Starlets: Media Moguls Or Greedy Bitches?

There is a reason why pro-football players aren’t actors. The same reason why actors aren’t pro-football players.

By CC Staff

There is a reason we come into this nice, little world, with…gifts. And unless you’re some SUPER HUMAN FREAK, you don’t tend to have gifts that cross into a million different categories.

So when Vanessa Minnillo, used-to-be MTV VJ and super babe girlfriend to Nick Lachey, Jessica Simpson’s former husband, announces she is making, “a film.“, I want to tell her to grab a microphone, bust out an ab-roller, do her hair, tell me what the number one video of the week is, and then-shut up.

I get that a job like VJing is, to most, a platform to a “greater success.” But when was the last time a VJ came out with an Oscar winning, or even bearable film that didn’t go straight to DVD? I don’t think ever? Or didn’t join some cheesy teen sitcom (One Tree Hill- Hilarie Burton)?

Come to think of it, its not just VJ’s who are overextending themselves, Hollywood in general is getting ridiculously greedy.

It isn’t just enough to be an actor with films and tv shows, now it’s all…I’d like to have a clothing line! Then when designing gets tiring, and Wal*Mart and Target have been dominated, “I’ve always liked perfume, maybe I’ll make my own?!“

Okay, people. There are designers because they were born to design, Actors because they have to ACT, Painters because they just have to paint, and Writers because they were born to WRITE. Just because you’re good at one thing doesn’t mean you’ll instantly be the master of all things creative.

So no, I don’t want to buy your wine, your earrings, your notebooks or–your album.

What is it with this whole generation who thinks just because they can buy recording programs and a decent microphone, they’re suddenly…producers? No, you’re a DUDE, WITH A BEATMAKER.

Just because you have a mic, doesn’t mean you can sing. Just because you have the outlet to create a childrens clothing line, doesn’t make you qualified to do so, i.e.: Hilary Duff, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Miley Cyrus??? Really, ladies, I know you aren’t in there sketching cropped jackets for five year olds all yourself. Please.

So, though there are the few who manage to dominate many genres of entertainment, and do it well, there are FEW who do it WELL. Madonna, does it well. But Madonna, is an alien.

So please, Hollywood, for the sake of production companies everywhere, for the sake of your agents’ jobs, for the sake of your own self-worth…stop double dipping and stick to what you know.