Vanessa Hudgens Wasn’t Looking To Be Famous
Vanessa Hudgens Wasn’t Looking To Be Famous
She’s one of the most recognizable singer/actresses of the up and coming generation in Hollywood, but Vanessa Hudgens says she never meant for it to be this way.
The High School Musical hottie confesses that the whole fame and fortune thing was never a part of her original plan. She told press, “I became an actress and started singing and dancing because I truly loved it. I did not want to be a celebrity. … I think fame is just something that comes along when you are in something that is such a success.”
And along with celebrity comes other undesirable side-effects. “People become jaded and infatuated with Hollywood. I think it happens to a lot of celebrities, and it messes with their head.”
If not for HSM, Hudgens says she may have taken a more Kelly Clarkson route. “I was 15 at the time … and you had to be 16 to audition. So I thought, ‘One more year.’ Then, when I turned 16, High School Musical came along and I got to do it. So I thought I’d skip on American Idol.”
Ashley Tisdale’s Curl Straightening Day
Ashley Tisdale’s Curl Straightening Day
While fame and fortune are the epitome of success for celebrities, it all comes at a cost. And Ashley Tisdale found out first hand yesterday that being Hollywood’s “IT” girl comes with its downfalls.
Accompanied by her mother Lisa, the “High School Musical” hottie was hounded by paparazzi as she left the Chris McMillan Salon in Beverly Hills, California. Things got so bad that she even needed the help of a friend to make it to her car.
Sporting a fabulous straight coif, a screen-printed t-shirt, jeans, and a pair of Roman Sandals, Ashley looked a bit bewildered by the overwhelming shutterbug presence.
Prior to her stop at the beauty shop, Tisdale went shopping at Kitson on Robertson Boulevard in West Hollywood. She even signed autographs and posed for pictures with her fans. What a gal!
Jen and John Chill with Courteney Cox
Jen and John Chill with Courteney Cox
This guy has it all…Grammy Awards, fame and fortune, and one of the hottest girlfriends in the world. And John Mayer, courtesy of his sweetie Jennifer Aniston, got to hang out with Courteney Cox over the weekend.
The “Break-Up” actress took her “Waiting for the World to Change” singer beau over to Cox’s private gated beach home in Malibu, California yesterday for some R&R.
The perfect twosome was spotted pulling into the Cox/Arquette residence in Mayer’s Porsche Cayenne Turbo SUV and spent the afternoon with Courteney and David, showing plenty of PDA throughout the visit.
And you know what this means… John must really be winning Miss Aniston over if she’s already taking him around to meet her BFFs… could it be more than a fling?
The Simpsons: Any Given Sundance - VIDEO
(S19E18)”No more Simpsons’ movies! One is enough.” — Marge Simpson
Add Utah to the list of states that the Simpsons have visited since the series began. And, no, they weren’t there for some wacky episode about Homer being married to multiple women. They were at the Sundance Film Festival, thanks to Lisa and her wonderful documentary about the family she lives with.
Wonderful to the visitors of the festival, that is. For her family it was a bit humiliating — as much of Lisa’s artistic work is. Being such a free spirit Lisa doesn’t think too much of the consequences she wreaks when the creates these various projects. Which is weird coming from someone as smart as her. Then again, she’s only 8-years-old. So, should we really be expecting more from her?
Probably not. We tend to forget that she’s only 8-years-old because of how worldly she can be. Therefore, she sometimes neglects to respect the feelings of those around her in exchange for fame and the belief that others will be changed by what she has created. As mentioned a few weeks ago during another Lisa-centric episode of The Simpsons, this is Lisa’s main weakness. When her brain gets clouded by the prospect of fame and fortune, all of the intelligence seems to be leeched away and replaced by a primal urge to become more and more successful, more and more famous.
A bit too deep for a primetime cartoon? Perhaps, but there isn’t much more to talk about in this so-so episode. It was just, for lack of a better word, there. It had a few good moments, and the story was okay, but it just had the feeling of one of those installments where you look up and the show is over. And, the bad thing is you really don’t remember what happened.
Maybe it was the sameness that this installment of The Simpsons had to other past episodes (other than the trip to Sundance, that is). It started with a scene that wasn’t really connected to the main plot of the story until a few minutes in. Other than highlighting the vast supporting cast of The Simpsons there really wasn’t much to the tailgate other than when Lisa decided to film some of the events taking place in the stadium parking lot. Frankly, that documentary would have been better suited for Sundance then her family film was. Then again, this is all a cartoon and the opinions expressed here are absolutely, totally moot.
If anything, this week’s installment gave us a chance to meet up with Superintendent Chalmers and and Principal Skinner once again. Thinking about this, it seems like both of these men have been at the center of Lisa’s life for quite some time. They were behind her rise to power as Student Council president, and encouraged her to tutor Cletus and his family in a previous season. Now, in the guise of Chalmskinn Productions, they were behind her at Sundance in order to achieve their own goals.
Here’s my anal-retentive moment of this week’s installment: Principal Skinner has to go back into his files to find out who Lisa’s family is. Really? This had to be a ploy on Skinner’s part to encourage Lisa to produce the documentary. If the producers of The Simpsons are saying that Skinner didn’t know who Lisa’s brother was then I just may have to go back and debate myself again.
There was only one moment during this week’s episode that I sat up and paid attention — the documentary by Nelson. Similar to the film Barney produced during the Springfield Film Festival, this was a serious piece focusing on how messed up Nelson’s life was outside of Springfield Elementary. It was actually pretty sad and, frankly, better than Lisa’s documentary. By the by, Nelson’s film may have been a direct rip-off of a 1959 French film called The 400 Blows. If that’s the case, then the producers really moved into the realm of Dennis Miller with this obscure film.
Finally, a mention about this week’s guest voice talent. Jim Jarmusch was actually used well in this episode as he played a sort-of mentor to a confused Lisa. On the other hand, John C. Reilly, who is probably more well-known than Jarmusch, was given very little to do. Because his scene was at the very end of the episode, I was beginning to think that his role may have been cut out of the show entirely.
Next time — Homer meets his mother for the (apparently) last time.