Re: Late night interview with Amber Tamblyn -- disappointing?

In article <aQa7e.1962$bc2.1495@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "John Richards" <jr70@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "Michael Alden" <drbencasey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:1113379075.718736.153200@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Yeah really. They are just paid to look good and read other people's
> > words. Who cares what they think anyway when 90% of them are airheads.
> 
> Indeed. Which is why it's surprising that so many people pay attention
> to the stars' views on world politics, as if they had some special
insights.
> I loved Jane Fonda in Barbarella, but I hated her political views.

Their views are as valid as anyone else's.  The difference is that they 
have the op****tunity to express them to mass audiences.  So we don't 
really have much choice -- it's either them or no one, since ordinary 
folk don't have much op****tunity to make speeches on TV.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 MA