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...ultrasound, we ask the girl how she's feeling," Wilson explains. "I ask what she would like to put on the picture for her baby book. One girl put ANGEL. Some put the name they've picked out for the baby." She points to the translucent image on the screen. "One put LITTLE MIRACLE...
...even a sing-a-long (whatever, just make out already)...speaking of spit-swapping, onlookers stood horrified as one dean’s son got (and gave) an enthusiastic mouthful from Harvard’s resident nympho. Gross...it’s been a big week for the big screen, with two Harvardians in the final for Beauty and the Geek and another in American Idol—hopefully next week’s TV chatter will revolve around Scarlett smooching a Harvard hopeful. JT’s got nothing...
Harry Potter as a literary icon, of course, is not a sex symbol for many of the series’ readers (except perhaps the tweens). But the transition from the page to the screen has led to the over-sexing of our young hero. The whole thing has become just a little too Hollywood, a little too perfect...
...when, on screen, this loveable character is suddenly sporting a six-pack or made up to look gorgeous, it feels unnatural and cheap. In the fourth movie, for example, an entire scene is dedicated to a female character trying to spy on him in the bath, and all the action scenes glorify his physique. In transfer from page to screen, Harry has become the brooding teenage hunk, fitting into the cheap, star-studded framework of Hollywood aesthetics. In the novel, Harry is exceptional for being a bookish hero; in the movie, for being some sort of jailbait Adonis. Even worse...
...whole affair represents something sordid about our obsession with on-screen perfection. We have moved from adult admiration of Marilyn Monroe’s alabaster complexion to perfectly crafted and precociously sexualized children. I don’t like to think where Hollywood will take us next...