paula zahn just said

[MoseyWalker]

we live in a country where movie stars are role models for people?

I was wondering if anyone else agrees with that statement.

I personally have never known anyone, not one person, who views any movie star as a "role model". Sure, I look at them generally as maybe good people who help others, or selfish shits, but role models?

Have you?

[Fridays Child]

1. Maybe for aspiring actors and actresses...

Hmm...Paula?

[Cha]

2. They seem to be like

the American Royals but I'd sure rather be like Sandra Bullock than hillary.

Or Brad Pitt than bush.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Says a second-rate bimbo journalist.

[shaniqua6392]

4. I look at them as just plain human beings.

Their job/career is acting. They are not perfect just like the rest of us. The media makes a tremendous amount of money off of them. They are definitely not role models.

[napi21]

5. Not that I know of! Hell, I don't even pay any attention to most of them.

I have met people who are adicted to knowing who's doing what and all the scandal stuff, but nobody who ever admires any of them.

I think anyone who say that is living in the past. There was a time when kids used to look at "the Lone Ranger", or John Wayne as an idol, and I guess that's kinda like a role model, but no more.

[Cleita]

6. Since she is in front of the camera a lot, is she a role model?

Does she want to inspire girls to be a journalist just like her?

*filing my fingernails now*

[KingFlorez]

7. Yes, people do view them as role models

People constantly trying to emulate what they see they're favorite star do, especially younger people.

[bronxiteforever]

8. I would like to "role play" with Scarlett Johansson

:evilgrin:

[MoseyWalker]

9. ha ha!

Great answer! Funny

:toast:

[TomInTib]

10. I live in a small town with a lot of celebrities (movie, TV, music).

In line at the grocery store, everyone is the same.

We sit on Main Street and talk about the world and never get a second glance from the locals.

And then come the tourists and all the gawking.

Quite amusing, actually.

[FloridaPat]

11. Who else is there?

[AlamoDemoc]

12. Paula used to be the Six o'clock news anchor for WCVB Channel 5

of Boston. Even then she was no news anchor. She was always an airhead.

[blonndee]

14. She's also Faux's sloppy seconds.

Blech!

[blonndee]

13. Yes, I agree that's the case for a lot of people, unfortunately.

Especially a lot of younger people, but even some older folks. I wouldn't say that it's always a conscious thing, though. Usually people don't like to admit that they want to be like "the stars."

[woodsprite]

15. Well, they're better role models than our politicians. n/t

[Metta]

16. Wrong. Celebrities are our obsessions. Denotes small lives, imho.

I think anyone who has a world view based on the priorities of the people of the world couldn't care less about celebrities. They're a diversion, at best, mental candy.

[RadiDem]

17. Well - Michael Moore is one of my role models

He's an actor

kind of

[QuestionAll...]

18. unless a movie star has progressive opinions..

we all remember that don't we.

Paula evidently doesn't.

and personally, no, never role modeled a movie star or sports figure - that's just sad.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

19. Sure..

Like some nut on a call-in teee-veee show some time ago said John Wayne was a great soldier :banghead:

[cynatnite]

20. There are a few I admire and respect...

I think this is a gross mischaracterization, too.

[tanyev]

21. Guess that tells us who Paula's role models are.

Can't say I'm surprised.

[MazeRat7]

22. Paula is practicing "Truthiness"... as usual.

[Common Sense Party]

23. Role models? People who make a living by merely saying

words that someone else wrote?

Nah.

They're role players, not role models.

I could care less what Mel Gibson, Susan Sarandon, etc. say or do in their own lives.

[ChristianLibrul]

24. She's right

Musicians, wrestlers, athletes, and all other celebrities also serve as role models for people who don't have real ones to look up to. It's been that way for generations.

[RB TexLa]

25. No more a role model than strippers or waiters or any entertainer

[Protagoras]

26. Sure lots who think that the characters they play

are who they actually are. We are a shallow, media obsessed culture. It may not be right but it's so.