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The View on/of Miley Cyrus- UPDATED, Now With More Ellen!

Whit Honea — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:26:00 GMT

Really? We're still talking about Miley Cyrus posing seemingly topless for Annie Leibovitz on the cover of Vanity Fair? Seems like Jamie Lee Curtis said it best when she alluded to the fact that there are actual problems in the world that should have our attention. Even Rosie O'Donnell is making sense, which may be one of the problems Jamie Lee was alluding to. Frightening.

Not to be outdone by every other person with eyes and an internet connection the ladies of The View offered up their two cents and some change on the matter. The video is below. Brace yourself.

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Miley Cyrus' Parents are to Blame: The World According to Jamie Lee Curtis

Whit Honea — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:49:00 GMT

Jamie Lee Curtis knows a thing or two about posing topless. Of course the uproar over her doing so was that it was for the cover of the AARP magazine, and apparently she's too old for such frivolity. Miley Cyrus, at 15, posed pseudo-topless for Vanity Fair. She's too young.

Americans like our topless models in the 18 - 40 range.

Jamie Lee Curtis is laying the blame on Miley's parents. That isn't to say that Annie Leibovitz didn't go a bit far in her attempt at art, and yes, Miley should have realized that her posing for the pictures in question would cause her career some unwanted criticism. They deserve their share of the responsibility.

People are also bitching about Disney to the point that they felt the need to comment. Disney has nothing to do with it. That's like Nerve Media being blamed for me posing for those awkward photos last weekend. Hey, I needed the money. I didn't call Nerve to okay it, and Disney didn't have any say in Miley's spread.

But I digress. Here's what Jamie Lee Curtis wrote in The Huffington Post:

I woke up this morning concerned about the world food shortage and Korean defectors attempting self immolation in protest of Beijing and was astonished at the amount of attention a young woman named Miley Cyrus was getting for a topless, or shall I say backless, photograph in Vanity Fair.

Just to connect the dots, I too have weathered a recent bout of hysteria over a supposed topless, or shall I say strapless, photograph in a magazine. In my case it was an understanding that the photo in question be shoulders up regardless if I was wearing a suit of armor, chastity belt, wet suit, strapless bra or nothing. It is, was and will always be irrelevant and only became an issue when it was publicized as "topless". All the nipple loving/leering people wanted to know...was it true? Kids I know asked their parents and me if I had posed topless. Saturday Night Live in a funny parody alluded to it as well as the efficacy of Activia yogurt and we all had a good laugh and it sold magazines and it is/was over. Now this. (Video Below)

Apparently young Ms. Cyrus has apologized for something she was told would be artistic and now feels embarrassed about. I feel for her. Of course she is embarrassed. She is a young girl. She shouldn't have to deal with any of this. I don't feel that she was duped. I know the integrity of Ms. Liebovitz and the magazine and I know there were people present at the shoot that should have been looking out to make sure that this didn't happen. In the offending photo she looks tousled and soft and vulnerable and yes...even sexy. She is fifteen after all, and the word sex is starting to come up. I seem to remember a fourteen/fifteen year old Brooke Shields commenting that nothing came between her and her Calvins. There would be no problem if Ms. Cyrus doesn't represent something that is counterintuitive to that image.

In the article in the New York Times Business Section, a Disney executive is quoted, saying "For Miley Cyrus to be a 'good girl' is now a business decision for her. Parents have invested in her godliness. If she violates that trust, she won't get it back." In the world of constant scrutiny how can a young person not violate this and develop a mind, body and spirit of their own? Look at the '50s and the idols of that time. Many gay men with beards...sham marriages. Young stars trying out their sexuality secretly. My own mother (pre-show business) was married at 14 to be able to explore her own passions.

Today's generation of performers have had to navigate the treacherous shoals of adolescence in full frontal viewberty [sic] of the peering voyeurism of the media and it's voyeuristic participants. We have watched them as they stumble out of the safety of childhood, not that being a professional actor as a child is safe, but that is another blog, into the glare of celebrity, rehab, prison, teen pregnancy and now this, a backless shot of a young girl. It was called "artistic'. If we keep a young person's natural sexuality in check during their performing years what happens to it? It has to come out. Daniel Radcliffe is starring in Equus which includes nudity and parodied his natural urges (hilariously) on Ricky Gervais' EXTRAS. He has had to carry the weight and morals of Harry Potter and Warner Brothers and can now, as Harry has grown up and the series is nearing its end, tread lightly into adult fare and explore his art.

When these young people get all dressed up for award show red-carpet events don't we all comment how beautiful, stunning and grown-up they look in their strapless/backless dresses and heels and tousled hair? None of this is new. None of this should be news. But it is news because it is a business. It is all Business. It is called Show Business. Show Abyss-ness! I call it Show-OFF Business. You throw a child into the jaws of a business and they will get eaten.

I know how Miley feels. I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless "scandal" and the subsequent parodies, but I am an adult woman. I protected myself during the shoot and I can take the heat. I only wish that her guardians had protected her.

Kevin Costner's Got a New Kid and the AARP Cover. Gross.

BadKitty — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:33:00 GMT

With the excellent title "Kevin Can Wait" and creepy soul patch (called a "jazz spot" in the article, gag), Kevin is the cover story of this month's AARP magazine. Yes, AARP as in retired people and senior discounts. But wait, Kevin's only 53, he just seems like he's in his 70s. And while his movies haven't done much box office lately, he doesn't qualify as retired yet.

Still, he is sort of old to be a baby daddy. Again. Kevin has three kids (ages 23, 21 and 19) from his first marriage plus a 10 year old with a former girlfriend. Costner graciously acknowledged his fourth child...after a blood test (so gallant!) On May 6th he welcomed his fifth child, Cayden, with second wife Christine Baumgartner. This accomplished lady, both a model and handbag designer, at the tender age of 33 is a mere two decades years younger than Kev. You may remember their super, uh, Colorado-ish wedding in 2004, which was covered by the best publications, like People. It was also reviewed by horoscope analysis site Cosmitech who warned that the signs were not auspicious for their union. It turns out, they may be right.

You see, since the wedding, Kevin's been the rumored answer to blind items like this one from the UK Daily Mirror that came out around the time they were on their golfing honeymoon in Scotland:

A Hollywood superstar performed a sex act on himself while enjoying a massage, a hotel worker has claimed. The American A-list actor is said to have dropped his towel and exposed himself to the stunned masseuse. The woman claimed he then carried out the "disgusting" act in front of her in the hotel spa. The star - who cannot be named for legal reasons - was on a golfing holiday with his wife and staying at the Old Course Hotel in St Andrews, Scotland.

And this one from the NY Daily News:

Which married, massage therapist-loving actor had to pay a guy off on the set of his current film after he got a little too touchy-feely?

And this one from Crazy Days and Nights:

This married A-list movie actor told his wife he needed to relax and so was going out to Palm Springs to play some golf. He showed up at the golf course. He went inside the pro-shop and gave the head pro a few hundred dollars and said that if his wife called to tell her that the actor was out on the course and no cell phones are allowed there. Then he was to call the actor's cell phone and tell him the wife called. The actor then left the pro shop with a woman who was not dressed to play golf and drove away. Now it's possible this twosome played golf somewhere else, but I think he was trying to put his ball into another cup if you know what I mean.

I'm not saying he's a cheater or a perv. I'm not even saying he's A-List. However, the love of golf and actorly sense of lookit-me! entitlement, combined with a history of multiple baby mommas opens up the possibility that Kevin could be the aging playboy they're talking about.

Just in case, consider this a public service announcement. Even though Costner is no Eddie Murphy, remember, he may have a few more kids in him. And God knows what else on him. Ladies, use protection!

Photo credit: Andrew Eccles