someone please tell me how hollywood went from elegance like this …to britney spears
(Audrey Hepburn)
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Very simple. Hollywood found out sleaze and trash is cheaper and easier. And we eat it up.
I was gonna say, consumers tell the industry what they want and the industry delivers.
Actually, there was quite a lot of drugs, booze and misbehavior during this period. They just did a better job of hiding it (though even the Greats had their share of shock value and scandal). Now it’s out in the open for everyone to see. :/
AMEN!!!
Britney Spears isn’t Hollywood, she’s music.
Paris Hilton, on the other hand…
She’s been acting, which moves her into Hollyweird–barely
Are you kidding me? Watch that movie again, it is the most racist piece of trash. Hollywood has come a long way. And just how many movies is Britney Spears actually in? One?
Absolutely. I was actually shocked the first time I saw Mickey-Rooney-as-Mr.-Yunioshi’s “performance”. Ugh.
What are talking about? Today’s Hollywood spouts out way more racism and sexism than ever before! It is just they are attacking different races and different gender now.
Have you seen the movie? Not only the rascist bit–but Holly Golightly, the character Miss Hepburn was playing, was basically a high-class whore. She went out with men and got her meals paid for and jewelry, and when she “went to the powder room” they gave her some cash.
I do agree, however, that Audrey Hepburn as a person was far more classy than Miss Spears. You’d never catch Audrey showing her private bits while out shopping.
How is that different from “Sex and the city”?
But we are talking about different things here. scolil said “Hollywood has come a long way”. I am saying it has not! I am not arguing that Hepburn’s character in this particular movie was bad.
Women like Audrey Hepburn are *born* knowing how to get out of a car without showing your knickers.
Not wearing a micro-mini ever makes that effortless, though.
You have got to be kidding me. If “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is your definition of “racist piece of trash,” you need to do some soul-searching. That is some serious born-victim-mentality faux outrage. Regardless if it’s Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, or whatever other skank-of-the-week you wish, the point is valid.
Ok – check out this scene and tell me if this is racist or not.
Someone commenting about that clip said it well enough, so I’ll just cut and paste:
“Some people ought to calm down and take things in their context and time period.
Also, that film was made long before the concept of PC. That was a time when Jews made careers based on making fun of themselves. Too serious today.”
That isn’t a good example because we still do. Though, yes, I follow.
Generally speaking, little in Hollywood has changed but the fashions and what kind of language you can shoehorn into an R rating. There is still a star machine, there are still safe and unsafe stereotypes, and there are still more mature male stars than mature female stars.
“There’s no business like show business” isn’t particularly an accolade
you are an idiot. the so-called asian guy has five minutes aleast. and hollywood has come no where. why do black people die first or aways die in horror moives.
Bravo! Perfect!
As my husband said, “Sign of the times,”… and our times are just pathetic.
“Kids these days and their fancy gizmos and their rollershoes and their sleezy actresses and their newfangled phones and their…”
The generation before you thought your generation was trashy too. It’s because of the generation filter that lets all the good stuff through and forgets the mountains of crap that nobody wanted to keep. It makes the past look better.
I agree with scolil. Maybe the clothing is skimpier in Hollywood, but that just shows off all the different colors of skin better. ^_^
Then explain it too me because I’m only 17 and I find Hollywood to be deplorable… -.-
It makes me sad… I loved the glamour of Hollywood from her time… now I’m like “Pfft… >.> Hollywood isn’t part of my state I swear!”
Ish for the same reason. My college bud somehow thinks that only good movies were made before 1990. B-movies were total flukes (literally, haha!); they rarely happened, but thank goodness for them so future gens could have their laughs.
I’m not saying you can’t like Hollywood glam better than Pop culture; I am saying that one needs to see it as a difference in taste rather than one generation being “better” than the other…
whatever. britney isn’t hollywood, but we have lost some class. paris hilton doesn’t count, she’s only been in one terrible movie, too.
Yes, but on the plus side, her character does get killed in it.
I’ve gotta agree. Britney Spears is crap in my garbage disposal. Hollywood sleaze couldn’t act their way out of wet paper bag and they seriously need to bring sexy back (I’m talkin’ old Hollywood glamor)
Hollywood represents the majority of what consumers want.
That is a SAD realization.
The entertainment industry now dictates what the public wants especially in music.
“We’re playing your favorite songs”
I know. I was there.
please. Old hollywood was just as scandalous, if not more scandalous, then now. they just hid it better bc the studios had contracts with photo agencies. Take Judy Garland. She was pretty crazy but noone really knew until after the fact. basically, nothing has changed.
True. True. Where’s the Audrey Hepburns and Grace Kellys of today? On the other hand – maybe, in 50 years, people will look back on Crossroads and think, “why don’t they make movies like this anymore?” Then they’ll watch it and remember why.
The 2008 analogue to Audrey Hepburn isn’t Britney Spears; it’s Natalie Portman. Apples and oranges.
Crossroads is great, man! You’ll laugh (at all the times they were trying to be serious, and at the thought that Taryn Manning’s character wanted to be a singer), and you’ll cry (for Dan Akroyd’s career).
once upon a time Audrey Hepburn was also a “flavor of the moment.” i mean, choosing her over Julie Andrews for the role of Eliza in “My Fair Lady” was a horrible decision but it brought in the $$ from movie goers…
While many old Hollywood stars had skeletons in their closets, others did not. Fred Astaire, Gregory Peck, Cary Grant, and Audrey Hepburn were all-around class acts. Especially Audrey. She worked very, very hard for her success. She tried to convince Jack Warner to cast Julie Andrews and only took the role when she was told it was her or Liz Taylor.
Besides being highly successful, Audrey was very professional. She was always on time, always knew her lines, and always made every effort to get along with not only her costars but with every member of the cast & crew. She broke her back and miscarried after an accident on the set of “The Unforgiven”. Guess what, she didn’t sue!
All of this pales in comparison to her work for UNICEF and various other charities throughout her life. As she herself summed it up, “It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second.”
So what have Paris, Britney, Jennifer, or that godawful Tila Tequila done for humanity today?
I don’t know about the others, but Paris is heavily involved in work with the Make-A-Wish foundation, the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and is organizing the Paris Hilton Charity Fund to be an overall granting agency to various groups that benefit children.
oh please. all Paris and the other “celebutards “care about is the spotlight. they could care less about any foundation using their name for publicity
Agreed. As Gwyneth Paltrow once said, “What’s the use of doing something good if no one’s there to notice?”
Eeediot.
Calm down McFandom, did I say anything bad about her? No. The negativity in my comment was directed at Hollywood. Maybe a little bitterness because I’ll never get to see Julie Andrews in the part since it was never recorded (in full) but that’s not Hepburn’s fault. Cute talented actress, caring woman, did some great stuff but you can’t deny that some of her parts were because she was really popular with the masses, a “flavor of the moment.” Lots of great actors and actresses got screwed and so many wonderful stories ruined by Hollywood because of that and it was the only pertinent example I could give at that moment. Chill, don’t make me come back and fishslap you. :p
“So what have Paris, Britney, Jennifer, or that godawful Tila Tequila done for humanity today?”
I don’t know about them, specifically, but Angelina Jolie and Drew Barrymore have both contributed a lot of time, effort, and money to various charitable and humanitarian causes. Not everybody is in the bottom one percent.
If I remember right, Julie Andrews, who played Eliza Doolittle in the Broadway show, was passed over for the film version of “My Fair Lady” because she was at that time a stage actress with no movie experience. The studio felt that casting an unknown opposite Rex Harrison in a big-budget movie was not a wise choice.
I’m kinda glad they ended up with Hepburn though; even as a very young woman Andrews had an insanely enormous air of sophistication about her that even her copious acting skills had a hard time getting around. Not that Hepburn wasn’t an insanely elegant and complex woman herself mind you.
Ok. Many of the old Hollywood stars had skeletons in their closets. But there were also many genuinely wonderful people. Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, and Cary Grant were all class acts. Audrey Hepburn worked very, very hard for her success. She tried to get Jack Warner to cast Julie Andrews for My Fair Lady and only took the role when Warner told her it was her or Liz Taylor. Heck, the woman won an Emmy, Golden Globe, Oscar, and multiple BAFTA awards. All of the above pales in comparison to her work for UNICEF.
Frankly, anyone who can play a bisexual call girl and make it look amazing deserves every modicum of respect.
So what have Paris, Britney, and that godawful Tila Tequila done for humanity today?
/something of a Hepburn fan
//am 21 and hate most of the current Hollywood crowd.
Old Hollywood wasn’t any better than new Hollywood. Both suck equally.
Which end of that gap do you think is closer to the average American life? If you want fairy tails, there are plenty out there. Hell, the Hepburn sisters were crazy in real life too, but the world didn’t want to see that back then. This is like people thinking back to the “Good old days” of the Fifties, when there was seggregation and the cold war and you could be as bigoted as you wanted.
Well, we’ve apparently returned to the Depression, if that counts for anything.
What Hepburn sisters would you be referring to? Audrey and Katharine weren’t even related.
Audrey’s name wasn’t even Hepburn. Well, not at first. Audrey Kathleen Ruston.
You do know that “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is about a gold-digging woman who uses her looks in order to get men to buy her things, makes money by passing coded messages to a mob boss, and agrees to marry a man she doesn’t love in order to have a more secure life than that of a “kept woman,” right? And that George Peppard’s character is a giggilo? Ah, yes. The great “family values” of yesteryear!
And this is what LG is promoting when they use scenes from this movie to sell their phones on this side of the Pacific. I wonder if the marketing staff had any clue. Come to think of it, the American staff probably did, because I think the Audrey Hepburn commercials never made it to America.
two words….anal sex!
There was no difference in the way people lived back then as opposed to now. Celebrities still had their share of scandels, however the press never reported on it. I don’t know if it was because it wouldn’t have made them money or if it was because they believed in privacy. I mean, no one knew FDR was crippled from Polio until like, after he was out of office or something XD Personally I wish there was a bit more tact with reporters now a days. At times it gets a bit ridiculous. “OMG Britney SNEEZED while holding one of her KIDS~!!!11″ WHO CARES?! And most of the time the stuff that is reported on, while messed up, doesn’t really seem to be something that sharing with the entire population of America will help that person improve their life. It just seems to bring them more grief…
no it’s how people look, she looks wholesome (there is substance to her, she looks healthy) so she makes me bite my lip a bit. Britany spears just makes me want to throw up
Wouldn’t it make more sense to compare her to someone like Nicole Kidman? Classy still exists.
I really preferred the old days when Hollyweird kept their dirty laundry in the laundry room or closet or wherever. Now it’s anything goes. There’s no mystery (except why on earth anyone finds this at all interesting). Remember that song about 20 years ago called ‘Dirty Laundry’? Same ol’, same ol’.
20 years ago. Damn I’m old
*whispers* I think it’s a rhetorical question…
*walks away*
it’s DISNEY’s fault!
They’re the ones bringing in the trashy talent and cramming them down our kid’s throats.
Hint. Kids don’t have money; adults do. If you as the parent refuse to buy the Disney stuff, your kids won’t have it.
Yep- it’s just a pity that nobody has respect for the dead anymore- LG is using a B&W version of that shot and various other Audrey Hepburn things to promote their new cellphones where I live. Then again, it says something when they’d rather use a dead lady than some celebrity that’s actually alive.
To be fair, Holly Golightly *is* essentially a whore, but point taken.
She is worse than a whore, she is a con artist. At least whores deliver what people pay for, she takes the cash and doesn’t deliver.
ahhh…..audrey…..when things were good.
I’m going with because we ask for it. Keep in mind we are just as bigoted as we were then, but back then we just swept those we were bigoted against into ghettos and the like, now we’re actually forced to *gasp* live openly with them. The reaction to this has been an exponential increase in how much we look into the lives of others so we can identify the “filth” around us, real and imagined, and hope that legitimate-seeming ridicule will make them stay away by choice.
Audrey = class act
Britney = class action law suit
Sometimes that’s one of the things money can do….
It is so true. So very true. This is better than what people are pulling out. I don’t care if the movie stunk, it still is better.
yeah, the sleaze was behind the scenes back when audrey was making movies…
hollywod is just plain STUPID. I DONT CARE WUT U SAY, THEY ONLY HAVE LIKE 6 GOOD MOVIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see women like Jodie Foster, Meryl Streep, even Angelina Jolie and I get a glimpse of Audrey. When I see Marylin Monroe, Pamela Anderson, Britney or Paris, all those sex bombs, I understand the market the movies they appear in is simply different. Some actresses enjoy a classy lifestyle and others enjoy the sex stardom (Maria Carrey) and are enjoying their rollercoaster just the same. I had my time where Pamela was my top actress (I was 18) but now (34), I’ve moved other styles of movies. The movie market is too segmented for us to make comments and compare the uncomparable. BTW what did you think of ‘Bittersweet Life’? Thank god there’s more out there than Hollywood.