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Hollywood values

2008-02-21T17:57:52Z

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The phrase '''Hollywood values''' refers to the lack of [[morals]] and [[values]] in [[Hollywood]] culture, which are characterized by rampant [[drug|drug use]], extramarital sex, [[disease]], lawlessness and death. A poll by MSNBC said that 60% of [[Americans]] agree that "Hollywood's values are not in line with the rest of America and that the quality of movies has dimished in recent years."<ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11714540/</ref>

Hollywood values can include a flagrant disrespect and disregard for:

* [[marriage]] and [[abstinence]]
* [[patriotism]]
* [[religion]]
* [[accountability]]
* family responsibilities, like childrearing<ref>[[Britney Spears]] "doesn't want [her] kids back." [http://www.nypost.com/seven/02132008/news/nationalnews/brit_doesnt_want_her_kids__1st_ex_97425.htm]</ref>
* laws that apply to everyone else

==Deaths ==
Hollywood values are deadly. Some examples include:<ref>http://www.abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=4174733&page=1</ref><ref>http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_18845.aspx</ref>
*[[John Barrymore]], 60, cirrhosis of the liver from heavy drinking
*[[Bix Beiderbecke]], 28, [[alcoholism]]
*[[John Belushi]], 33, was a repeated drug abuser who ultimately died of a lethal injection of cocaine and heroin
*[[Clara Blandick]], 81, suicide
*[[John Bonham]], 32, after too much drinking, asphyxiated on vomit
*[[Lenny Bruce]], 40, heroin overdose
*[[Kurt Cobain]], 27, "turned to drugs and alcohol to help him cope," then committed suicide
*[[Karl Dane]], 47, suicide by gunshot
*[[Brian Epstein]], 32, overdosed on sleeping pills and alcohol
*[[Chris Farley]], 33, overdose of morphine and cocaine
*[[Judy Garland]], 47, overdosed on sleeping pills
*[[Margaux Hemingway]], 42, suicide
*[[Janis Joplin]], 27, heroin overdose
*[[Heath Ledger]], 28, found dead in his [[Manhattan]] apartment. "Prescription sleeping pills and anti-anxiety pills were found in bottles in Ledger's bedroom and bathroom, and police have speculated the death was caused by an accidental drug overdose."<ref>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080123/ap_en_ce/obit_ledger</ref> "Ledger died of an accidental overdose of painkillers, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medication and other prescription drugs, the New York City medical examiner said Wednesday." <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,328828,00.html</ref>
*[[Stuart Lubbock]], 31, found dead in the swimming pool of popular TV entertainer [[Michael Barrymore]], having suffered severe anal trauma, after a drug-fuelled party at the star's home
*[[Phil Lynott]], 36, kidney and liver infection
*[[Marilyn Monroe]], 36, overdosed on sleeping pills
*[[Jim Morrison]], 27, died of an apparent heroin overdose
*[[River Phoenix]], 23, a huge star until he died from an overdose cocaine and heroin
* [[Elvis Presley]], 42, large drug intake causes a cardiac arrhythmia
*[[Virginia Rappe]], 30, died of a ruptured bladder incurred at a party hosted by [[Roscoe Arbuckle]]
*[[Brad Renfro]], 25, became addicted to heroin and was found dead after a night of drinking
*[[Anna Nicole Smith]], 39, accidental overdose on prescription drugs
*[[Sharon Tate]], 26, murdered by members of the [[Manson Family]]
*[[Lou Tellegen]], 52, suicide
*[[Sid Vicious]], 21, overdosed on heroin obtained from his mother
*[[Kenneth Williams]], 62, overdose.

== Crime ==
Hollywood values often include stealing and committing other crimes. Here are some examples:

* [[Winona Ryder]] was convicted of convicted of vandalism and grand theft for stealing designer merchandise worth $5,560.40.<ref>http://www.courttv.com/trials/ryder/</ref>
* [[O.J. Simpson]] is widely believed to have murdered his wife and her friend, and was found liable in a civil (but not criminal) trial. He has since been arrested again on an unrelated charge.
* [[Paris Hilton]] was convicted of driving while intoxicated, and then violated the terms of her probation, leading to a 45-day prison sentence.<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18472845/ Paris Hilton sentenced to 45 days in jail], msnbc, May 4, 2007</ref>
*[[Hugh Grant]] was arrested in 1995 when found in a car with a prostitute.<ref>[http://www.mugshots.org/hollywood/hugh-grant.html]</ref>
*[[Kiefer Sutherland]] was given a 48-day sentence for DUI in 2007, an offence committed while still on probation following a 2004 conviction for DUI.<ref>Sutherland is released from jail [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7200633.stm BBC]</ref>
*[[George Michael]] was convicted of "Committing a lewd act in public", having been arrested in a public restroom by a plain clothes police officer.<ref>Police confirm George Michael arrest [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/75904.stmBBC]</ref>

== Offensive Behavior ==

*[[Mel Gibson]], a [[Christian]] actor and director, was arrested after being stopped for driving at 84 mph in a 45 mph zone on a notoriously dangerous road in Malibu, California.<ref>''Mel Gibson apologizes after DUI arrest'' [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14080210/ Associated Press]</ref> A breathalyzer test confirmed he was drunk and next to him was an open bottle of Tequila; after being arrested he hurled Anti-Semitic abuse at a Jewish police officer.<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2292336,00.html Mel Gibson rants against Jews in drink-drive arrest], Times Online, July 30, 2006</ref>

== Rehab ==
Hollywood values often result in [[Celebrity|celebrities]] going into rehab. Here are some examples:

*[[Kirsten Dunst]] checked into the [[Cirque Lodge]] treatment facility in [[Utah]] after a week of hard partying at the [[Sundance Film Festival]], according to a source at the lodge, although the lodge's director of operations denies this. <ref name = "foxkirsten">
[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,329545,00.html Reports Say Kirsten Dunst in Rehab; Rep for Facility Denies It], ''[[Fox News]]'', February 08, 2008</ref>

The following all checked into the above facility seeking treatment for various psychological problems:

*[[Lindsay Lohan]] <ref name = "foxkirsten"/>
*[[Eva Mendes]] <ref name = "foxkirsten"/>
*[[Mary-Kate Olsen]] <ref name = "foxkirsten"/>

==Books==
* ''Hollywood Against America''
* ''Hollywood Babylon'' (1965) by Kenneth Anger (US edition)
* ''Hollywood Babylon II'' (1984) by Kenneth Anger

== References ==

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Talk:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2008-02-18T14:51:15Z

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Does it have any academic specialities, beyond than the all-important playing games and insulting people with Downs Syndrome? [[User:Durcfall|Durcfall]] 09:51, 18 February 2008 (EST)

Ebenezer Howard

2008-02-18T14:46:32Z

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'''Ebenezer Howard''' (1850-1928) was a [[British]] [[writer]] who developed and popularised the idea of the [[Garden City]], and was a huge influence on town planners in the western world for most of the twentieth century.

Howard emigrated to the [[United States]] in 1871, living in [[Nebraska]] and [[Chicago]], but returned to London in 1876, working as a clerk and sometime Parliamentary reporter. He became a supporter of [[Henry George]], whose single tax proposals were to influence Howard's work. In 1898 Howard published ''To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform'', republished under its more familiar title ''Garden Cities of To-Morrow'' in 1902. In it, he argued that the problems of ever-expanding cities, and the poor social conditions within them, could be solved by instead building self-contained networks of 'Garden Cities' which would be restricted in size, would be designed to maximise the social, intellectual and economic potential of a community, and would offer the advantages of living in town and in the country in terms of cultural, educational, recreational and environmental amenities.

Howard's model saw urban refugees building up a city until it reached a population of 32,000, whereupon a new city would be started nearby. Ultimately, Howard saw the creation of a network of such cities: six such surrounding a slightly larger city of 58,000, the settlements divided by green belt land and linked by high speed urban railways. Such a grouping of cities, he believed, would provide all the advantages of a single large city, and few, if any, of the drawbacks. His economic system drew on George: land would be municipally-owned, and revenue derived from the increasing value of this land as the cities developed would be used to provide public services, even old age pensions; the need for individuals to pay municipal rates would dwindle and disappear.

In 1899 Howard founded the Garden Cities Association which survives as the Town & Country Planning Association (TCPA). With supporters, he managed to gather sufficient finance to start work on the first Garden City at [[Letchworth]], [[Hertfordshire]], in 1903. The town was designed by the architects [[Raymond Unwin]] and [[Barry Parker]], broadly along the lines suggested in Howard's book. Most of the housing was provided by [[co-partnership]] housing associations; employment was provided by radically-minded businessmen who had been persuaded to support the project, like the publisher Dent, but the largest single employer was Spirola, a corset manufacturer, very much at odds with the sandal-wearing, rational dress, Esperantist and folk-dancing ethos of the new town.

Howard was unable to gain support for further new town foundations after 1903 until 1920, when he acquired an estate near Welwyn in Hertfordshire and commenced construction of [[Welwyn Garden City]].

Both Letchworth and Welwyn G.C. are thriving communities, but not in the way that Howard had intended. It could be argued that his theories were not properly trialled, since a grouping of six or seven new towns never emerged to test their sustainability as a self-supporting network.

Nevertheless, his theories were very influential in the [[United Kingdom]] and elsewhere, on urban form if not economic and social function. The low density housing adopted as Letchworth became the ideal for housing reformers; 'garden suburbs' (in one sense a complete negation of Howard's true intentions) became a vogue, and low density housing (not more than twelve dwellings per acre) was the norm for both privately-owned and municipal housing in the interwar years. Only after the [[Second World War]] did the discrete Garden City again take its place in planning orthodoxy, this time in the form of the New Towns designed to reduce the population of [[London]] and to regenerate depressed areas in northern [[England]], south [[Wales]] and [[Scotland]].

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[[Category:Urban Planning]]

Letchworth

2008-02-18T14:43:03Z

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'''Letchworth''', in [[Hertfordshire]], south-east [[England]], was the first [[garden city]] to be founded by the planner and urbanist [[Ebenezer Howard]], in 1903. Its layout was designed by [[Raymond Unwin]] and [[Barry Parker]], following Hoeward's ideas of the separation of industry and housing, and communal ownership of civic resources, and Unwin and Parker's views on low density housing grouped in tree-lined streets and ''culs-de-sac''. The town attracted some sympathetic employers to set up works there - notably the publishers Dent and the corset manufacturers Spirella (the latter something of an irony, as the popular stereotype of Letchworth woman was of a 'rational dress' enthusiast, who would have scorned stays). Although something of a showpiece, visited and admired by urban reformers fromacross the globe, Letchworth grew slowly and it was not until 1920 that Howard risked a second city-building venture, at [[Welwyn Garden City]]. Whether Letchworth was a success by Howards standards can never really be ascertained. He believed that 'clusters' of six or seven new garden cities, with a total population of 200-250,000, linked by rapid rail connections, could replicate the cultural, social and commercial facilities of a big city without the negative aspects of overcrowding, dirt and pollution; but this was never put to the test. Letchworth was also too close to [[London]] to develop an independent cultural life; and has since become a dormitory town for the capital.

[[Category:UK Towns and Cities]]

Ann Widdecombe

2008-02-18T14:23:49Z

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'''Ann Widdecombe''' (b 1947) is a [[Conservative Party|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament]] in the [[United Kingdom]]. First elected to Parliament in [[Margaret Thatcher|Margaret Thatcher's]] 1987 victory, she has made public her intention to stand down at the next election. Between 1990 and 1997 she served in the [[government]] of [[Prime Minister]] [[John Major]]. After the election loss of 1997, she served as shadow [[Health Minister]] and shadow [[Home Secretary]]. She moved to the [[backbench|backbenches]] in 2001.

Remarkable for a British politician, Widdecombe is a vocal [[Christian]] whose faith has often being a feature of her political life. She insisted that should the Conservative Party be elected to government again she would be unable to serve as Health Secretary since the [[NHS|National Health Service]] performs [[abortion|abortions]]. She has been a strong campaigner for [[family values]] and is a publically-acknowledged practitioner of [[abstinence]]. When the [[Church of England]], of which she was a member, decided to allow women to become priests, she left and joined the [[Catholic Church]]. She once boycotted [[British Airways]] in protest at the airline refusing to allow a member of staff to display a [[crucifix]], and only returned to using the carrier when the decision was reversed.
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=== The Widdy Web ===
http://www.annwiddecombemp.com/

Grimsby

2008-02-18T14:22:01Z

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'''Grimsby''' is a port town of [[North East Lincolnshire]], on the east coast of [[England]]; it is known as a major fishing port but also handles general cargoes and is a major centre of prepared, refrigerated and frozen food production. It forms a single urban area with the resort town of [[Cleethorpes]].

[[Category:United Kingdom Towns and Cities]]

Ann Widdecombe

2008-02-18T14:18:08Z

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