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Thursday 4 August 2011

GEORGE


Apparently George Clooney has a new girlfriend. Now while this is not breaking news in any shape or form, it did make me stop and laugh at how fast this man goes through women. Funny enough, it’s hard not to admire the guy – there is a bit of lust thrown in for good measure of course, I am female after all – for his utter dedication to his bachelor lifestyle. In the case of George, he makes being an unmarried, wealthy, free-living bachelor look incredibly desirable. [I'm thinking the lakefront house in Como doesn't hurt]. And what’s more, he refuses to apologize for it; you simply have to love that. But the funniest part from an outsider’s perspective is to watch the women that come in and out of his life try to change the unchangeable. I suppose it’s in our genes to want to take on the impossible.

Here is the thing; fundamentally women like to change things. Call it our love of a good project, a fixer upper, a quest to find and tackle the ultimate before and after, but when a women enters a relationship, there is a certain amount of stuff she is eyeballing about her partner, and thinking to herself, now that’s got to go! And I'm just the woman to clear that sh*t out. I’m not saying it’s always healthy, but most of us know we do this and we do at least attempt to curtail it. Well, after a few minor changes take place to his wardrobe, finances, and overall etiquette. :-) Take my partner for instance, when we met, he used to wear this jacket. Ooooh this jacket and I were not friends, in fact, it was my sartorial enemy as soon as I saw it. And of course as soon as we were a month in to the dating arena, I had decided that I was up for the battle of "operation jacket disappearance." There would only be one of us standing by the end of the year, and no leather jacket was going to get one up on me. [The jacket is gone by the way].

So back to George of course, here is a man that from the start tells women, I never want to marry. Hell, he says it in interviews like it’s a mantra. “No, I will never marry again; and no I do not want children. I’ll leave that to the other people.” And when you hear him say it, you believe it. [There are those that say things and it’s simply lacking conviction]. Needless to say, each woman that George ensnares enters the union with the best intentions. They tell themselves they are simply going to date him, they are okay with this, they accept that he is what he is and figure, heck, he's hot, rich and can pay for dinner. Why be picky? 

Then you literally see it happening after about a year in. They start getting that look in their eye – that look that says, I made it a year, I can do this; I can be the one to change this man’s mind. "Look at me, he loves me, I have incredibly long legs, long marrying legs. Damn it, George Clooney is going to put a ring on it!" And then about eight months later, the woman is on the Lake Como express going straight out of town and George is setting his sights on someone newer, younger, and less desiring of settling down and wanting Clooney spawn.

You see, some men are simply unchangeable (barring a jacket here or there) when it comes to their stance in life. And for that, you simply have to take a step back and respect it. If a woman is told from the outset there will never be a ring in no uncertain terms, then you’re looking at one long one-sided conversation.  You're better off going to find a nice messy closet to clean out and reorganize. I'm telling you, the rewards will be much more fulfilling....Ahhh, before. After.

Wednesday 3 August 2011

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?


So let me get this straight, the man that through a foam pie in Rupert Murdoch’s face while he testified over the British phone hacking scandal has received six weeks in jail; meanwhile, Rupert himself has received nothing in the way of punishment for being at the helm of News Corp - the company that governs News International, who is responsible for the phone hacking in the first place. Sorry, I realize how confusing this is, so let’s back up a bit.

The UK newspaper, News of the World has recently been under the microscope for a phone hacking scandal that has rocked the country. Basically, this tabloid newspaper hacked the phones of various celebrities, the Prime Minister of England (yes, the head of the sodding country!) a young murder victim, and the Royals…to name a few, I figure if there is smoke, there is definitely fire and many more fell victim to this operation.

As if the media isn’t insidious enough, in this case a large batch of journalistic vipers thought that they would simply move the line of investigative reporting and violate one of the most sacred privacy laws, not to mention commit a variety of other criminal offenses in order to obtain leads on investigations, salacious celeb scandals, and [I’m assuming] matters of a sensitive political nature by listening in to the leader of the UK. I’m thinking these reporters, editors and executives in question missed the memo that said, thou shall not act like fascists and invade the public’s privacy like a group of KGB operatives. Sorry, no offense KGB. I mean, seriously, couldn’t the News of the World leave the phone tapping to the government?

So back to Murdoch; under intensive questioning in front of Parliament he claimed that he had no knowledge of the phone hacking of various individual’s voice mails whatsoever. Of course he didn’t. Cause being involved in what goes on in one’s own company would mean he was far too aware and on top of things. And clearly, being the Chairmain and CEO means you reap all of the rewards, but do not have to do much work or know what is going on within your own company. I suppose the mystery is, how is it that when a large corporation does well and brings in enormous profits, the head of the company takes all the credit for being a ingenious media tycoon, but when sh*t hits the fan inside this very company suddenly, said baron has no knowledge of such events or culpability? 


I'm sure foam pie man is sitting in his cell wondering the very same thing. 

Of course Rupert Murdoch and News Corp’s answer to the inquiry was to close down the entire paper in a blink of an eye and all the evidence that went along with it. Rupert Murdoch may be a criminal neo-con, but he’s far from dumb. Then again, his company did get caught in one of the biggest scandals of the day, so perhaps - and thankfully - he’s losing his edge. 




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