About Yesterday….

Yesterday I was feeling the need to publicize the fact that not everyone hates Kristen.  As a matter of fact, many people love her deeply—and not just “fans”.  As a result I posted several articles to that affect.  Perhaps I should have made it more clear, what I was doing, but I do want to point out that in most of the cases the dates were on the article.  The article by Kate Spenser was originally published in 2011.  That was posted on the article and the fact that she talked about buying a Halloween costume for her daughter should have been a dead give away that the article was not written in response to The Oscars.

The article by Bruce Edwin was published on February 24, 2011–again, not in response to The Oscars.  But as he mentioned Kristen and was giving advice about not trashing people—especially if you are looking for work in Hollywood, I thought it appropriate.

The article by principesa was a collection of comments made by celebrities that have worked with and know Kristen.  They were not made after The Oscars (to my knowledge), with the exception of the comment by Daniel Radcliff.  I think that her point was that there are numerous well-known and respected people in Hollywood that admire Kristen, her work ethic, and the way she behaves as a human being.

I thought, and still do, that all of these articles had merit and were worth publishing.  Several of the comments that came in seemed to be written under the impression that all of the articles were written in response to the ugliness after The Oscars.  I did not mean to imply that at all.   If that was your impression, then I apologize.  If you would still like to have your comment approved, please send me a quick note and I will be happy to do so.  If you would prefer to have your comment deleted or if you would like to write a new comment, let me know that as well.

Thanks!

Sue

Advice to the Celebrities (and others) That Were Foolish Enough to Criticize Kristen Stewart at The Oscars

How To Succeed In Hollywood By Talent Manager Bruce Edwin

Published February 26, 2013 in News Blaze

22. Don’t trash talk stars!

Don’t be one of those people who goes on gossip tabloid sites or social media, and posts hateful things about stars, or who wastes their life complaining about them to others. I recall one day when a client I had started getting so angry in my office that Kristen Stewart was a star and she wasn’t. She argued with me about her talent, and insisted how she was hotter and more talented than Kristen-she wasn’t, and how that should have been her, not Kristen who was famous, and how Kristen didn’t deserve it. That mindset is so childish and stupid and foolish. For one, Kristen Stewart has been working in the industry since she was a little girl, and worked her way up, and secondly, even if this wanna-be actress was more talented and pretty, and also had a mom who was a casting director-which was not the case, being jealous of others success will get you no where. This girl couldn’t act to save her life, had never even attended an acting class, yet, thought that she was more entitled to fame and fortune than a stranger she had never even met.

Putting attention on fear-fear of not being good enough, fear of never making it, and hate-hatred of others success, hatred of stars, jealousy that they have what you want and they have more and you don’t, will lead to more and more misery. Progress and abundance and success comes from building, not from tearing down.

The universe delivers to us what we put our attention on, and if we put our attention on fear, hate, envy, and jealousy, then we will get more of that back in our life in the form of things to fear, things we hate, things that make us jealous, lack, and misery. However, if we put our minds on love, acceptance, gratitude, and success, then we will get that back.

Stop trying to tear down the rich and famous, and either honor them, or ignore them if you want, but don’t live a life of hatred and jealousy-that is totally lame. I recently saw one post of a geeky girl laughing how she looked younger (and presumably better) than Britney Spears. She didn’t look younger or better. Most in the industry will not want to deal with a hater, or a jealous person. They are not pleasant to be around, so don’t be one!

The other reason not to trash talk stars-aside from you don’t know them, and it’s the wrong thing to do, is, the person you may want to work with could actually give you a chance of working in a film or on a record with them. I once had a client who said how he literally hated a certain company-for political reasons. The film I was working on at the time had a sponsorship from the company, and I had him there to meet a casting director for the film. After telling us about his rant against the company, he was told, OK, forget it, you’re not getting considered for this job, since you hate this company. When ‘Twilight’ castings came up, the girl described above would have been a perfect fit for some of the vampire clan roles. But of course, I was not about to have her considered, and didn’t. She continued with her frustration about Hollywood, and like so many, disappeared, just as did the guy described above.

I once had an actress tell me how she hated a certain celebrity. She got filled with a passionate rage about her hatred of this certain female, yet had no logical reason for it. My conclusion was that she was a closet lesbian and secretly wanted to be with her. Regardless, I told her how my company was actually dealing with her office-which I was. She was shocked, and began trying to back pedal and ended up confessing to me how she kind of really liked her, and that she was hot, but that she found her annoying and she was very jealous of her. Go figure.

If you must, pretend that the Kevin Bacon game is real-it actually is, and everyone in Hollywood is connected to someone who is connected to someone who is eventually down the line-connected to someone you may be talking about. So keep it clean, keep it cool, and keep it positive if you have anything to say about someone. And if you don’t, well then, as the line goes, if you don’t have something good to say about someone, then just don’t say anything at all.

See the entire article here.

Kristen Stewart: Leading by Example? Oh, yeah, you better believe she is!

When I went on wordpress this morning, the first thing I saw was a headline that said:  Kristen Stewart: Leading by Example?  Now I  can honestly say, that the title intrigued me. “Finally!”  I thought.  So, I clicked on the link to read the article.  To my great dismay, once again, it was another article with basically nothing nice to say and all kinds of advice about how she should handle herself in the public light.

Not only was the girl hobbling up to the microphone, but she was also sporting bruises and a mane that looked like it hadn’t been brushed in about a week (seriously…can’t you afford a stylist to fix your hair?!). I really could have sworn she had just come out of her slumber in her coffin and downed a handle of vodka right before arriving at the awards ceremony. The monotone actress matched her physical appearance with her facial expression (notice I say it singularly) and tone of voice as she read off the nominees……

While Stewart had an excuse for her hobbling, I believe that the injury does not negate her appearance, nor her overall attitude. I mean, come on now, you are being seen by BILLIONS of people at this very moment, and you know it. Put a genuine smile on your face and look your best given the circumstances. And for heaven’s sake, you have the money to order your stylist to make you look fabulous!!!!

Kristen is a shining example of what NOT to do. Whether you are looking for a job/promotion or searching for a relationship, you should always make sure to go through the following mental checklist (which she apparently could have used last night):…..

This “expert” goes on to give advice including:

• Make sure your makeup is on point  (check)
• Wear something professional (I suppose in this case she should have said appropriate for the situation)  (check)
• Comb your hair  (check)–Kristen has a stylist that does her hair–do you honestly think that Kristen does her own hair?
• Check your teeth for stray food (check)
• Use your resources (check)

ccady2012 also suggests that Kristen could have “easily asked someone to cover for her and avoided all of the scrutiny.”  ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????????????????

Please feel free to comment on this person’s “insightful” (sarcasm intended) article at:  http://multiviewblogs.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/kristen-stewart-leading-by-example/

I hate to use Us Weekly as a source, but at least this time they actually used credited quotes.

 “She had sliced her foot and everyone was worrying about would she wear heels or flats or one heel, crutches or no crutches,” manicurist Ashlie Johnson told Us. “She tried so many options, she was really a trouper.”

“Kristen was nervous about her crutches so having her friends around playing music was just what she needed,” hairstylist Danilo said. “We all were trying to make her feel better and her friends were trying to tell her she’d be fine, she has insecurities about being in front of people so today was even tougher.”

I love Kristen Stewart.  I love that she is one of the most amazing young women of our time.  She marches to the beat of her own drum—ignoring the fact that there are so many who speak against her.  She is beautiful.  She is intelligent.  She is kind.  She doesn’t say ugly things about other people.  She’s kind to animals.  She is a NICE person!  She does her job despite the fact that she may have a physical injury.  She shows up, despite the fact that she doesn’t know what will greet her.  She shows up in spite of the fact that she does knows what she will endure even under the best of circumstances.

Last night was a perfect example of a young woman doing what is expected of her—not because she wanted to for publicity, not because she was feeling the need to get out and be seen, and certainly not because she was feeling her best physically.  She showed up and let them yell at her and scream at her to turn this way or that, smile, and all the other things that the photographers scream to get a starlet’s attention.  (And these are the reputable ones.)  Kristen is really not the starlet that wants to get out and promote herself.  She is introverted and would probably rather have a tooth pulled than to show up at these functions.  She can’t go anywhere or do anything without being photographed and discussed.  She was in pain because of her injury…but she showed up.  She didn’t bow out and say she couldn’t do it.  She lived up to a commitment she had made!  This young lady is in the middle of a nightmare.  It seems there is absolutely NOTHING she can do to please the haters.  If she had called and said she couldn’t come because of her foot, then there would have been a firestorm about how she was using it as an excuse to not appear in public.  She shows up to do her job and she gets insults for using (and not using) her crutches and accused of using her injury for PR.   She didn’t smile, she didn’t fix her hair, she talks in a monotone—all complaints that have been voiced about her appearance last night.

Do you notice, however, that all of the people that are out there saying all of these ugly things, were not up there presenting an Oscar?  They are not the ones that are in the spotlight? They are not the ones put in the bulls eye for every asshole that wants to take a pot shot.   It is easy for them to sit in their offices in their cozy little chairs and moan and groan–complain and give advice.  But the fact of the matter is, they don’t know “sh*t” about what is going on in the life of this young woman.  Who are they to sit in judgement?  Who died and left them with the title of “Critic of the Day”?  What leads them to think that they have ANY right to say anything about what this young woman should or shouldn’t have done?

In the case of  ccady2012 above, I suspect that her company has a blog and that everyone in the company is supposed to write an article as part of their job description.  Well, she wrote her blog and made a complete ass out of herself.  If she had just given suggestions as to how to prepare to go to a job interview or to meet someone for the first time, then she would have had a legitimate article.  But, to attempt to link to Kristen Stewart and to have the audacity to offer advice to her is outrageous.

Now the truth of the matter is, that there will be very few people that see the article this ccady2012  woman wrote.  But there are a lot of other people out there taking the same kind of  aim at Kristen, with no more insight or legitimate right than she had.

Is Kristen Stewart leading by example?  Hell, yes she is!  An admirable, hold your head high and let them eat shit kind of example.  I’m proud of her!  And more power to her!

There is an old saying, “If you don’t have something nice to say about someone, don’t say anything at all.”

There is another saying that says, “People who live in glass houses, shouldn’t throw stones.”

So unless you have NO faults and have NOTHING you could do better, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!!!

Make It Stop!

Last night, ABC 20/20 had an episode about paparazzi and photographing celebrities’ children.  You can watch it here.  This is once again an example of the tabloids and their exploitation of people’s lives.  The paparazzi are a plague to mankind, but do you know who puts them there?  We do!  The reason they are there is because the public wants to see celebrities in every aspect of their lives.  The tabloids provide a venue for them to do that.  They pay the paparazzi  enormous amounts of money to take shots that they can put in their magazines and on their websites.  The tabloids are the ones we need to take down.  If we don’t go to their sites or buy their magazines, the paparazzi would have no reason to follow celebrities around like stalkers and invade every aspect of their existence!  We have got to make this stop!  We are the only ones that can make it stop!

Join the plan and help us demand truth instead of lies from the tabloids.  Help us demand tabloids quit publishing pictures of celebrities and their families during their daily routines.  Making movies is a job.  Being an entertainer is a career choice and shouldn’t allow  24 hour access to a person’s every move.    Celebrities have a right to a private home life.

Another Kristen Stewart Article Worth Reading!

Honor Roll 2012: Kristen Stewart Goes ‘On the Road’ to Find Sex, Dancing and — Just Maybe — an Award

by Jay A. Fernandez
December 20, 2012 12:44 PM   As seen on Indiewire

Kristen Stewart in “On the Road” Comme au Cinema

Honor Roll is a daily series for December that will feature new or previously published interviews, profiles and first-person stories of some of the year’s most notable cinematic voices. Today, we’re running a new interview with Kristen Stewart.

It’s easy for audiences to forget that if you take away “Twilight,” Kristen Stewart has done mostly indie-minded acting work. Other studio films do pepper her resume — “Jumper,” “Snow White and the Huntsman,” “Panic Room,” “Zathura” — but at a mere 22-years-old, Stewart has an independent streak at least as deep as that of well-respected indie darlings such as Michelle Williams and Catherine Keener. It’s just that much of Stewart’s public approbation has come from the Teen Choice/MTV Movie Award constituencies.

That may change this year.

To read the rest of this article click here.

Thank you, Andrew O’Hehir of SALON!!!

Kristen Stewart: Not just “the ‘Twilight’ girl everyone s- – – – on”

The “Twilight” star talks about media insanity, her unbelievable career arc and her role in “On the Road”

By Andrew O’Hehir  

December 18, 2012  in SALON

Kristen Stewart (Credit: AP/Jordan Strauss)

I met Kristen Stewart somewhat unexpectedly. And I really liked her! I mean, she’s a cagey, cautious person; you can feel her sizing you up while she decides whether you’re an idiot or a nutjob and discerns how much she should stick to polite, neutral remarks. You might be like that, too, if you were 22 years old and the highest-paid actress in the history of Hollywood, and if you had seen an ordinary domestic spat with your boyfriend – the sort of thing a whole lot of 22-year-olds go through, if I remember correctly – become an international front-page tabloid story.

I did not ask her anything about Robert Pattinson or the current state of her love life. Because it’s not my business, and I really don’t care! So if that’s what you want to read, you might have to look elsewhere. But even in a brief and necessarily superficial conversation, I got a few flashes of real personality: Stewart is a young woman with a mischievous wit and a penchant for murmured, foul-mouthed asides who is enthusiastic about her work and also aware that her rocket-like ascension from the little-known indie ingénue of “Into the Wild” and “Adventureland” to a huge superstar has been an incredibly strange story.

Earlier this week, the virgin-turned-vampire of the just-concluded “Twilight” series was in New York for the premiere of a vastly different sort of film: the long-brewing adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” from Brazilian director Walter Salles (of “The Motorcycle Diaries”). A passion project that Salles has been working on for five years – and which he inherited from Francis Ford Coppola, who once hoped to make the film with Brad Pitt and Ethan Hawke in the starring roles – this “On the Road” is decidedly a mixed bag, visually lovely and packed full of music and atmosphere, but only sometimes capturing the syncopated, drug-fueled effervescence of Kerouac’s prose.

Stewart has been working hard to promote the film since its Cannes premiere in May, which is remarkable considering that she plays a supporting role and that it seems unlikely “On the Road” will attract much of a mainstream audience. (Her scenes were actually filmed more than two years ago, just before she shot the next-to-last “Twilight” film.) Her character, known as Marylou in the book and movie, is based on a real person named Luanne Henderson, who was the on-and-off partner of Kerouac’s charismatic, bisexual pal Neal Cassady, who became Dean Moriarty in “On the Road.” (Dean is played by Garrett Hedlund in this movie’s real star-making performance.)

One of the virtues of Stewart’s post-“Twilight” position, as she reflected in our conversation, is that she gets to do whatever she damn well pleases in a business and an era where most working actors have limited choices. She may or may not return to the role of Snow White in a sequel to the darkish fantasy “Snow White and the Huntsman,” and although she’s been cast opposite Ben Affleck in a screwball comedy for “Crazy, Stupid, Love” creators Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, that movie hasn’t begun production. In the meantime, her publicists suggested (with about 12 hours’ notice) that she might be willing to chat for a few minutes in her New York hotel before the “On the Road” premiere.

Although she was photographed later that night in a lacy, sheer and leggy designer dress and alarmingly high pumps, when I met Stewart she was dressed more anonymously, almost tomboyishly, in a pinstripe shirt, tan pullover and slim-fitting blue jeans.

For the Q and A portion of this article  click here.

Meet Another Face of the Celebrity Gossip Machine: Meet USA Today’s Andrea Mandell

By twilighter

Previously we highlighted several unsavory perveyors of the Celebrity Gossip Machine and how they distorted the truth to generate web hits and sell their sleazy magazines.   But every once and a while you actually run across someone in the entertainment reporting business who actually resists the urge of her colleagues to use  deception and demagoguery to make money.

Meet Andrea Mandell, the USA Today entertainment reporter.

Andrea penned an article today on Kristen Stewart’s appearance at the premier of On the Road yesterday in LA and managed to write a whole web article about the premier and Stewart’s comments in relation to it without once mentioning the so called “cheating” scandal.  Good for her.  Nearly all of the rest of her colleagues that purport to be reporters can’t seem to write anything about Kristen, let alone Robert Pattinson, without mentioning it, even when it has nothing to do with what they are writing about.

You can read Mandell’s article, which is actually enlightening at:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2012/11/04/stewart-steps-out-with-pattinson-for-on-the-road/1680141/

If you follow her tweets on twitter you will also note that she never tweeted anything regarding the so called scandal at all.

And in the web article’s side panel, there is actually a link to send her an email. I think we should encourage these rare acts of media responsibility, so if you have a moment, drop Andrea an email and tell her that you appreciate her unwillingness to sink to the gutter and pile on like so many of her colleagues have and that she should be commended for it.  Its not often that we get a chance to commend someone for doing a good job in this business.

Take a Stand! Stop the Bullying of Kristen Stewart!

Bullying is abuse and all abuse is illegal. Verbal harassment is abuse and it also is against the law.  Any of the of the following: mental physical/sexual abuse/emotional or effecting a person financially is abuse and the abuser can get arrested.  Harassment refers to a wide variety of behavior which can violate both civil and criminal laws. What constitutes criminal harassment varies by state, but it generally entails targeting someone else with behavior meant to alarm, annoy, torment or terrorize, and creating reasonable fear in the victim for their safety or the safety of their family.

Kristen has been tormented, slandered, and suffered character defamation for the last three months.

If you want to help stop the media from printing these libelous statements about Kristen this is how to do it. Everyone needs to email the PUBLISHERS and threaten to boycott ALL the advertisers through THEM!

If they get THOUSANDS of emails it can make an impression!

When writing your email:

Address the publisher by name.

Include in your letter the following:

We, as consumers, are demanding an immediate stop to the use of any derogatory name and all derogatory articles about Kristen Stewart. Additionally, we are demanding a permanent ban on the printing of paparazzi pictures of Kristen and anyone who is with her when she is in the privacy of her home or at any private venue. We are requesting an apology for the THREE FULL months of BULLYING you have subjected her to. If this had been done to any non-celebrity, this would have already been in the courts. What your magazine (tabloid, network, program) has been doing is highly illegal. Bullying is against the law. If you do not cease and desist immediately, we, as consumers, will boycott ALL ADVERTISERS both in-store, online and via social networking and will expose these advertisers as ENABLERS OF BULLYING of a 22 year old girl. We demand you stop badgering this young woman and sending the vile message to our daughters that it is acceptable to bully someone.

 

It will HAVE to hurt…this wording is VERY IMPORTANT! This is how we prevent these things in schools…

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I originally opened this blog as a place where Twilighter could post his theories and discuss them with others in an intellectual and civilized manner–unlike the Gossip Cop venue.  As there was a time lapse between the time that I opened the blog and the time he was ready to post, I started adding additional material.  As he has now started posting, I have removed my personal comments and personal opinions.  I hope you enjoy what Twilighter has to say.  He bases his theories on available information and is analytical in forming his opinions.

Are You Living in a Dreamworld?

You know, until all this (the “scandal”) happened, I didn’t really know much about photo manipulation.  I mean, I knew that it was used in magazines to make models appear thinner, have perfect skin etc.  And of course, it has been used by the movie industry for years.  If you read the previous article you get a small idea of some of the amazing special effects that were used on Snow White and Huntsman.  It is often called CGI or Computer Generated Imagery.

Wikipedia says:

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the application of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art, printed media, video games, films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation generally. The visual scenes may be dynamic or static, and may be 2D or 3D, though the term “CGI” is most commonly used to refer to 3D computer graphics used for creating scenes or special effects in films and television.

Those special effects have become a standard in the industry.  Think about some of the most popular movies around today.  The Avengers, Batman (in all its many forms), Ironman, Transformers…the list goes on and on.  You would be hard put to try to find a movie that DOESN’T have some sort of CGI effect in it.

But, it had never really occurred to me that it could be used in other ways.   As I have followed the “scandal”, I have learned that photo manipulation is not only possible in the film industry, but is easily done by anyone with a computer and  the right software.  Did you know that if you Google “change heads photoshop” you will get 10 choices before you even go a page to choose an article.  I was shocked!  Did you also know there is even an APP for it?  It’s called  “iSwapFaces”!  ANYBODY can do it with the right tools.

They have tutorials on how to do it.  Check this out!

<—-This can be made into this—->

in NINE easy steps!!!!

Check it out for yourself:       http://tutorials-photoshop.com/photo-editing/change-heads1/

You can even find a video to show you how to do it!  Type change heads photoshop into Yahoo! and you will get multiple videos of what can be done and how to do it!

We even have examples on the blog—done by individuals—mostly for fun.  For instance, have you checked out the Ruperv Bashing section of this blog?  Take a look at the 50 Ways to Kill a Ruperv page.  Do you think any of those events ever actually occurred?  Of course not!  They never occurred, not only that, some of them aren’t even possible.  Ruperv being eaten by a troll?  Heck the troll was not even real to start with! That was all done with photo manipulation.  A manipulation of a manipulation.  Whoa!  Now that’s a concept!

About.com’s article entitled The Ethics of Digital Photo Manipulation  in part states:

Doctoring photographs has been around almost as long as photography itself, but as digital imaging hardware and software has both advanced and come down in price, the practice of digital image manipulation has become much more commonplace and faked photos are becoming harder to detect. In fact, digital photo manipulation — commonly referred to as ‘photoshopping’ — has recently become a popular pastime, and many consider this photographic fakery to be a new art form. But when it works its way into photojournalism and the media, the issue of ethics comes to the forefront. How far can we take digital image manipulation and still maintain photographic integrity

There is a Code of Ethics for Digital Manipulation:

Digital Manipulation Code of Ethics

NPPA Statement of Principle

• Approved by the NPPA executive committee Nov. 12, 1990, in Tempe, Arizona.
• Revised by the NPPA Board of Directors July 3, 1991, in Washington, D.C.
• Incorporated into the NPPA Bylaws at the 50th Anniversary NPPA Convention in Washington, D.C., in June 1995, as part of Article XVII, Section C, the NPPA Code of Ethics.

adopted 1991 by the NPPA Board of Directors

As journalists we believe the guiding principle of our profession is accuracy; therefore, we believe it is wrong to alter the content of a photograph in any way that deceives the public.

As photojournalists, we have the responsibility to document society and to preserve its images as a matter of historical record. It is clear that the emerging electronic technologies provide new challenges to the integrity of photographic images … in light of this, we the National Press Photographers Association, reaffirm the basis of our ethics: Accurate representation is the benchmark of our profession. We believe photojournalistic guidelines for fair and accurate reporting should be the criteria for judging what may be done electronically to a photograph. Altering the editorial content … is a breach of the ethical standards recognized by the NPPA.

Digital manipulation of photographs is happening ALL the time.  I also realize to refer to the people of FlameFlyNet Pictures as true journalists that could be held to a Code of Ethics, is unrealistic.  But, if you think that the photographs of Kristen Stewart at the lookout point with Rupert couldn’t have been altered….you are living in a dream world.

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