australian woman who is doing a good turn with a cinema full of damaged kids, but the image was taken with a hilarious sense of visual cruelty. I am sure John Stanton knew exactly what he was doing.
The event is a screening of Happy Feet. The kid looks like a napalmed penguin. Nicole is channelling Princess Di, emoting so much psychic repair waves she will age visibly before the camera, while the child is looking for something raw and and wriggling to eat.
It is all an illusion. In a few weeks, the child will look like Ginger Meggs and Nicole will be serving hominy grits at a mansion in Nashville, and fluffing the edges of her gingham frock at her rehabilitated hubby.
The world is a weird place and Paris Hilton ain’t the half of it.
December 19th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
Throwing up before the festive dinner is not something I’z usuallyaccostymied to (’scuse me danglin’ preposition) but dammit young Tiles you’ve put your metaphorical fingers down me throat.
Vacuous is the new black.
December 19th, 2006 at 6:06 pm
… and furthererer, dare I askify, why didn’t our Nick take a leaf (indeed most of the tree) out of Madonna’s book and adopt the little waif.
Why don’t people think about the children?
December 19th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
Sorry, I’m still here (waiting for tonight’s repast of “30 second Sara Lee sushi” to thaw out) but why after having seen that photo do I have this image in mind?
December 19th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
Opps.
December 19th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
Sorry, tried to link a pic and it went seriously pear shaped.
Slinks off and goes christmas shopping. (What greater penance could there be than that?!)
Carry on troops.
December 19th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
Happened to see this on the teeve and it was obvious our Nic was holding the pose for a good long stretch for the cameras.
December 20th, 2006 at 9:11 am
But she’s a saint in the manner of Mother Theresa and Jocasta the Spindly!
December 20th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
[...] I feel your pain – David Tiley on the philanthropy of Nicole Kidman [...]
December 20th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
“napalmed penguin”. LOL
December 21st, 2006 at 12:37 am
The Comments on Online Opinion Australia Forum on Adriana Maxwell’s essay :Why I Hate Nicole Kidman, have been running for TWO YEARS.
December 21st, 2006 at 9:09 am
now if only we could see her photographed with her own kids. its been years.
December 22nd, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Why does this make me think of Julia Roberts’s Tinkerbell (from Hook) with all those lost boys?
December 24th, 2006 at 11:52 am
David – just letting you know that anonymouslefty and boltwatch are not under my control at the moment. Some bastard has hacked me, deleted the blogs from my account and stolen the URLs.
Temporarily I’m at hackedlefty.blogspot.com instead. (I presume you consider this as outrageous an attack as I do.) VERY FRUSTRATED AND ANGRY RIGHT NOW.
December 25th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
The moment I read ’special UN ambassador’ in any article, be it our Nicole, or the Angelina variety I switch off. I guess I wonder how people get these appointments and who makes them.