Want to waste your time?
Written: May 09 '00 (Updated Jun 08 '00)
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Pros: Pictures of celebrities that you won't find in reputable magazines
Cons: Where's the true stuff?
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| Barefooter's Full Review: Star Magazine |
Bored to death while waiting to get my hair trimmed, I picked up a copy of Star and thumbed through it. I opened it up to find a picture of Tom Hanks in a full grown, gnarly beard peppered with gray. Oh gee thanks, Star, I'll never want to be stranded on a deserted island with my favorite star anymore. There goes that fantasy!
Every issue has StarShots, pictures of stars in all their finery or captured in questionable poses-- such as the recent eyeful of Anna Kournikova (who's she anyway?) with her breasts hanging out and a peek of her cheetah underwear. Do we really need another picture of Pamela Anderson with her chest overflowing despite a breast reduction? Puhleeze!
Oh wait, you say you're interested in that stuff? Why, Star is right up your alley! Feast your eyes on more of the same, ad nauseum, page after page in this tabloid. Susan Sarandon in fishnet stockings with a zebra throw artfully arranged to cover the bottom half of her boobs. More of Susan on the floor, with a feather boa in critical spots. Given that the majority of the Star's readers are female, I'm scratching my head on this one. Oh well, apparently voyerism sells.
If gossip, no matter how untrue or unbelievable is what gives you your jollies, then you won't mind the 15 minutes it takes to read this glossy bunch of paper from cover to cover. Read how Whitney Houston's friend's are begging her to enter drug rehab. Don't you just love how they never identify the "friends" who contribute to the interview? Another avenue of mysterious contribution to the magazine are unnamed "sources." Me thinks there's a lot of writers with vivid imaginations on staff.
If you can't afford a psychologist, but dearly need help, simply pick up your pen and pour your heart out to "Dear Meg." Her advice is short and very general-- you're sure to solve your life's problems by following her words. Take the case of the poor woman who complained of a mediocore, tightwad husband who never appreciated her for 15 years. Meg's advice? "Get out of this destructive relationship and make a new start. If he promises he'll change, don't believe him. He won't." Hey Meg-- how about suggesting some counseling and communication sessions before throwing in the towel?
If you want to talk about distasteful and tacky-- then off we go to the story of Camilla Parker Bowles and how she is stealing the deceased Princess Diana's thunder by posing in a swimsuit and frolicking in the ocean. There we have three pictures of Camilla walking around in a swimsuit, hardly looking like she's displaying anything to be jealous about. What's tacky, tacky, tacky, is the Star's display of measurements and a comparison of their bodies. Good grief, does anyone really believe those measurements were actual ones? Again, the work of a writer trying to entertain the reader who has nothing better to do.
If you tire of the questionable gossip and feel a yawn coming on towards the back of this magazine, you can still get something worthwhile out of it. There's always the crossword puzzle.
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This is a: Tabloid
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