Oscar night unleashes a bouquet of beautiful people dressed in colorful, gorgeous gowns (and suits) strutting gracefully down the red carpet. This is the creme-de-la-creme of movie world, and we all love to watch.
My favorite gowns and my less-than-favorite gowns reflect my taste, not the wearers of such finery, so I am always taken back when critics decide to ridicule and demean certain gowns and the people wearing the gowns that they don’t like.
Who cares what Stephen Whitty likes or doesn’t? Who is Stephen Whitty anyhow? Perhaps he is someone who thinks his ridicule is funny? Maybe he’s a nice guy being paid to make outrageous comments so people will read the paper--like people having to look at a car crash?
Monday’s Star Ledger read “We’re not sure whose wallpaper died to make this dress, but the floral-bling-on-black gown did the curvaceous Beyonce no favors.” Is that funny? Not to me it isn’t. And I’m certain it would be hurtful for Beyonce to read.
Writer, Stephen Whitty, goes on to debase others: “What Miley Cyrus wore wasn’t so much a dress as a float in the Rose Bowl parade. We assume her hair looked like that because no stylist could reach far enough past the layered hoop skirts to reach her head.” OUCH!
“Poor Amanda Seyfried . . . looked like somebody’s long-forgotten Christmas present.” That happened to be one of my favorite gowns, but who am I to judge?
“A bath sheet? Actually Jessica Biel wore a satin gown by Prada, but the overall effect was more towel-rack than terrific.”
I can almost understand when a person is being paid to be unkind, but I would imagine that money is costly to the individual being paid. If the unkind words were meant to be humorous, I wonder if Beyonce, Miley, Amanda, and Jessica would agree.
It is tough to justify lack of civility in any circumstance. Maybe celebrities are used to this type of unkindness but I subscribe to Maya Anglou philosophy, "People may not remember what you did or what you said but they will always remember how you made them feel," and that’s the price the Stephen Whitty’s of the world pay--hurting others for a living! In the long run, that's a hefty price to pay.
