A Brief History of Stars - Part Two

Omega Centauri, a beautiful star cluster, taken from Hubble.

Chapter Four: Supermodels – Past and Present


Many of the same patterns that are common to the lives of other celebrities are also present, if not more frequent, in fashion models. Many of these do not receive the same level of media attention as those involving music and movie stars, but you will hear about some of the drug overdoses, violent incidents/victims of violent abuse, suicides and mental breakdowns. Eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia, are quite common, for what would appear to be obvious reasons, but there may be some additional reasons that are not as commonly understood.




Cheryl Tiegs

Cheryl Tiegs is considered by many to be the first American supermodel, giving way to scores of other tall beauties. She made her first professional appearance on a magazine cover with the June 1966 issue of 'Teen'. She’s done tons of print ads and campaigns. She is best known for her long-running affiliation with the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, which featured her on the cover in 1970, 1975, and 1983. The 1978 poster of her in a pink bikini became an iconic 1970s pop culture image.




Jerry Hall

Jerry Faye Hall (born July 2, 1956) is an American model and actress, also known for her long-term relationship with Mick Jagger, with whom she had four children. Hall started dating Mick Jagger in 1977. She married him on November 21, 1990 in an unofficial Balinese ceremony consisting largely of Hindu ritual. This common-law marriage to Jagger ended in 1999.

The Rolling Stones song 'Miss You' was written by Jagger for Hall. Jagger's wife, Bianca Jagger, began divorce proceedings as a result of her husband's involvement with Hall.

In 2004, Hall studied Kabbalah, and was briefly associated with The Kabbalah Centre. She hosted a charity event for the centre with Mick Jagger and guests Ron Wood and Michael Berg. However, Hall has since disassociated herself from the centre, claiming that at periodic intervals, they requested significant donations from her.

Hall is signed to Elite Model Management in New York City.




Kate Moss

Katherine "Kate" Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) is an English model. She went to Riddlesdown high school. She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers. She is known for her waifish figure, uncommonly short height for a fashion model, and appearances in many advertising campaigns. She is also notorious for her high-profile relationships and party lifestyle. In 2007, she came 2nd on the Forbes top-earning models list, estimated to have earned $9 million in one year

Moss was discovered in 1988 at the age of 14 by Sarah Doukas, the founder of Storm Model Management, at JFK Airport in New York City, after a holiday in The Bahamas. Moss's career began when Corinne Day shot black-and-white photographs of her, styled by Melanie Ward, for British magazine The Face when she was 15, in a photo shoot titled "The Third Summer of Love".

Moss then went on to become the "anti-supermodel" of the 1990s in contrast to the "supermodels" of the moment, such as Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, and Naomi Campbell, who were known for their curvaceous and tall figures.

British tabloids and the paparazzi, particularly the Daily Mirror, have long claimed that Moss habitually used cocaine. In interviews, Moss dismissed these claims as ridiculous, and the Sunday Mirror was sued successfully by Moss for claiming that she had slipped into a coma after taking large amounts of cocaine in Spain in the 1990s.

On 15 September 2005, the Daily Mirror ran front page and inside photos that seemed to show Moss snorting several lines of a white powder that was presumed to be cocaine at a Babyshambles recording session. It was also reported that Moss snorted five lines in 40 minutes. It has been alleged by Babyshambles' singer Pete Doherty that James Mullord, his former manager, sold the photos to the newspaper for more than £150,000. Within a short time of publication, Moss lost major modelling contracts with several international companies.

Stella Vine's painting of Kate Moss, "Holy Water cannot help you now".

On 20 September 2005, the Swedish fashion retailer H&M, which had intended to feature her in a campaign of their autumn clothes range designed by Moss's good friend Stella McCartney, announced instead that it was dropping Moss after the drug allegations. The contract was reportedly worth £4 million a year. A day later, Chanel announced that it would not be renewing its contract with Moss, which was set to expire that October, although the company said that its decision had nothing to do with the drug scandal. Burberry also decided to drop Moss's campaign with them.

Moss quickly issued an apology, though she stopped short of admitting drug use. "I take full responsibility for my actions. I also accept that there are various personal issues that I need to address and have started taking the difficult, yet necessary, steps to resolve them," she said. "I want to apologise to all of the people I have let down because of my behaviour, which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others."

Kate dissociates

Moss continued to appear in major ad campaigns during this period for Dior. She was on the cover of the November 2005 W and also appeared inside in a multi-page fashion shoot. She was also defended by friends and supporters, including models Naomi Campbell and Helena Christensen, French actress Catherine Deneuve, her ex-boyfriend Johnny Depp, and designer Alexander McQueen. McQueen's defence was especially notable, and during his walk-out after a fashion show he wore a t-shirt saying "We love you Kate".

She was interviewed by police in London on 31 January 2006, with her solicitor present, but reportedly made no admissions, and she was not arrested (photographs of alleged drug-taking are not admissible evidence in English courts). On 16 June 2006, British police finally dropped the charges for lack of evidence. Ultimately, Moss was cleared of all charges and resumed her modelling career.

According to Forbes, Moss has earned more money since her cocaine scandal than ever before: her 2004–2005 earnings were $5 million and her 2005–2006 earnings were $8 million. In 2007, with estimated earnings of $9 million, she was the second highest paid model in the world, behind Gisele Bündchen.

In November 2006, Moss won the Model of the Year prize at the British Fashion Awards, the top accolade in British fashion, but the award divided opinion and stirred fresh controversy.

On 27 September 2007, The Sun published a story entitled, "Kate Moss dumped by seven brands", describing her "cocaine honeymoon" as fading away. The story continues by stating that in autumn 2006 she had eighteen contracts in comparison to 2007's eleven, and that in 2006 fashion bible Vogue had six campaigns using Moss including Dior, Louis Vuitton and Burberry, but November 2007's issue has none. The story concludes by saying that an industry source has said "She is still very big but the honeymoon period has ended."




Naomi Campbell: The Angry One

Naomi Campbell (born 22 May 1970) is a British model. Discovered while shopping in London, Campbell started her career in the 1980s and soon appeared on the catwalks of Milan and Paris, as well as on the cover pages of internationally renowned fashion magazines. She is also known for perfumes associated with her name, and for a series of legal issues ['violent crimes' would be a more accurate term - it's funny how "someone" on wikipedia felt the need to soften that up and add some pro-Naomi "spin", isn't it?].


In 2000, Campbell pleaded guilty in a Toronto court to a 1998 assault on Georgina Galanis, her then assistant; Campbell had allegedly assaulted Georgina Galanis with a telephone in a hotel room and threatened to throw her out of a moving Peugeot. Under an agreement with the prosecution, her record was cleared in exchange for her expressing remorse; Campbell also paid Galanis an undisclosed sum and agreed to attend anger management classes.

In March 2005, Campbell allegedly slapped assistant Amanda Brack and beat her around the head with a BlackBerry personal organiser. Campbell's spokesman Rob Shuter denied the incident ever took place. In July 2006, Brack began legal proceedings against Campbell, claiming Campbell abused her verbally and physically on three continents. Brack accused Campbell of assault, battery, and infliction of emotional distress in incidents that started a month after she began working for her in February 2005. Campbell countersued for an unknown amount.

Italian actress Yvonne Sciò has claimed Campbell left her "covered in blood" after an altercation at a Rome hotel, allegedly due to the fact that Sciò had worn the same dress as Campbell. Sciò's claim: "She punched me in the face. She was like Mike Tyson."

If these aren't the eyes of dissociation, well...

On 30 March 2006 in New York City, Campbell was arrested for allegedly assaulting her housekeeper with a jewel-encrusted mobile phone, resulting in a bloody head that required several stitches. She was charged with second degree assault, a felony that carries a minimum sentence of one year and a maximum of seven years in prison.

On 28 September 2006, Campbell did not attend a required court appearance in New York City, and the judge ruled that he would order her arrest if she failed to turn up in court the following week, on charges of a second-degree assault on her housekeeper, and could be jailed for up to seven years if convicted.

On 25 October 2006, Campbell was arrested in London on suspicion of assault; she was released on police bail. On 14 November 2006, another former Campbell housekeeper, Gaby Gibson, began a new court case against Campbell seeking unspecified damages, and accused her ex-employer of being a "violent super-bigot".

On 15 November 2006, Campbell appeared in criminal court in New York City regarding her March 2006 assault charges. Her defence lawyer and the prosecutor told the judge that they were "still in the process of working out a possible plea deal in the case".

The Boston-based law firm Sullivan & Worcester, which had assigned a top litigator to defend Campbell throughout her many escapades, severed their relationship with Campbell in 2006, allegedly stating publicly that Campbell was a danger to everyone around her.

Some sort of occult-ish star there on the left; maybe Kabbalah related?

On 16 January 2007, Campbell pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless assault against her housekeeper, Ana Scolavino. She was sentenced to five days community service and ordered to attend two days of an anger management course. In addition, she was ordered to pay medical bills of $363 (£185) to Scolavino who required four stitches after the incident.

According to a report on CNN, Campbell blames "her temper on lingering resentment toward her father for abandoning her as a child".

On 19 March 2007, Campbell began mopping floors at New York's Sanitation Department for her service. On 20 August 2007, New York Supreme Court Judge Michael Stallman issued a decision and order denying Campbell's legal attempt to exclude Gaby Gibson's references from her history of well-publicised, allegedly "chronic abusive and repeatedly violent conduct toward her employees."

Judge Stallman reasoned that "if proven, the reports of Campbell's conduct" might result in proving that it was so "wanton or outrageous" to justify the punitive damages sought by Campbell's ex-housekeeper.

On 3 April 2008, Campbell was arrested inside Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 on suspicion of assaulting a police officer after one of her bags had been lost. Campbell was subsequently banned from flying globally with British Airways by the airline.

She was charged with three counts of assaulting a constable, which carries a maximum sentence of six months in prison and a fine of up to £5,000, one count of disorderly conduct likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, which is punishable by a fine of up to £2,500, and one count of using threatening, abusive words or behaviour towards cabin crew, which comes with a maximum penalty of £1,000.

On 20 June 2008, Campbell pleaded guilty to four of the six charges against her, while the Crown Prosecution Service decided to drop the other two charges. The remaining charges include two counts of assaulting a police constable; one of using threatening, abusive words or behaviour to cabin crew; and one of using insulting, abusive, threatening behaviour or disorderly conduct likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.

Campbell cited racist slurs and other verbal abuse directed at her by members of the British Airways crew as the reason for her outburst. Campbell was sentenced to 200 hours of community service. Campbell also alleged that British Airways staff called her a "golliwogg supermodel" in the incident.

On 2 March 2010, Campbell's limousine driver filed a report with the New York City Police Department claiming that Campbell had slapped and punched him. She then allegedly fled the scene. A spokesman for Campbell said "there shouldn't be a rush to judgement" and said she would co-operate voluntarily. Investigators initially sought to question Campbell, but police decided to drop the matter after the driver chose not to pursue criminal charges.

In 2010, Mia Farrow stated that Campbell told her she was given a large, uncut "Blood Diamond" by Liberian warlord Charles Taylor while the three were overnight guests of Nelson Mandela in South Africa, in 1997. Campbell denies receiving the gift and refuses to testify on the issue. The model stormed out of an interview with ABC news after refusing to respond to questions about the incident and slugged the camera.

 But, even considering this pattern of admitted violent incidents (and criminal convictions), it's important that we not jump to any conclusions about Naomi. :)





Wanted: Angie Senselmente Valencia

A lingerie model is believed to be the mastermind behind an all-women drug gang that smuggles cocaine into Britain. An international arrest warrant has been issued for Angie Sanselmente Valencia, 30, who is said to only hire glamour models to transport the drugs from South America to Europe.

It's believed that Colombian-born Valencia had been seeing a Mexican drug lord known as 'The Monster' but split with him at the end of last year to form her own cocaine-smuggling gang. She is said to describe the women working for her as 'unsuspicious, beautiful angels'. The women are told to be 'nice, but not flashy'.

Valencia, who was crowned Colombia's 'Queen Of Coffee' in 2000, left modelling and moved to Argentina late last year to establish her network. Her 'angels' were paid £3,200 for each trip they made and one of her gang is believed to have boarded a flight every 24 hours with the packages of cocaine. From Argentina they would fly up to the Mexican Caribbean resort of Cancun and from there they would smuggle them into Europe.

However her network began to unravel several weeks ago when one of her 'drug mules' was caught at Argentina's Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires carrying 55kg of cocaine.

Yikes! 55 keys is a LOT of blow...I wonder how many times they pulled that off without getting sniffed out by the airport doggies?!


( Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1253347/Runaway-lingerie-model-Angie-Sanselmente-Valencia-named-head-drug-gang.html )




(Special thanks to Ben at PseudOccult Media for many pics, especially in this section. He is an excellent researcher and resource for me, and is the unquestioned master on the supermodel side of things, with a very keen eye for symbolism in all areas.)



More Modern Day Models


Gemma Ward

Monarch mind control symbolism just doesn’t get any more blatant than this.

Split-Gemma with traumatized eyes, and looking rather robotic with robots.

Gemma looking hypnagogic and transfixed on something, and The Eye watching over her.

Gemma; dehumanization furry legs, dissociative circles, “Setan” and imprisonment theme.

Shattered glass/mind symbolism on the black/white dress, and, of course, more butterflies.




Heidi Klum

Sex kitten, those eyes and keep quiet about something.

Klum has been on the cover of fashion magazines, including Vogue, ELLE and Marie Claire. She became known after appearing on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and for her work with Victoria's Secret as an "Angel". Klum hosted the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2009.

And a few more "Angels" from the same show...

Walk, Walk....fashion, baby...

Heidi Klum with her child (top), and her husband Seal, a very good singer.

Lily Cole

Not sure of their names, but the symbolism is fairly obvious.

Get the message?

Natalia Vodianova

How many Monarchs do you see here?




Tyra Banks

Tyra Banks, the beautiful star of vapid daytime television - she's got those dissociative eyes, too.

Banks began modeling in the 11th grade. She later went to Paris, France to do some runway modeling. Within Banks' first week in Paris, designers were so entranced by her presence on the runway that she was booked for an unprecedented twenty-five shows – a record in the business for a newcomer.

Banks was the first African American woman on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. In 1997, she received the VH1 award for Supermodel of the Year. That same year, she became the first-ever African American chosen for the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog.

Banks retired from modeling in May 2005 to concentrate on her television career. She walked the runway for the final time at the 2005 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.





Chapter Five: The Television Stars



Goldie Hawn

Goldie Hawn was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Laura (née Steinhoff), a jewelry shop/dance school owner, and Edward Rutledge Hawn, a band musician who played at major events in Washington. She was named after her mother's aunt.

Hawn is a direct descendant of Edward Rutledge, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence. Hawn was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland. Her father was Presbyterian and her mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Hungary; Hawn was raised in Judaism.

Goldie Hawn on 'Laugh-In'


Hawn began her acting career as a cast member of the short-lived situation comedy Good Morning, World during the 1967-1968 television season, her role being that of the girlfriend of a radio disc jockey, with a stereotypical "dumb blonde" personality. Her next role, which brought her to international attention, was as one of the regular cast members on the 1968-1973 sketch comedy show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. On the show, she would often break out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke, and deliver a polished performance a moment after. Noted equally for her chipper attitude as for her bikini and painted body, Hawn personified something of a 1960s "It" girl.

Hawn's Laugh-In persona was parlayed into three popular film appearances in the late 1960s and early 1970s: 'Cactus Flower', 'There's a Girl in My Soup' and 'Butterflies Are Free'. Hawn had made her feature film debut in a bit role as a giggling dancer in the 1968 film 'The One and Only', 'Genuine', 'Original Family Band', in which she was billed as "Goldie Jeanne", but in her first major film role, in 'Cactus Flower' (1969), she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Walter Matthau's suicidal fiancee.

At the age of thirty-nine, Hawn posed for the cover of Playboy's January 1985 issue, which went on to be one of their highest selling issues. Hawn posed in a giant martini glass wearing nothing but a white collar shirt, a loosened black tie, and a pair of red stilettos. The headline read: "A SPARKLING PLAYBOY INTERVIEW WITH GOLDIE HAWN".

Nothing symbolic here at all.

Hawn became involved in Eastern philosophy in 1972. She is a practicing Buddhist and has raised her children in both Buddhist and Jewish traditions. She stated on the Larry King Show that she is a Jewish Buddhist, but neither more Jewish nor more Buddhist; in interviews, she also detailed that she never had to forsake her Jewish heritage to embrace Buddhism and that her Jewish religion and heritage come before Buddhism.

Hawn travels to India annually, and has visited Israel, stating that she felt a strong identification with its people. She has been criticized for lending out her support for Israel and for the Jewish National Fund. In 1997, she was one of a number of Hollywood stars and executives to sign an open letter to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, published as a newspaper advertisement in the International Herald Tribune, which protested the treatment of Scientologists in Germany.

Hawn founded and funds the The Hawn Foundation, which teaches the Buddhist technique of Mindfulness training; where fourth through seventh graders are instructed in mindful awareness techniques and positive thinking skills, then tested for changes in behavior, social and emotional competence, and moral development. A study indicated that children who participated in the Program increased significantly in the areas of optimism, positive and negative emotions; the study was not peer reviewed and paid for by the organization.

Hawn has been in negotiation with the Conservative Party to set up a school in Britain where her MindUp technique would be taught. Hawn realizes that many parents oppose bringing Buddhist methods into public schools, and recently stated in Greater Good magazine, published by Greater Good Science Center: "There will always be people who see this as scary, or as some kind of Eastern philosophy that they don't want for their kids." Hawn adds, "Mindfulness gives kids a tool for understanding how their brain works, for having more self-control."

Goldie Hawn, teaching kids about self-control and how their brains work?? Imagine that.





Charlie’s Angels

The original Charlie’s Angels – Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith



Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett (February 2, 1947 – June 25, 2009) was an American actress and artist. A multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she first appeared as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the TV series 'Charlie's Angels', in 1976.

Fawcett was a sex symbol whose iconic poster, released the same year Charlie's Angels premiered, broke sales records, making her an international pop culture icon. Her hair style was emulated by millions of young women for nearly a decade, beginning in the 1970s and through early 1980s.

Second Generation Angels - Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd and Kate Jackson

Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd

The Modern Day Angels - Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu




Opie, Andy, Barney and Gomer

Ron Howard as Opie, Andy Griffith, Don Knotts and Jim Nabors




Three’s Company

Suzanne Somers, John Ritter, Don Knotts and other cast members.

Suzanne Somers





Angela Lansbury

Angela Brigid Lansbury, CBE (born 16 October 1925) is an English actress and singer whose career has spanned eight decades. Her first film appearance was in 'Gaslight' (1944) as a malevolent maid, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Among her other films are 'The Manchurian Candidate' (1962), 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' (1971) and 'Beauty and the Beast' (1991).

Lansbury is more recently known for her role as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher on the U.S. television series 'Murder, She Wrote', in which she starred from 1984 to 1996, and in a Broadway revival of 'Blithe Spirit', as Madame Arcati.

Following her father's death from stomach cancer, her mother became involved with a Scotsman named Leckie Forbes, and the two merged their families under one roof in Hampstead. A former colonel with the British Army in India, Forbes proved to be a jealous and suspicious tyrant who ruled the household with an iron hand.

Just prior to the German bombing campaign of London, Lansbury's mother was presented with the opportunity to take her children to North America, and under cover of dark of night they fled from their unhappy home and sailed for Montreal; from there they headed to New York City. When her mother settled in Hollywood following a fund-raising Canadian tour of a Noel Coward play, Lansbury (and later her brothers) joined her there.




Wonder Woman

Lynda Carter





The Six-Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman

Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner

Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett-Majors




Beverly Hills 90210

The Cast of 90210

Tori Spelling and her TV magnate father, Aaron Spelling





Dawson's Creek

Michelle Williams, James VanderBeek, Katie Holmes, Josh Jackson of 'Dawson’s Creek'.

Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson

Joshua Jackson and Michelle Williams

Katie Holmes and husband, Tom Cruise, an adamant and outspoken Scientologist.




The Billionaire Queen of Daytime Television

Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American television host, producer, and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century and beyond, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was once the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.

Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, including being raped at the age of nine and becoming pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy.

In 2007, skeptic and magician, James Randi accused Winfrey of being deliberately deceptive and uncritical in how she handles paranormal claims on her show. In 2007, Winfrey began to endorse the "self-help program", (aka New Age Bible) 'The Secret'.

'The Secret' claims that people can change their lives through positive thoughts, which will then cause vibrations that result in good things happening to them.

Peter Birkenhead of Salon magazine argued that this idea is pseudoscience and psychologically damaging, as it trivializes important decisions and promotes a quick-fix material culture, and suggests Winfrey's promotion of it is irresponsible given her level of influence.

Another controversy in 2008 occurred when Winfrey endorsed author and spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle and his book, 'A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose', which sold several million copies after being selected for Oprah's book club.

During a Webinar class, in which she promoted the book, Winfrey stated "God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience…then that's not truly God."

Frank Pastore, a Christian radio talk show host on KKLA, was among the many Christian leaders who criticized Winfrey's views, saying "if she's a Christian, she's an ignorant one, because Christianity is incompatible with New Age thought."

Oprah Winfrey and James Arthur Ray

When three people died and dozens more were hospitalized from the effects of a faux Native American-Indian sweat lodge - during a “spiritual warrior weekend” in Sedona, Arizona, for which participants paid nearly $10,000 apiece - a harsh light was cast on the so-called 'New Age' Movement and its greedier entrepreneurs.

The shocking incident has received worldwide attention and revived troubling questions about the harmful potential of pseudoscience, the limitless nature of human credulity — and even the cosmic influence of Oprah Winfrey, who has passionately promoted all manner of unified field theories of health, wealth and spiritual renewal on her television program, in her magazine and on her Web site.

“Oprah has mainstreamed a lot of very questionable characters, in my opinion,” says anti-cult therapist Steven Hassan, a former official of the Unification Church who rebelled, escaped and became a prominent debunker (and was himself a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1989).

Hassan said, “I would like to believe that this incident could be something that would cause people like Oprah to do more responsible research and to question whether or not they are serving their viewers, as opposed to just promoting people and ideas that are fundamentally flawed.”

It turns out that Oprah, whose multimedia empire reaches an estimated 40 million fans, gave a massive career boost to the New Age guru who was presiding over the lethal sweat lodge.

According to news reports, James Arthur Ray was actively dissuading the victims - some 50 of whom were packed into a cramped enclosure, vomiting and collapsing in searing heat - from trying to save themselves. Ray’s Los Angeles publicist, Howard Bragman, who has asked for people to wait for the facts and not rush to judgment, declined to comment for this story.

Ray is a handsome, charismatic prophet of profit; during the “warrior weekend” - for which paying customers were required to spend 36 hours in the Arizona desert without food or water - he reportedly offered to sell them Peruvian ponchos for an additional $250 a pop.

James Arthur Ray (Mugshot courtesy Yavapai County Sheriff's Office).

Ray and the retreat center where the deaths occurred, Angel Valley Sedona, are also facing civil suits. Ray posted on his Web site a list of questions and answers addressing the tragedy. One excerpt: "Much has been made of the rumor that Mr. Ray purportedly played “God” at one point during the Retreat. He played this role exactly once, on Tuesday afternoon, when participants played the Samurai Game. But this was no cult practice."

The experience cost $9,695. And, as if paying money to be trapped in a coal-heated, plastic-wrapped, life-threatening wigwam in the middle of the desert with 50 fellow "spiritual warriors," then watching them die before your very eyes, weren't bad enough, James Arthur Ray is apparently not letting up on his New Age bullsh!t: He brought a "channeler" into a conference call with the surviving, likely PTSD-ridden, sweat lodge participants (victims).

She explained that the spiritual warriors' deceased peers were not, in fact, the victims of homicide — rather, they had powerful out-of-body experiences and it was "so much fun" that they decided not to come back.



UPDATE 06/22/2011: James Arthur Ray Found Guilty of Three Counts of Reckless Homicide in "Sweat Lodge" Trial

CAMP VERDE, Ariz. (AP) "A jury has convicted a self-help author who led a sweat lodge ceremony in Arizona that left three people dead.

Jurors in Camp Verde, Ariz., reached their verdict Wednesday after a four-month trial.

James Arthur Ray was found guilty of three counts of negligent homicide.

More than 50 people participated in the October 2009 sweat lodge that was meant to be the highlight of Ray's five-day "Spiritual Warrior" seminar near Sedona, Arizona.

Three people died following the sauna-like ceremony meant to provide spiritual cleansing. Eighteen were hospitalized, while others were treated at the scene. Prosecutors and defense attorneys disagreed over whether the deaths and illnesses were caused by heat or toxins.

Ray's attorneys have maintained the deaths were a tragic accident. Prosecutors argued Ray recklessly caused the fatalities."




I haven't heard about any response yet from Oprah about her BFF's felony negligent homicide convictions, but it is probably a safe bet that Oprah's reponse will be a good illustration of that age old profound saying: "The silence is deafening."

Either that, or maybe she already has a book written about the whole thing, and will cleverly release it now to achieve maximum sales $$$. Nah, someone as wonderful as Oprah would NEVER be that cynical, cunning and ruthless, would she??

Stay tuned... :)

This occult, quasi-new age bible has "traveled through centuries" to deceive many, including Oprah Winfrey, Lady Gaga and many other celebs.

In early 2007, Ray took over Oprah’s couch for two highly-rated shows devoted to 'The Secret', a New Age documentary purporting to unlock the mysteries of life and the universe, and show the way to happiness and success.

Among its teachings are gems like "Fall in love with money" and "Resist nothing, ever". There is absolutely zero difference between "The Secret" and Aleister Crowley's infamous "Do What Thou Wilt" - other than the new and improved marketing approach and PR tactics, of course.

New glossy, seductive packaging selling the same ancient lies.






Playboy, Hugh Hefner and 'The Girls Next Door'

The Playboy magazine empire and Hugh Hefner should actually be categories unto themselves, but because the tv show 'The Girls Next Door' is currently popular, this seems like a workable place to address them.

Hugh Hefner, Mastermind of the Playboy Empire


Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926) is an American magazine publisher, founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises. In 2003, Arena magazine listed him second on the "50 Most Powerful People in Porn" list.

Hefner served as a writer for a military newspaper in the U.S. Army from 1944-1946. He later graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.A. in psychology with a double minor in creative writing and art in 1949, earning his degree in two and a half years. After graduation, he took a semester of graduate courses in sociology and women and gender studies at Northwestern University but dropped out soon after.

Hefner married Northwestern University student Mildred Williams in 1949. They had two children, Christie (born November 8, 1952) and David (born August 30, 1955). Before the wedding, Mildred confessed that she had had an affair while he was away in the Army; he called the admission "the most devastating moment of my life." A 2006 E! True Hollywood Story profile of Hefner revealed that Mildred allowed him to sleep with other women, out of guilt for her infidelity and in the hopes that it would preserve their marriage. They divorced in 1959.

Hefner remade himself as a bon vivant and man about town, a lifestyle he promoted in his magazine and two TV shows he hosted, Playboy's Penthouse (1959–1960) and Playboy After Dark (1969–1970). He admitted to being "'involved' with maybe eleven out of twelve months' worth of Playmates" during some of these years.

Donna Michelle, Marilyn Cole, Lillian Müller, Shannon Tweed, Brande Roderick, Barbi Benton, Karen Christy, Sondra Theodore, and Carrie Leigh - who filed a $35 million alimony suit against him - were a few of his many partners. In 1971, he acknowledged that he experimented in bisexuality and moved from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Hefner then began to move an ever-changing coterie of young women into the Mansion, even dating up to seven girls at once; among them, Brande Roderick, Izabella St. James, Tina Marie Jordan, Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson. The reality television series 'The Girls Next Door' depicted the lives of Madison, Wilkinson and Marquardt at the Playboy Mansion.

In October 2008, all three girls made the choice to leave the mansion. Hefner was quick to rebound and soon began dating his new "Number One" girlfriend, Crystal Harris, along with 20-year-old identical twin models Kristina and Karissa Shannon. The relationship with the twins ended in January 2010.


The Girls Next Door

Kendra Wilkinson, Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt

Hef and his girls





American Idol

Simon Cowell

Paula Abdul

Randy Jackson

Portia DeRossi and Ellen Degeneres



Television News Media


CNN

Anderson Hays Cooper was born on June 3, 1967, in New York City, the younger son of the writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and the artist, designer, writer, and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, and is a great-great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt of the prominent Vanderbilt shipping fortune.

Having been to Newport, RI and toured the surreal Vanderbilt mansion (the main house itself is over an acre!), let me tell you, there is some serious wealth in that family. Enough wealth for many generations, similar to that of the better known elite families such as the Rockefellers, J.P. Morgans, Rothschilds, etc.




"Mr. Charming"

Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television.

As a philanthropist, he is known for his $1 billion gift to support UN causes, which created the United Nations Foundation, a public charity to broaden support for the UN. Turner serves as Chairman of the United Nations Foundation board of directors.

Turner once called observers of Ash Wednesday "Jesus freaks", though he apologized, and dubbed opponents of abortion "bozos."

In 2008, Turner also received attention when he asserted on PBS's Charlie Rose television program that if steps aren't taken to address global warming, "Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals." In the same interview, Turner also said he advocated drastically cutting the U.S. military budget, and Americans having no more than 2 children.

Ted's former wife, "Hanoi Jane" Fonda

Larry King

Matt Lauer and his (soon to be ex?) wife, Annette

Katie Couric






Chapter Six: The Movie Stars

Angelina Jolie, the beautiful product of yet another “showbiz family”.


You probably already know many of the odd things about her - carrying the vial of blood around her neck, etc. Bloodlines, indeed.

Ahh, those eyes.






The Bridges

Beau Bridges, Lloyd Bridges and Jeff Bridges

Beau and Jeff Bridges

Beau and Jeff Bridges







Dennis Hopper

[UPDATE: Dennis Hopper died on May 29, 2010, after a battle with prostate cancer.]

Rest in Peace, Dennis.


Dennis Lee Hopper (born May 17, 1936) is an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1955, and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, 'Rebel Without a Cause' (1955) and 'Giant' (1956).

Over the next ten years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films. He directed and starred in 'Easy Rider' (1969), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer of the film's script.

Hopper was born in Dodge City, Kansas, the son of Marjorie Mae (née Davis) Jay Millard Hopper. After World War II, the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where the young Hopper attended Saturday art classes at the Kansas City Art Institute taught by Thomas Hart Benton.

At the age of 13, Hopper and his family moved to San Diego, where his mother worked as a lifeguard instructor and his father was a post office manager (Hopper has acknowledged, though, that his father was in the OSS, the precursor to the CIA).

Hopper was voted most likely to succeed by his high school class (Helix High School, La Mesa, California, a suburb of San Diego). It was there he developed an interest in acting, studying at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California and the Actors Studio in New York City (studied with Lee Strasberg for five years). Hopper struck up a friendship with actor Vincent Price, whose passion for art influenced Hopper's interest in art. He was especially fond of the plays of William Shakespeare.


Easy Rider

In 1969, Hopper teamed with Peter Fonda, Terry Southern, and Jack Nicholson to make 'Easy Rider'. Hopper won wide acclaim as the director for his improvisational methods and innovative editing. The production was plagued by creative differences and personal acrimony between Fonda and Hopper, the dissolution of Hopper's marriage to Hayward, his unwillingness to leave the editor's desk, and his accelerating abuse of drugs and alcohol.

Peter Fonda and his father, Henry.

Jack Nicholson

During the tumultuous editing process, Hopper ensconced himself in Taos, New Mexico for almost an entire year. In between contesting Fonda's rights to the majority of the residual profits from Easy Rider, he married Michelle Phillips in October 1970. Citing spousal abuse and his various addictions, she filed for divorce a week after their wedding.

Hopper was able to sustain his lifestyle and a measure of celebrity by acting in numerous low budget and European films throughout the 1970s as the archetypical "tormented maniac". With Francis Ford Coppola's blockbuster 'Apocalypse Now' (1979), Hopper returned to prominence as a hypomanic Vietnam-era photojournalist. Stepping in for an overwhelmed director, production was reportedly often delayed by his unreliable behavior.

Peter Biskind states in the New Hollywood history 'Easy Riders', Raging Bulls' that Hopper's cocaine intake had reached three grams a day by this time period, complemented by an additional thirty beers, marijuana, and Cuba libres.

After staging a "suicide attempt" (really more of a daredevil act) in a coffin using 17 sticks of dynamite during an "art happening" at the Rice University Media Center (reportedly filmed by film professor Brian Huberman) and later disappearing into the Mexican desert during a particularly extravagant bender, Hopper entered a drug rehabilitation program in 1983. During this period, he gave critically-acclaimed performances in Rumble Fish (1983) and The Osterman Weekend (1983).




Blue Velvet

Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rossellini in 'Blue Velvet'

It was not until Hopper portrayed the gas-huffing, obscenity-screaming iconic villain Frank Booth in David Lynch's 'Blue Velvet' (1986) that his career revived. After reading the script, Hopper called Lynch and told him "You have to let me play Frank Booth. Because I am Frank Booth!” Hopper won critical acclaim and several awards for this role.

Blue Velvet centers around a college student, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), who, upon returning from visiting his ill father in hospital, comes across a human ear in a grass field in his idealized American hometown of Lumberton. He proceeds to investigate the ear with help from a high school student, Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), who provides him with information and leads from her father, a local police detective.

Jeffrey's investigation draws him deeper into his hometown's seedy underworld, and sees him forming a sexual relationship with the alluring torch singer, Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini), who may be connected to the ear, and uncovering a breed of criminals, including Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper), who engage in drug abuse and sexual violence. Booth’s bizarre sexual proclivities include inhaling Nitrous Oxide, dry humping, and sadomasochism — upon Dorothy.

Frank is an extremely foul-mouthed, violent sociopath whose orgasmic climax is a fit of both pleasure and rage. Frank has kidnapped Dorothy's husband and son to force her to perform sexual favors. When Frank leaves, a sad and desperate Dorothy tries to seduce Jeffrey again and demands that he hit her, but when he refuses, she loses interest in sex and asks to be left alone.

Director David Lynch's 'Blue Velvet'

Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern

Laura Dern was born on February 10, 1967 into a moviemaking family - her father is Bruce Dern and her mother is Diane Ladd. Dern was exposed to movie sets and the movie industry from infancy, and obtained several bit parts as a child. Her parents divorced when Dern was two and Dern lost contact with her father for several years as a result.

Her parents' background and her own early taste of the moviemaking world soon convinced the young Dern to pursue acting herself. Like so many young actors, her decision may have been influenced by social awkwardness -- the child of 60s counterculture parents, she was steeped in Eastern mysticism and political radicalism, and was seen as an oddball by her more conservative classmates.

Her gawky physical appearance didn't help - even before her teens, she had achieved most of her impressive 5' 10" height, was rail-skinny (other than precociously wide hips), had huge feet and a slouching posture, and for all this was often teased by classmates. Perhaps the nine-year-old Dern found refuge by studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.

Bruce Dern was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Jean (née MacLeish) and John Dern. His paternal grandfather was George Henry Dern, a former Utah governor and Secretary of War, and his uncle was poet Archibald MacLeish. His godfather was well-known politician Adlai Stevenson and his godmother was Eleanor Roosevelt.

Dern attended The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) and the University of Pennsylvania. Dern is the father of actress Laura Dern (1967), whom he had with his ex-wife Diane Ladd; married 1960-1969. He married his current wife, Andrea Beckett, in 1969.



Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Rossellini is the daughter of the two legends Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman. She is 34 minutes older than twin sister, Isotta. Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as 'Blue Velvet' and 'Death Becomes Her'.

Isabella Rossellini was engaged to director David Lynch from 1986 to 1990.

Ingrid Bergman and daughter Isabella Rossellini

Laura Dern, Isabella Rossilini and Kyle MacLachlan in 'Blue Velvet'






Brittany Murphy

Brittany Anne Murphy was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 10, 1977. Her parents, Sharon Kathleen Murphy and Angelo Bertolotti, divorced when she was two years old, and Murphy was raised by her mother in Edison, New Jersey.

Brittany and her family would later live in Los Angeles, where they moved so Murphy could pursue an acting career. Murphy's mother is of Irish and Eastern European descent and her father is Italian American. She was raised a Baptist and later became a non-denominational Christian.

Brittany Murphy kept her father’s identity a closely guarded secret. He is Angelo Bertolotti, a notorious 64-year-old tough guy of Italian descent who is said to have had links to the mafia. Bertolotti did time at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta (apparently on federal drug charges) for a criminal career said to cover 20 years.

In late 2002, Murphy began dating Ashton Kutcher, her co-star in 'Just Married'. Once engaged to talent manager Jeff Kwatinetz, Murphy became engaged to Joe Macaluso in December 2005, a production assistant she met while working on the film 'Little Black Book'. In August 2006, they ended their engagement.

In May 2007, Murphy married British screenwriter Simon Monjack in a private Jewish ceremony in Los Angeles. For the last three and a half years of her life, Murphy, her mother and Monjack lived together in the same house.

At 08:00 on December 20, 2009, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to "a medical request" at the Los Angeles home Murphy and Monjack shared. She had apparently collapsed in a bathroom. Firefighters attempted to resuscitate Murphy on the scene. She was transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead on arrival at 10:04 after going into cardiac arrest.

Shortly after her death, Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter told the Associated Press: "It appears to be natural." An autopsy was performed on December 21, 2009. Her death certificate listed the cause of death as "deferred".

On February 4, 2010, the Los Angeles County coroner stated that the primary cause of Murphy's death was pneumonia, with secondary factors of iron-deficiency anemia and multiple drug intoxication.

On February 25, 2010, the coroner released a report stating that Murphy had been taking a range of over the counter and prescription medications, with the most likely reason being to treat a cold or respiratory infection. These included "elevated levels" of hydrocodone (Vicodin), acetaminophen, L-methamphetamine and chlorpheniramine.

All of the drugs were legal and the death was ruled to be an accident, but the report observed: "the possible adverse physiological effects of elevated levels of these medications cannot be discounted, especially in her weakened state".

Murphy was buried at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills on December 24, 2009.

Brittany's father, Angelo, said about his daughter's tragic passing (via Us magazine): "There is nothing I can say, I can't believe this is happening. She was a young 32. She wasn't supposed to die like this."

He apparently hadn't seen his daughter since she married British director Simon Monjack in 2007. Bertolotti said, "Ever since she married that Simon, I lost contact with her. But I always kept track of her to make sure she was OK in case she needed me. She married him and everything changed. After that, we weren't so close."

Troubled starlet Brittany Murphy filled a prescription for the painkiller Vicodin just 11 days before her death late last year but 109 pills were missing when she was found collapsed in her home Dec. 20, The New York Post reported Saturday, citing a coroner's office report.

The gossip web site TMZ is also reporting Saturday that the LA coroner's office can't locate the doctor who issued the prescription. It isn't clear why Murphy was prescribed the painkiller. Vicodin is supposed to be taken no more than four times daily, the site reported, making the max she should have taken in that time would be 44 instead of 109.

TMZ is also reporting that coroner's officials have reached out to Murphy's husband, Simon Monjack, to help locate the missing doctor, but came away empty handed.

The late Brittany Murphy received hundreds of pills a month from a Los Angeles pharmacy using aliases like Lola Manilow Murphy, a report on TMZ.com claims.

Pharmacy records from Eddie's Pharmacy show the doomed 'Clueless' star received "no fewer than 200 pills, and sometimes as many as 400" every month from January 2008 through August 2009, according to the site. Owner Eddie Bubar said he cut off Murphy, her mother Sharon and husband Simon Monjack four months before Murphy's death in December. "We thought there was going to be an accident there," he told TMZ.

The more than 100 prescriptions for the trio reportedly included Vicodin, Klonopin and other drugs. Drug intoxication was listed as a secondary factor in Murphy's cause of death by the Los Angeles County Coroner. The actress was suffering from pneumonia and anemia, which intensified the effects of her prescriptions, the autopsy report said. The report officially ruled Murphy's death an accident.

Simon Monjack slammed earlier TMZ reports that claimed only 11 out of 120 Vicodin pills were left in a prescription Murphy had obtained just 11 days before her death. He said the pills belonged to Sharon Murphy, a cancer survivor who suffers from neuropathy.

He confirmed to the site that he and Murphy used aliases to obtain their prescriptions, but only to protect their privacy. "You know how this town is," Monjack told TMZ. "We're the ones who cut Eddie's Pharmacy off."

So, who is the late Brittany Murphy’s husband, Simon Monjack? Some have given him the nickname “Con-Jack”, as in con-man. Here’s an interesting article from the NY Daily News.

Simon Monjack is a screenwriter who hasn't done much work recently. He was behind 'Factory Girl' and did indeed write and direct a film called 'Two Days, Nine Lives' that wasn't very successful. But Murphy's friends have been warning her off him for a while.

The guy's had a past, and a substantial one at that: Among his troubles are two warrants for his arrest in Virginia for alleged credit-card theft and fraud; an unpaid $6,087 legal bill, and a $502,910 judgment against him by a British investment firm.

And Us Weekly reports that Monjack gave his former fiancée, British film producer Taira Rafiq, an engagement ring he had told her was a diamond but was, in fact, cubic zirconia. “Taira tried to get in touch with Brittany to warn her,” a Rafiq pal tells Us.

Monjack also was jailed earlier this year for overstaying his tourist visa, and Murphy, 29, had to bail him out. “Simon began pushing for marriage, since he was going to be deported,” says a source, adding that Murphy paid for her own engagement ring.

Simon Monjack is also a photographer, and this is his logo. The phrase "Illegitimi Non Carborundum" may look like Latin, but it doesn't exactly translate to "Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down". Carborundum is actually the name of an extremely hard mineral (silicon carbide) used for grinding. Illegitimi suggests illegitimate, but it really has no meaning in Latin.

The phrase actually originated during World War II and is attributed to British Army Intelligence. It was later adopted by US Army General "Vinegar" Joe Stillwell as his war-time motto.

Here are some examples of Simon Monjack’s photography work. The words “extremely disturbing” are probably quite an understatement, so please consider yourselves forewarned.

No comment necessary.

A very sick bit of fantasy - and perhaps, foreshadowing?

The look of dissociation and the all-too familiar “One Eye”.

Subtle pink Monarch positioning and classic dehumanization, female objectification.

If this one doesn’t tell us something important, I don’t know what will.


Rest in Peace, Brittany Murphy.



[UPDATE: Within minutes (literally minutes!) of doing final edits and prepraring to hit that magic "Publish" button to blast A Brief History of Stars - Part Two, out into the world, I received  some updates from two very on top of their game readers at PseudOccult Media, who advised me about the shocking (albeit not entirely surprising) news flash that Simon Monjack had been found dead. (So, bravo to Marty/MK and Lori in breaking the news) that Simon Monjack’s body was discovered on the evening of Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 by Brittany Murphy’s mother, Sharon Murphy. She called 911 and the responding firefighters found Monjack dead upon arrival. Sharon Murphy, who continued to live in the same house with Simon Monjack after Brittany Murphy’s death, also discovered her daughter the day she died.

According to Assistant Los Angeles County Chief Coroner Ed Winter, Simon Monjack “had a huge number of medicines by his bedside”. The presence of the prescription medicines has led the Coroner’s Office to believe that Monjack may have either died of a heart attack, a drug overdose or a heart attack induced by the medicines he was taking.

Of course, the presence of prescription drugs does not necessarily mean they were used or in use. Simon Monjack’s cause of death may have been the result of any number of contributing factors. It usually takes between four to six weeks to receive all the various toxicology tests and drug screening results, at which time the Coroner’s office will deliver a final autopsy report and make a cause of death determination, if possible."]





Gwenyth Paltrow

Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Blythe Danner, an actress, and Bruce Paltrow, a film and television director and producer. Paltrow's father was of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent and her mother is a Quaker of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. Paltrow's paternal great-grandfather, whose surname was "Paltrowicz", was a rabbi in Krakow, Poland.

In her early twenties, Paltrow was engaged for six months to Brad Pitt, whom she dated from December 1994 to May 1997. The engagement was called off, according to Paltrow, because she wasn't ready for marriage and later felt responsible for hurting Pitt since she was "such a mess" during that time in her life.

Paltrow had an on-off three year relationship with Ben Affleck from 1997 to late 2000. They first dated from November 1997 to January 1999. Soon after their breakup, Paltrow convinced Affleck to work in the film Bounce with her; during the making of the film, which was shot in mid 1999, the couple started dating again and eventually broke up in October 2000.

She was friends with Winona Ryder until her first breakup with Affleck in 1999. Their friendship allegedly ended because Ryder accused Paltrow of stealing the female lead role in 'Shakespeare in Love' from her.

On 5 December 2003, Paltrow married Chris Martin (of the British rock group Coldplay), whom she had met at a concert, in a ceremony at a hotel in Southern California. On 14 May 2004, the couple had their first child, a girl named Apple Blythe Alison Martin.

Paltrow explained the unusual first name on Oprah, saying: "It sounded so sweet and it conjured such a lovely picture for me – you know, apples are so sweet and they're wholesome and it's Biblical – and I just thought it sounded so lovely and … clean! And I just thought, 'Perfect!'"

Her second child, a boy named Moses Bruce Anthony Martin, was born on 8 April 2006, in New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital. Her son's first name was explained as the song, entitled "Moses", that her husband wrote for her before their wedding.




Winona Ryder

Born Winona Laura Horowitz in Olmsted County, Minnesota, she was named after the nearby city of Winona. She was given her middle name, Laura, because of her parents' friendship with Aldous Huxley's wife, Laura Huxley.

Her mother, Cynthia Palmer (née Istas), is an author, as well as a video producer and editor. Her father, Michael Horowitz, is an author, editor, publisher and antiquarian bookseller. Ryder's mother is a Buddhist and her father is an atheist.

Ryder has described herself as Jewish; her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. Ryder has one full sibling, a younger brother, Uri (named in honor of the first Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin), an older half-brother, Jubal, and an older half-sister, Sunyata. Ryder's family friends included her godfather, LSD guru Timothy Leary, beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick.

In 1978, when Ryder was seven years old, she and her family relocated to Rainbow, a (hippie) commune near Elk, Mendocino County, California, where they lived with seven other families on a 300-acre plot of land. As the remote property had no electricity or television sets, Ryder began to devote her time to reading and became an avid fan of J. D. Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye'. She developed an interest in acting after her mother showed her a few movies on a screen in the family barn.

Winona Ryder and attorney Mark Geragos in court

On December 12, 2001, Ryder was arrested on shoplifting charges in Beverly Hills, California. She was accused of stealing $5,500 worth of designer clothes and accessories at a Saks Fifth Avenue department store. Los Angeles District Attorney Stephen Cooley produced a team of eight prosecutors. Cooley filed four felony charges against her in what was described by British newspaper The Guardian as a "show-trial".

Ryder hired noted celebrity defense attorney Mark Geragos. Negotiations for a plea bargain failed at the end of summer 2002. As noted by Joel Mowbray from the National Review, the prosecution was not ready to offer the actress what was given to 5,000 other defendants in similar cases, an open door to a no-contest plea on misdemeanor charges.

LOL

Ryder agreed under signature to pay two Civil Demands, as permitted under California's Statute for Civil Recovery for Shoplifting, from Saks Fifth Avenue that would completely reimburse Saks Fifth Avenue for the stolen and surrendered merchandise while detained in the Security Offices of the Saks Fifth Avenue store, and before she was read her Miranda rights and arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department.

During the trial, she was accused of using drugs without valid prescriptions. Ryder was convicted of grand theft and vandalism, but was acquitted on the third felony charge, burglary. In December 2002, she was sentenced to three years' probation, 480 hours of community service, $3,700 in fines, and $6,355 in restitution to the Saks Fifth Avenue store — and was ordered to attend psychological and drug counseling.

After reviewing Ryder's probation report, Superior Court Judge Elden Fox noted that Ryder served 480 hours of community service and on June 18, 2004, the felonies were reduced to misdemeanors. Ryder remained on probation until December 2005.

In the aftermath, Winona Ryder expressed no remorse for being a thief. In a 2007 Vogue interview, she said, "I didn't have this tremendous sense of guilt, because I hadn't hurt anyone. Had I physically harmed someone or caused harm to a human being, I think it would have been an entirely different experience."

Her personal reaction, she says, was "I never said a word. I didn't release a statement. I didn't do anything. I just waited for it to be over."

Still, she says, "The attention was what was embarrassing." She also expresses dismay that one day the news of her arrest topped stories on the supposed capture of Osama bin Laden.

Ryder – who was convicted of grand theft – explains that life had been bumpy for her just before the arrest. "Two months prior to that, I broke my arm in two places, and the doctor, a sort of quack doctor, was giving me a lot of stuff and I was taking it at first to get through the pain. And then there was this weird point when you don't know if you are in pain but you're taking it."

She said painkillers of the type she was on – such as Oxycodone, which is the same drug as OxyContin, but not in extended–release form - left her in a state of "confusion", but that her arrest "in a very weird way, was a blessing, because I couldn't do that [painkillers] anymore."


So, Winona doesn't feel badly for stealing or anything, she only feels ashamed and embarrased that she got caught - this is a very typical reaction of criminals, in my experience. It's always a little different, though, when someone else steals that $5,500 worth of stuff from you, isn't it? :)

Oh, and she's kinda pissed that her crimes (and conviction) got as much attention as Osama Bin Laden - I might have to agree with her about that part being a case of extremely confused priorities on the part of the mass media.





Winona's family friend, Allan Ginsberg

Ginsberg, a famous 1960s hippie and LSD "beat poet", also spoke out in defense of the freedom of expression of the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). In "Thoughts on NAMBLA", a 1994 essay published in the collection Deliberate Prose, Ginsberg stated, "I joined NAMBLA in defense of free speech."

In the essay, he referred to NAMBLA "as a forum for reform of those laws on youthful sexuality which members deem oppressive, a discussion society not a sex club." Ginsberg expressed the opinion that the appreciation of youthful bodies and "the human form divine" has been a common theme throughout the history of culture, "from Rome's Vatican to Florence's Uffizi galleries to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art", and that laws regarding the issue needed to be more openly discussed.

In an interview for the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review he said:

"Everybody likes little kids. All you've got to do is walk through the Vatican and see all the little statues of little prepubescents, pubescents and postpubescents. Naked kids have been a staple of delight for centuries, for both parents and onlookers." — Intermountain Jewish News

He resigned from NAMBLA in 1994, after making his "free speech point".

Allan Ginsberg and his long-time partner, Peter Orlovsky


Ginsberg also talked often about drug use. Throughout the 1960s he took an active role in the demystification of LSD, and, with Timothy Leary, worked to promote its common use. He was also for many decades an advocate of marijuana legalization, and, at the same time, warned his audiences against the hazards of tobacco in his 'Put Down Your Cigarette Rag (Don't Smoke)': "Don't Smoke Don't Smoke Nicotine Nicotine No / No don't smoke the official Dope Smoke Dope Dope."

Interestingly, "natural marijuana smoke" has been shown in numerous studies to contain 50–70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than "processed tobacco smoke" does. Marijuana smokers also usually inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than tobacco smokers do, which further increases the lungs’ exposure to carcinogenic smoke, as well as just generally being an irritant to the lungs. (Source: NIDA)

But, as usual, I don't suppose Ginsberg and other proponents of marijuana legalization are really too concerned about whether weed is "healthier" than tobacco, they simply want their drug of choice legalized. Like most special interest groups, they want what they want. Period.

Julia and Eric Roberts

Eric Roberts





Cameron Diaz

Diaz began her career as a fashion model at age 16. She signed with top modeling agency Elite Model Management. After graduating from high school, she went to work in Japan and met video director Carlos de la Torre. On her return to the U.S., she moved in with him and had a five-year relationship from the time she was 17 until she was about 21.

For the next few years, her modeling took her around the world, working for contracts with major companies. She modeled for designers such as Calvin Klein and Levi's. She was featured on the cover of the July 1990 issue of Seventeen magazine.

When asked if she can speak Spanish, she said: “I go, 'God, you know, it all sounds so familiar. I know what you're saying, I really do. I just cannot respond to you back in Spanish. I can barely speak English properly.'”




The Modern Manchurian Candidate

Liev Schreiber and Denzel Washington in 'The Manchurian Candidate'

Denzel Washington and Liev Schreiber






Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress and author. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in many horror films early in her career such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train. Curtis has since compiled a body of work that covers many genres.

Curtis was born in Los Angeles, California, the child of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Her paternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants. Curtis's parents divorced in 1962 and her mother then married Robert Brandt. Curtis has an older sister, Kelly Curtis, who is also an actress, and several half-siblings (all from her father's remarriages), Alexandra, Allegra, Ben, and Nicholas Curtis (who died in 1994 of a drug overdose).

Curtis attended both Westlake School in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills High School, but graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall. Returning to California in 1976, Jamie attended the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.

Curtis married actor Christopher Guest on December 18, 1984, becoming Lady Haden-Guest when her husband inherited the Barony of Haden-Guest in 1996, upon the death of his father. The couple has two adopted children. In addition, Curtis is actor Jake Gyllenhaal's godmother.

Curtis was an alcoholic who was also once addicted to pain killers that she started using after a routine cosmetic surgical procedure. She got sober in 1999 and maintains that recovery is the greatest achievement of her life.

Jamie Lee Curtis with her mother, Janet Leigh; and her father, Tony Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis with her adopted son and daughter, Thomas and Annie, at the premiere for 'Avatar'

Jake and Maggie Gyllenhall





Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba was born in Pomona, California to Catherine Alba (née Jensen) and Mark Alba. Her mother is of Danish and French Canadian descent and her father is Mexican American, though both of his parents were born in California. Her father's Air Force career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi, and Del Rio, Texas before settling back in California when she was nine years old.

Alba described her family as being a "very conservative family — a traditional, Catholic, Latin American family" and herself as very liberal; she says she had identified herself as a "feminist" as early as age five.

Alba has said that her family's frequent moving also contributed to her isolation from her peers. She has also acknowledged that she has suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder during her childhood.

Alba was raised as a Christian in the Catholic denomination throughout her teenage years, but left the church after four years because she felt she was being judged for her appearance, explaining: "Older men would hit on me, and my youth pastor said it was because I was wearing provocative clothing, when I wasn't. It just made me feel like if I was in any way desirable to the opposite sex that it was my fault, and it made me ashamed of my body and being a woman".

Alba also had objections to the church's condemnations of premarital sex and homosexuality, and the lack of strong female role models in the Bible, explaining "I thought it was a nice guide, but it certainly wasn't how I was going to live my life."

Her "religious devotion [began] to wane" at the age of 15 when she guest-starred as a teenager with gonorrhea in the throat in a 1996 episode of the television series 'Chicago Hope'. Her friends at church reacted negatively to her role, making her lose faith in the church. However, she has stated that she still holds her belief in God despite leaving the church.

While filming 'Dark Angel' in January 2000, Alba began a three year relationship with her co-star Michael Weatherly, which caused controversy due to their twelve year age gap. Weatherly proposed to Alba on her twentieth birthday, which she accepted. In August 2003, Alba and Weatherly announced that they'd ended their relationship.

In July 2007, Alba spoke out about the break up, saying "I don't know [why I got engaged]. I was a virgin. He was 12 years older than me. I thought he knew better. My parents weren't happy. They're really religious. They believe God wouldn't allow the Bible to be written if it wasn't what they are supposed to believe. I'm completely different."

Alba had at one time said she envisioned a much older man as her ideal partner, making references to Morgan Freeman, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, and Michael Caine.

She said, "I have this thing for older men. They've been around and know so much."







Megan Fox

Note the tattoo on left: "We will all laugh at gilded butterflies."

Gilded (definition):

1. To cover with or as if with a thin layer of gold.
2. To give an often deceptively attractive or improved appearance to.
3. Archaic: To make bloody.

From William Shakespeare's, 'King Lear':

"We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage…/ …so we'll live,/ And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh/ At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues/ Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,/ Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;/ And take upon 's the mystery of things,/ As if we were God's spies…" - King Lear, Act V, Scene 3

"King Lear and his beloved daughter Cordelia are being led away to prison. By this time, he is blind and realizes his other two daughters Regan and Goneriel have lied to him and betrayed him for the sake of his fortune.

Only Cordelia is loyal to him and only she was honest to him in the beginning - even though at the time her answer angered him. He is talking about life in the court and how they shall spend their days listening to gossip of the court and laughing at their extravagence - like gilded butterflies. It is Lear's hope to live a simple life and come to enjoy the company of his beautiful and loving daughter Cordelia.

Remember, a gilded butterfly cannot fly - it is just as much a prisoner as he is. He realizes that in the beginning, his question to his three daughters and his wealth meant nothing to him - there are no gilded butterflies that can replace a daughter's loyalty and love. It is a beautiful and simple quote."


[Given the nature of Megan Fox's acting abilities and her highly sexualized career focus, it seems fairly safe to assume that this tattoo's mention of a "trapped, yet beautiful, butterfly" may signify more than just her devotion as a fan of Shakespeare.]

Megan Fox in 'Jennifer’s Body'

Keira Knightley





Dakota Fanning

Hannah Dakota Fanning (born February 23, 1994), better known simply as Dakota Fanning, is an American actress. Her father had wanted to name her "Dakota" and her mother wanted to name her "Hannah".

Fanning's breakthrough performance was in 'I Am Sam' in 2001. As a child actress, she appeared in high-profile films such as 'Man on Fire', 'War of the Worlds', and 'Charlotte's Web'.
Fanning began transitioning to more adult roles with 'Hounddog' and 'The Secret Life of Bees'. She has won numerous awards and is the youngest person ever to have been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Over the summer of 2006, Fanning worked on the film 'Hounddog', described in press reports as a "dark story of abuse, violence and Elvis Presley adulation in the rural South." Fanning's parents have been criticized for allowing her to film a scene in which her character is raped.

However, in response, Fanning said that "It's not really happening," to Reuters. "It's a movie, and it's called acting." Director Deborah Kampmeier addressed the controversy in the January 2007 edition of Premiere: "The assumption that [Dakota] was violated in order to give this performance denies her talent."





“The Brat Pack”

Appearance in one, or both, of the ensemble casts of John Hughes' 'The Breakfast Club' and Joel Schumacher's 'St. Elmo's Fire' is often cited as a prerequisite for being a core Brat Pack member. With this criterion, the most commonly cited members include Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy.

Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Anthony-Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez and Molly Ringwald, in 'The Breakfast Club'

James Spader and Robert Downey, Jr. have also been considered members and appeared in several films alongside other Brat Packers, most notably together with Andrew McCarthy in 'Less Than Zero' (Downey was also in two eighties films with Anthony Michael Hall - 'Weird Science' and 'Johnny Be Good', as well as 'The Pick-up Artist' with Ringwald). Other actors who have been linked with the group include Jon Cryer, John Cusack, Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Matthew Broderick, Sean Penn, and Kiefer Sutherland.

Robert Downey, Jr., Jon Cryer, Jamie Gertz, Molly Ringwald, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy and Anthony Michael Hall

James Spader and Rob Lowe

John Cusack and Joan Cusack

Matthew Broderick in 'Ferris Bueller’s Day Off'

Robert Downey, Jr. and Andrew McCarthy

Young Demi Moore

Demi Moore was born Demi Gene Guynes in Roswell, New Mexico. As a child she had a difficult and unstable home life. Her biological father, Charles Harmon, left her mother Virginia King, after a two-month marriage before Moore was born. As a result, Moore had the surname of her stepfather Danny Guynes on her birth certificate. Danny Guynes, who committed suicide in 1980, frequently changed jobs; as a result the family moved a total of forty times. Moore's parents were alcoholics and often fought and beat each other.

She is a practicing follower of Philip Berg's Kabbalah Centre religion, and initiated husband Ashton Kutcher into the faith, having said that she "didn’t grow up Jewish, but... would say that [she has] been more exposed to the deeper meanings of particular rituals than any of [her] friends that did".

Her daugher, Scout, also notices a change that overtook her mother - ever since Moore took up studying Kabbalah. "She has always moved from religion to religion according to the stages in her life," says the teen. "Kabbalah is the one she has stuck with the most. I respect that she and Ashton are doing it."

What is Kabbalah?

Hebrew for "received tradition," Kabbalah refers to the study of ancient texts, most notably the Zohar, a 13th-century commentary on the Torah (the five books of Moses). Kabbalah holds that God is made up of 10 "emanations", which include compassion, strength, wisdom and grace. By studying them, Kabbalists believe humans can get closer to an unknowable God.

Originally "elitist and secretive", says Fishbane, Kabbalah is considered by some Jewish leaders to be the purview of men over 40 who have studied the Torah for years. But today many religious centers and universities offer beginners a more accessible version. One of the best known: the Kabbalah Centre, which claims 400,000 students — including Madonna, Demi Moore and other stars — in 50 locations.

Many theologians frown on those who look to Kabbalah for a quick spiritual high. The Kabbalah Centre has drawn particular criticism. "It's a very slick operation that has very little to do with traditional Kabbalah," says bestselling author and Kabbalah scholar Rabbi Lawrence Kushner. "They are to Kabbalah what Disneyland is to the Metropolitan Opera: There's a lot of hoopla and fun, but there ain't much opera."

Water - Sold at Kabbalah Centres for two bucks a bottle, "Kabbalah water" (a Madonna favorite) is spring water blessed by a rabbi and "imbued with positive energy," says the Centre's Rabbi Yehuda Berg (who teaches Madonna). Scholar Fishbane dismisses the notion as "a new mystic invention."

Necklaces - The Kabbalah Centre says this one helps protect from "the evil eye".

T-shirts - They sport Hebrew letters, like Madonna's tattoo in her Die Another Day video, that the Centre says aid in "destroying your ego".

The "Red String" Bracelets - The well known "Kabbalah Red String", which is worn to receive spiritual guidance and blessings, the red referring to blood and creation, many Kabbalah amulets have biblical inscriptions, and other mystical symbols.

Hamsa jewelry when worn is believed to provide protection and success to the bearer. The "Evil Eye" protection usually refers to the envious eyes of others and actual physical harm. The Hamsa is a very popular charm in many cultures and is sometimes referred to as the "Hand of God” or "Chamsa".


Demi Moore also appeared with her husband Ashton Kutcher in a pro-Obama political advertisement, swearing loyalty to the newly inaugurated President. "I pledge to be a servant to our president, and all mankind."





Mia Farrow

Mia Farrow (born February 9, 1945) is an American actress, singer, and former fashion model. Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award (and seven additional Golden Globe nominations.

Farrow is also notable for her extensive humanitarian work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She advocates for involvement in humanitarian activities in Darfur, Chad, and the Central African Republic. In 2008, she was selected by Time magazine as one of the most influential people in the world. She achieved stardom on the popular primetime soap opera 'Peyton Place' as naive, waif-like Allison MacKenzie, a role she later abandoned at the urging of first husband Frank Sinatra.

Her first leading film role was in 'Rosemary's Baby' (1968), which was a critical and commercial success at the time and continues to be widely regarded as a classic of the horror genre. Written and directed by Roman Polanski, the story is about Farrow's (Rosemary) newborn son - the Antichrist - who will unleash horror and evil, and will rule Earth under the direction of Satan and the coven.

Farrow's performance in 'Rosemary's Baby' garnered numerous awards, including the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, and established her as a leading actress.

Film critic and author Stephen Farber described her performance as having an "electrifying impact… one of the rare instances of actor and character achieving a miraculous, almost mythical match. If Ira Levin's story shrewdly taps into every pregnant woman's fears about the stranger growing inside her, Mia Farrow gives those fears an achingly real and human force".

Film critic Roger Ebert noted that "the brilliance of the film comes more from (Roman) Polanski's direction, and from a series of genuinely inspired performances. The characters emerge as human beings actually doing these things. A great deal of the credit for this achievement must go to Mia Farrow, as Rosemary".


Farrow married singer Frank Sinatra on July 19, 1966, when she was 21 and he was 50. During the production of Farrow's 1968 film 'Rosemary's Baby', after she refused Sinatra's demand that she quit the film to work on his movie 'The Detective', he served her with divorce papers on the 'Rosemary's Baby' set.

Also in 1968, Farrow traveled to India, where she spent the early part of the year at the ashram of the Maharishi in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, studying Transcendental Meditation. Her visit received worldwide media attention due to the presence of all four Beatles, Donovan, and Mike Love(Beach Boys), as well as her sister Prudence Farrow, who inspired John Lennon to write the song 'Dear Prudence'.



Woody Allen and Soon-Yi

In 1980, Mia Farrow began seeing film director Woody Allen. Together they adopted Moses "Misha" Farrow (born 1978, adopted 1980) and Dylan "Eliza" Farrow (born c. 1985, now called Malone). In 1987 Mia gave birth to Satchel O'Sullivan Farrow, now known as Ronan Seamus Farrow. During their relationship, Farrow starred in many of Allen's films, and several of their children also made appearances.

Farrow and Allen parted after Farrow discovered a sexual relationship between Allen and her adopted daughter Soon-Yi. During the subsequent custody battle involving Farrow's and Allen's three children, Farrow filed charges that Allen had molested their daughter Dylan, then seven years old. Allen has adamantly denied the charges.

A doctor concluded that Dylan "either invented the story under the stress of living in a volatile and unhealthy home or that it was planted in her mind by her mother" because Dylan presented the story inconsistently. The charges were dropped to avoid subjecting the child to a court trial, although a judge called Allen's conduct "grossly inappropriate". Farrow ultimately won custody of the children.

During the public fracas, Frank Sinatra allegedly contacted Farrow with an offer to have Allen's legs broken, a courtesy Farrow wrote of in her 1997 autobiography 'What Falls Away'.

Farrow has been estranged from Soon-Yi since Soon-Yi's 1997 marriage to Allen. Farrow called the loss a "tragedy" in The Observer and remarked that "she's not coming back." Farrow said of Soon-Yi: "She was on the streets in Korea when she was captured and brought to the state orphanage. And in a way I can see from her perspective — a very limited perspective — that she's improved her situation. For a little orphan kid from Korea ... Perhaps she's not to be blamed." In a widely circulated quote, Soon-Yi dismissed Farrow as "no Mother Teresa".

In 2008, Farrow spoke to Entertainment Weekly about Allen, suggesting that she had come to terms with what happened, saying, "In the fullness of time, it's that big."





Chapter Seven: The Movie Directors


Roman Polanski

On March 10, 1977, Polanski, then aged 43, was involved in the drugging and rape of 13-year-old Samantha Gailey (now Samantha Geimer). A grand jury charged Polanski with rape by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, lewd and lascivious act upon a child under fourteen, and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor, which ultimately led to Polanski's guilty plea (plea bargain) to the lesser charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

According to Geimer's testimony, Polanski had asked Geimer's mother (a television actress and model) if he could photograph the girl as part of his work for the French edition of Vogue, which Polanski had been invited to guest-edit. Her mother allowed a private photo shoot. Geimer felt uncomfortable during the first session, in which Polanski asked to photograph her topless, and initially did not wish to take part in a second, but nevertheless agreed to another shoot.

This took place on March 10, 1977, at the home of actor Jack Nicholson in the Mulholland area of Los Angeles. At the time of the alleged acts, Nicholson was on a ski trip in Colorado, and his live-in girlfriend Angelica Huston who was there, left, but later returned while Polanski and Geimer were there.

"We did photos with me drinking champagne (found in the house, as were the quaaludes)," Geimer says. "Toward the end it got a little scary, and I realized he had other intentions and I knew I was not where I should be. I just didn't quite know how to get myself out of there."


Samantha Geimer

Samantha Geimer recalled that she began to feel uncomfortable after he asked her to lie down on a bed, and described how she attempted to resist. "I said, 'No, no. I don't want to go in there. No, I don't want to do this. No!', and then I didn't know what else to do," she stated, adding: "We were alone and I didn’t know what else would happen if I made a scene. So I was just scared, and after giving some resistance, I figured well, I guess I’ll get to come home after this".

Geimer testified that Polanski gave her a combination of champagne and quaaludes (both of which were found in the house), a sedative drug, and "despite her protests, he performed oral sex, intercourse and sodomy on her", each time after being told 'no' and being asked to stop.

Although Geimer has insisted that the sex was non-consensual, Polanski has disputed this. Legally speaking, a minor (someone under the age of consent) cannot consent to sexual intercourse with an adult. Describing the event in his autobiography, Polanski stated that he did not drug Geimer, that she "wasn't unresponsive", and that she did not respond negatively when he inquired as to whether or not she was enjoying what he was doing.

Hoping to protect Geimer from a trial, her attorney arranged a plea bargain. Polanski accepted, and, under the terms of the agreement, five of the initial six charges were dismissed. Instead, Polanski pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of engaging in unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, a charge which is synonymous under California law with statutory rape.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, the court ordered Polanski to report to a state prison for a 90-day psychiatric evaluation, but granted a stay to allow him to complete his current project. Under the terms set by the court, he traveled to Europe to complete filming.

Polanski returned to California and reported to Chino State Prison for the evaluation period, and was released after 42 days. Polanski's lawyers had the expectation that Polanski would get only probation at the subsequent sentencing hearing, with the probation officer, examining psychiatrist, and the victim all recommending against jail time.

The documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' alleges that things changed, after a conversation with LA Deputy District Attorney David Wells and the judge. Polanski's attorneys assert that the judge suggested to them that he would send the director to prison and order him deported". In response to the threat of imprisonment, Polanski bought a one-way ticket to England and fled the United States.

So, like many typical criminals, Polanski was more than willing to commit his heinous and cowardly crime of drugging and raping a child, but was unwilling to face justice for his crimes when he was caught and convicted. He expected to get the easy way out (which fits the pattern - the first "easy way" was to drug and molest an unconscious victim) with only probation, unlike his victim, who gets to live with the crimes committed against her for the rest of her life.

Polanski fled initially to London on February 1, 1978, where he maintained a residence. A day later he traveled on to France, where he held citizenship, avoiding the risk of extradition to the United States by Britain.

Consistent with its extradition treaty with the United States, France can refuse to extradite its own citizens, and an extradition request later filed by U.S. officials was denied. The United States government could have requested that Polanski be prosecuted on the California charges by the French authorities.

Polanski has never returned to England, and later sold his home there. The United States could still request the arrest and extradition of Polanski from other countries should he visit them, and Polanski avoided visits to countries (such as the UK) that were likely to extradite him and mostly travelled and worked in France, Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland.

Roman Polanski was finally arrested in Switzerland on a decades-old arrest warrant stemming from a sex charge he had fled as a fugitive from justice in California, Swiss police said Sunday, Sept. 29, 2009.

Polanski, 76, was taken into custody trying to enter Switzerland, Zurich police said. A spokesman for the Swiss Justice Ministry said Polanski was arrested upon arrival at the airport. He has lived in France for decades to avoid being arrested if he enters the United States and declined to appear in person to collect his Academy Award for Best Director for 'The Pianist' in 2003.




Johnny and Whoopi Defend the Pedophile

Roman Polanski has gotten support from a broad range of Hollywood personalities, including Johnny Depp and Whoopi Goldberg.

On the show, The View, Whoopi Goldberg said:

"I know it wasn't 'rape-rape'. It was something else but I don't believe it was 'rape-rape'. He went to jail and and when they let him out he was like "You know what this guy's going to give me a hundred years in jail I'm not staying, so that's why he left."

If Whoopi Goldberg's moronic Hollywood liberal "logic" is trying to imply that this crime wasn't "rape-rape" because it did not involve a violent beating, it is important to remember that the victim was heavily drugged, and therefore unable to resist the forcible sexual assault by Polanski. There wouldn't really be much need for a violent beating when the victim is virtually comatose, Ms. Goldberg. It was rape. One word. Period.

What is most worrisome about Whoopi's argument is that she refuses to call a 43 year old man having sex with an unconscious 13 year old girl "rape". She may have personal, possibly guilty-parent reasons for not accepting this, but as tangled up as this case is, the fact that it was rape is one of the least controversial things about it. Roman Polanski admitted to drugging and having sex with a child, and in the country in which he did it, that is rape. (Though nice try Whoopi, with the "Europeans have sex with children all the time!" argument, or whatever that was.)

Regarding Polanski’s arrest, actor Johnny Depp said: “Why now? Obviously, there is something going on somewhere. Somebody has made a deal with someone. Maybe there was a little money involved, but why now?” Polanski, Depp said, “is not a predator. He’s 75 or 76 years old. He has got two beautiful kids, he has got a wife that he has been with for a long, long time. He is not out on the street.”

Well, the question, “Why now?”, can be answered quite simply. The director had already been lucky enough to be able to plead guilty to a lesser charge so the victim would be spared the secondary emotional trauma of a trial (a single count of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor), acknowledging he had sex with a 13-year-old girl, but this still wasn't getting off easy enough for Polanski, and so he then fled the United States before he could be sentenced, and U.S. authorities have had a warrant for his arrest since 1978.

Roman Polanski fled from justice in his admitted crime of child rape, and then hid behind French extradition laws for 30+ years - how is that not clear enough for you, Mr. Depp? Here is a good article about Johnny Depp’s ridiculous comments in defense of his pedophile pal, Polanski.

It is simply impossible for most decent, “regular people” to fully comprehend the degenerate, evil nature of the entertainment, media, political and corporate elite.



Sharon Tate

Roman Polanski's long-overdue arrest on his child rape conviction came two days after one of the murderers of his former wife, Sharon Tate, died. The director's pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate, and four others were butchered by members of the Charles Manson LSD cult "The Family" in August 1969, while Polanski was away filming in Europe.

By her own admission, Susan Atkins held the eight-months-pregnant Tate down as she pleaded for mercy, stabbing the 26-year-old actress 16 times.




Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. In a career spanning four decades, Spielberg's films have taken up many themes and genres.

Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism. He is considered to be one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

To date, the unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide. Forbes puts Spielberg's wealth at $3.0 billion.



Amy Irving

From 1985 to 1989 Spielberg was married to actress Amy Irving. In their 1989 divorce settlement, she received $100 million from Spielberg after a judge controversially vacated a prenuptial agreement written on a napkin. Their divorce was recorded as the third most costly celebrity divorce in history. Following the divorce, Spielberg and Irving shared custody of their son, Max Samuel.



Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw

Spielberg subsequently developed a relationship with actress Kate Capshaw, whom he met when he cast her in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. They married on October 12, 1991. Capshaw is a convert to Judaism.





James Cameron

James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, and inventor. His writing and directing work includes The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009).

In total, Cameron's directorial efforts have grossed approximately US $1.9 billion in North America and US $5.75 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing directors of all time. Cameron's Titanic and Avatar are the two highest-grossing films of all time.

James Cameron is an avowed atheist, and more specifically, an outspoken anti-Christian, who once as a child described 'The Lord's Prayer' as being a 'tribal chant'.

Cameron has been married five times; to Sharon Williams (1978–1984), Gale Anne Hurd (1985–1989), Kathryn Bigelow (1989–1991), Linda Hamilton (1997–1999, one daughter) and Suzy Amis (since 2000, one son, two daughters).

Hurd was the producer of Cameron's The Terminator, Aliens and The Abyss, and Executive Producer of Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Amis played the part of Lizzy Calvert, Rose's granddaughter, in Titanic. Hamilton played the role of Sarah Connor in both Terminator movies.

So, one might see a repetitive pattern here of Cameron abusing his power position as the director (boss) to lure in actresses and producers to be rewarded with jobs in big movies - if they "perform" up to his standards, that is.

In any other part of the business and/or govt world I am familiar with, this is know at best as a "conflict of interest", and worst-case, as blatant sexual harrassment in a workplace, which is duly protected under many federal and state laws. I wonder why it is that these important laws are not enforced when rich elite people are the ones breaking them? (wink)




Linda Hamilton

Hamilton was born in Salisbury, Maryland to a physician father who died in a car accident when she was five. Hamilton has an identical twin sister, one older sister and one younger brother. She has said that she was raised in a "very boring, white Anglo-Saxon" family, and "voraciously read books" during her spare time.

She studied for two years at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, before moving on to acting studies in New York City. While attending Washington College, her acting professor told her she had no hope of earning a living as an actress. In New York she attended acting workshops given by Lee Strasberg.

Hamilton has been married twice. Her first marriage was to actor Bruce Abbott, whom she wed on December 18, 1982. The couple had a son, Dalton, on 4 October 1989 but divorced shortly afterward. Her second marriage was to James Cameron, who directed her in the first two 'Terminator' films. They had a daughter, Josephine Archer, before marrying on July 26, 1997.

Hamilton appeared on the October 4, 2005 episode of Larry King Live to reveal that she suffers from bipolar disorder. She revealed that her condition destroyed her marriage to her first husband, Bruce Abbott, and she said that she abused him verbally and physically. Linda said that it was her love for her two children that finally forced her to seek treatment and she began taking medication in 1996.

Hamilton says that she will always be grateful she chose treatment and regrets the pain it caused her loved ones. She's also stated that, despite internet rumors to the contrary, she was never married to Peter Horton.

In an interview by Jonathan Thompson in The Independent, 21 October 2001, she denies being lesbian, however this is not the same as a denial of bisexuality. When asked what the biggest misconception about her was, she replied, "That I'm lesbian. I've met people who have actually said to me: You were married to Jim Cameron? I thought you were gay. Maybe it's just because I forge very strong female friendships and I'm not afraid to show affection or be with my pals. Somehow my alliances with women have worked out a lot better than my alliances with men. Actually, if I didn't know better I would think I was lesbian."






Chapter Eight: Modern Pop Stars

The Younger Christina Aguilera

Looking more than a little dissociative, and surrounded by butterflies, of course.

No longer the sweet, innocent Mouseketeer. She’s come a long way from the MMC.

Christina looking demure, and then, not quite so much.


Here are some shots from her latest video, ‘Not Myself Tonight’, which is a very sick and twisted display of discipline and bondage gear, sado-masochistic, graphic bi-sexuality and just generally anything goes sexuality of all kinds, culminating in the big orgy and climax scene, which takes place on a set designed to look just like a Christian church, complete with the beautiful stained-glass windows, depicting Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior, positioned perfectly to be made to watch the blatant degeneracy of Anti-Christ-ina's sex marathon in what represents a place of the sanctity of God and his worshippers.

The message here cannot be misunderstood, it is simply and forcefully insulting God and Christians to an extreme, brazenly and without any shame, with the catch line of the song being this lovely "in your face" declaration of her intentions: "And if you don't like it, f-ck you."

Just remember, little Ms. Aguilera, you need not create a high-dollar set and video portraying orgies defiling a Church of God for Him to see you. You can be certain that He, and He alone, sees and knows everything you are as a person, and what you are doing to yourself and others with your "music". The time will come when all of the rich elite handlers, Kabbalah bracelets and Illuminati cult powers in this world will not be able to help you anymore.

Some classic dehumanization…is that a dog or a sex kitten licking from its bowl?

Sadomasochistic sex kitty with more emphasis on the eyes, and mouth gag.

Discipline and Bondage with riding crop, and deliberately disturbing face and eyes.

Xtina going down on another female who is tied up in the animal print chair (dehumanization).

Enhancing and presenting her natural beauty was clearly not the goal here. What do you think the goal is, in presenting a beautiful woman in ways that are disturbing, at best, and disgustingly evil, at worst?

At this point, it’s probably fair to refer to her as “Anti-Christ-ina”.





Avril Lavigne

Starry-eyed and lots of pentas

This one from her ‘Alice Underground’ video, from the 'Alice in Wonderland' soundtrack

There’s nothing subtle about how these Masonic checkerboards, Skull and Bones and pentagrams are being sold to all the children who adore Avril Lavigne.

And, speaking of Masonic checkerboards…here’s Beyonce with her dissociative eyes.

A classic “deer in the headlights” shot

Here’s Bee hiding behind her sunglasses (at night) with her boo, Jay-Z, in his cultish hoodie

The happy couple

Brothers in the Cult? And what’s that interesting face on his shirt all about?

Jay-Z and his homie, Aleista-C – “Do What Thou Wilt”, Yo!

And who might this bee?

Well, of course, it’s our old friend, Borgie - sorry, I meant Fergie!




Stacy Ann Ferguson (born March 27, 1975), better known by her stage name Fergie, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, fashion designer and actress.

She was a member of the (Disney) children's television series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid. Ferguson was also a co-host of the television show Great Pretenders.

She is the female vocalist for the hip hop/pop group the Black Eyed Peas, as well as a solo artist, having released her debut album, 'The Dutchess', in September 2006. The album spawned five Billboard Hot 100 Top 5 singles (three of which went to number one) making The Dutchess the seventh album from a female artist to spawn five Top 5 hits.



Wild Orchid

Ferguson was a member of the female trio Wild Orchid, which she fronted with Stefanie Ridel and fellow Kids Incorporated star Renee Sandstrom. Wild Orchid released two albums, but after completing a third album, their record label declined to release it, and she left the group shortly thereafter.

While performing for Wild Orchid, Fergie developed an addiction to crystal methamphetamine which followed her after she left the group in 2001. In September 2006, Ferguson talked with Time magazine about quitting her crystal meth addiction. "It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with," she says. "It's the drug that's addicting. But it's why you start doing it in the first place that's interesting. A lot of it was being a child actor; I learned to suppress feelings."

Ferguson spent a short time as a meth addict, but that was enough for her to experience the delusions, mood swings and psychosis that come with it. When asked about her time spent as a meth user, Fergie recently told Marie Claire magazine:

"I had about 20 different conspiracy theories. I painted the windows in my apartment black so they couldn’t see in,” Fergie told Marie Claire, explaining that "she thought the FBI was after her" during her brief addiction to methamphetamines around 2001."

“One day, when I was about 90 pounds, a guy comes up to me. ...I’m searching in the bushes for clues about whatever they’re after me for. I’m in a cowboy hat and red lips. He hands me a muffin. I’m thinking, “he’s in on it.”

Fergie talks about how she began using and quickly was hooked. She tells People magazine:

“It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with, I dug deep as to why I got there. It’s the drug that’s addicting. But it’s why you start doing it in the first place that’s interesting. A lot of it was being a child actor; I learned to suppress feelings.”

Fergie opens up about her harrowing struggle with drug addiction in a new interview with the Times of London.

Various forms of Ecstasy

"It started with ecstasy. I loved ecstasy. Loved it, loved it. It was great at first, then it just went...." the Black Eyed Peas frontwoman, 34, says.

When high, she suffered from spells of paranoia and she blacked out the windows in her apartment, convinced she was under FBI surveillance. She also had delusions and once had an eight-hour conversation with a laundry hamper. Another time, a drug dealer held a gun up to her head as she tried to buy marijuana in a bad neighborhood in L.A.

Of crystal meth, which became her drug of choice, she says, "It ruins you."


Fergie, who will star alongside Penelope Cruz in musical Nine this fall, blames some of her past troubles on being a child star. "What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please," says Fergie, who appeared in Disney's Kids Incorporated from 1984 to 1990.

She admits, "That's part of how I got into [drugs] later."

Fergie says her "publicists get really mad with [her] for talking about" her struggles. "But I don't care," she adds. "For me, it's something I went through. It's an epidemic, and it's important to talk about it because it's a very, very hard thing to stop."

Fergie admits she's still judged for her past even though she hasn't used drugs in 10 years. "I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous," she says.

"There's no rule book on how to do this," she continues.

Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie claims she began taking Ecstasy in her 20s before her habit spun out of control and she started experimenting with harder drugs. She confessed: "I stopped meeting the girls, broke up with a boyfriend and started going out and taking Ecstasy I was hanging around in a different crowd From there, I got into harder drugs and a really bad place emotionally". "It was my way of getting away from everything I was totally wrapped up in it and I was going crazy.

The stunning star, who shot to fame aged just eight on children's TV show 'Kids Incorporated', claims her addictions left her an emotional and physical wreck and facing financial ruin."

She explained in an interview with Britain's Cosmopolitan magazine: "My life was falling apart I owed a lot of money and was going out of my mind imagining things I went into a downward spiral and hit rock bottom" Fergie finally contacted her parents who helped her kick her addiction for good.

She added: "If it wasn't for them I would be on the street or in a mental institution."

Come hither…

Some of the other faces of Fergie

And a flashback...looks like Prom Night

Awww...Dual Fergies - how cute is that?

Fergie eyes and the All-Seeing CBS Eye

Interesting outfit and fingers







Lady Gaga

Gaga looking rather lost and helpless, if not altogether nauseaous.

The Eyes of Gaga

Gaga is rarely seen offstage without one, or both, of these guys. They have the look of retired cops (a look I know well btw), so obviously that suggests security, but some might also be thinking “handlers”.

The bald gentleman certainly has some dissociative looking eyes, himself.

These guys definitely seem like they can kick some ass when they need to - so don't mess with lobsterhead!!




Jessica Simpson

And here’s her lil sis, Ashlee Simpson

Who???

Ohh….it's that guy!

What can one really say about this?

Blasphemy against God is his artform

No further comments necessary





Rihanna - Before and After

She sure was a cutie before...

After joining the dark side...not so much.





Take a guess who this is, and I'm not giving you the answer until Part Three comes out...

Just kidding...

She is the lovely and talented Shakira...looking pretty lost here.

Nice shirt, eh?

Very dissociative eyes and the highly symbolic lock and chains around her neck

Hello Butterfly

The Iron Cross / Nazi Cross

Bill Clinton and Shakira, wearing the Skull and Bones “Love” version. Nice cognitive dissonance play there.

Shakira with another powerful, elitist friend - I'd recognize those royal ears anywhere!





Final Thoughts

So, here we are at the end of Part Two already. I hope you've had fun and maybe learned a few things along the way. Part Three will be along shortly, I'll try not to keep you waiting too long. Until then, happy hunting and reading, and remember to continue your efforts in recognizing various patterns among so many of these people, entertainment and otherwise. And, be sure to keep your eyes on the eyes.









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