Speaking of “Weight Statements,” I caught this on 10zenmonkeys, via Cinematical. It’s titled “The Celebrity Breast Conspiracy,” and it offers a reading not unlike mine on weight statements as non-news. These, instead, might be called “breast statements.”
This is Lou Cabron:
“Public diplomacy” in Hollywood isn’t exactly an exercise in subtlety. But sometimes, publicists, studio executives, or whoever dreams up these boob-headed propaganda schemes, actually try to trick us by presenting “authentic” incidents of titillation. Which are totally not authentic.
Indeed! Cabron continues:
In fact, call us paranoid, but we strongly believe there is a well-established, but never openly-acknowledged, plan among movie marketers and star handlers to manipulate the constituencies of female celebrities. Shocking? Yes.
The post then goes on to list breast statements from some of the summer’s big stars, Knightly, Alba, Diaz, Dunst, and Lohan, and also the resulting headlines. It’s a pretty solid display of tails wagging dogs, and is notable to me for its illustration of how female celebrity bodies are asked to do all this work in our cultural machinery.
Or, to put it another way: is there so little news that the media needs to make news out of non-news? News about things that are less important (Keira Knightly) than other things (the Iraq war), is one thing, because technically there should be enough public attention span to go ’round. But when news agencies are constantly putting up these self-generated non-stories– that is when I get suspicious….
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