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August 05, 2008

Economy Balances on Edge of Recession; Celebrities, Millionaires Hardest Hit
— Ace

TV's biggest names are doing what they can to combat the worst economic slump in 80 years.
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"We're not using water bottles at home any more," says Kate Walsh of ABC's "Private Practice." "We're drinking out of the tap."
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"We are not taking a vacation this year," says Valerie Bertinelli, star of the upcoming Lifetime original movie "True Confessions of A Hollywood Starlet."
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Actors have taken it especially hard in the wallet this year. The recent four-month Hollywood writers' strike cost the entertainment industry more than $500 million, according to a recent report.
"I think we really need to rethink how we spend our money," says Carnie Wilson, who appears in the upcoming reality series "Outsiders Inn."
"I don't know how to make gas prices drop," she says. "But I can try to control how many things I buy at Target for f-k sake! I go crazy there."

As Hard News Man Dan Rather suggested: Courage.

In related news, John Edwards and Reille Hunter are being forced to economize on hotel amenities used during late-night trysts. "Just bring your own pornography and bi-curious erotica to the room," the former presidential contender suggests. "It's not like that $20.00 'Adult Movie Package' is so great or anything. Frankly, in a lot of hotels, they cut out the good parts, and by 'the good parts,' I mean busty she-males with rock-hard pneumatic he-throbbers."

Even Al Gore is Economizing: Note his James Bond Archvillain Level houseboat does not have the standard-issue James Bond Archvillain helipad.

Thanks to DrewM for that.

Even More Economizing! George Clooney's fundraiser for fellow Hollywood celebrity Barack Obama will be held in downscale Geneva, Switzerland, rather than in ritzy Cleveland, where the event was originally booked.

Oh, I can't wait to hear Hollywood's elites whining about global warming from Geneva in an event that could easily have taken place in Burbank.

Via Hot Air.

And Yet Some Persevere: Marget Cho to star in series about supermodel who dies and is reincarnated in body of frumpy lawyer.

Here's the sad news: Although Cho would have been just plum terrific at playing frumpy, she actually gets to play the lawyer's... assistant.

Perhaps we should stop talking so much about Hollywood's Blacklist and instead talk about its Whitelist -- archliberal/leftist industry favorites, such as Cho and George Clooney, who just keep getting work no matter how many times they fail to draw an audience.

Thanks to DPUD.

Posted by: Ace at 01:43 PM | Comments (79)
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1 Are you kidding me?

Someone named their kid "Carnie"???!?!?!??

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: ghy at August 05, 2008 01:45 PM (8jYMc)

2 How does being frugal, if not cheap, stimulate the economy? Typical democrat moonbat bimbos.

Posted by: grc at August 05, 2008 01:46 PM (V4gbT)

3 Moon-Unit Zappa was unreachable for comment.

Posted by: Techie at August 05, 2008 01:46 PM (mhEbi)

"I'm shopping at Target, for God's sake, just like the little people"

Bwa-ha-ha-ha

Posted by: Son of a Pig and a Monkey at August 05, 2008 01:57 PM (KwoXV)

5 These people are what I like to call pretentious assholes.

Posted by: mare at August 05, 2008 02:03 PM (xMkst)

6 Valarie Bertinelli is one of the spokesman for Jenny Craig and she can't afford a vacation? What a dumbass. Kate Walsh is forced to drink tap water? Hey Kate, drink this. If that fat ass Carnie Wilson would cut back on the KFC she could run her f'ing prius all night and all day and never feel the gas pinch. All dumb assholes.

Posted by: mare at August 05, 2008 02:08 PM (xMkst)

OMG, you didn't make up the last paragraph of the quote.

I mean, you do that sometimes and it's funny. But...she really said that.

Posted by: MamaAJ at August 05, 2008 02:09 PM (X6Zdh)

8 Note his James Bond Archvillain Level houseboat does not have the standard-issue James Bond Archvillain helipad.

I bet it can't detach a cocoon and turn into a hydrofoil either.

Probably.

In any case this article reads like horsecrap. It's pretentious people acting like they understand other people's lives and making noises like they are feeling a pinch somehow.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 05, 2008 02:10 PM (0+Ggj)

9 The "I can't afford to drive" whine gets to me, whether the speaker is rich or middle class. Yes, gas is more expensive, but it wasn't free a year ago.

Posted by: MamaAJ at August 05, 2008 02:14 PM (X6Zdh)

10 I bet it can't detach a cocoon and turn into a hydrofoil either.

right, like ANY boat carrying big ol dumb Al could get the bow up....ok, maybe if he was at the stern, but, that's it

Posted by: Frank G at August 05, 2008 02:15 PM (P0rQD)

11 worst economic slump in 80 years.

WTF? There was double digit inflation and unemployment during the Carter years.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at August 05, 2008 02:29 PM (SLqkZ)

TV's biggest names are doing what they can to combat the worst economic slump in 80 years.

Wait, how can we be having the worst economic slump since the Depression when the GDP has been growing the last two quarters? Did the word recession get re-defined when I wasn't looking?

Posted by: Maetenloch at August 05, 2008 02:33 PM (mwqyp)

13 As for a $10K/plate dinner date with old Georgie, (his proclivities not withstanding), I certainly hope that dipping one's balls in a fountain of fondue is at least encouraged. iykwim

Posted by: Fritz at August 05, 2008 02:34 PM (zAvxs)

14 This is a manufactured publicity puff piece written by publicist(s). It's no more reality based than the rest of Hollywood.

That said, I'd be thrilled to hear Hollywood was on the skids-- it's another dinosaur, just like the news media.

Posted by: Stinky Esposito at August 05, 2008 02:37 PM (MMC8r)

15 I'd be thrilled to hear Hollywood was on the skids

I'll throw a block party if those bastards go under.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at August 05, 2008 02:53 PM (SLqkZ)

16 They are not in it for the money nor the fame; they are artists.

They feel life's ups and downs more strongly than we do.

Why do you mock their pain?

Posted by: eman at August 05, 2008 02:57 PM (bXWSG)

17 Agree on the Carter years. Tough on money then. It's getting expensive now, though. However, interest rates were near 20% with Carter in office and unemployment was near 8%.

What's different now (200

is that a) the gas prices have responded quickley to market forces (less people driving) and b) regarding food prices, people will change their spending habits. Also, the auto companies are being hit damned hard, and rightly so, for making them damned SUVs.

Posted by: Dave_meister at August 05, 2008 03:03 PM (IYePq)

18 no helipad. what a loser.

Posted by: don trump at August 05, 2008 03:03 PM (EzxwY)

>Wait, how can we be having the worst economic slump since the Depression when the GDP has been growing the last two quarters? Did the word recession get re-defined when I wasn't looking?

It's the media, campaigning for Obama, disguised as news.

I despise most Hollywood people. Except Jennifer Garner.

Posted by: Jones at August 05, 2008 03:05 PM (kKjaJ)

20 And the Margaret Cho pic is absolutely repellant. An emetic in pixels.

Posted by: Jones at August 05, 2008 03:07 PM (kKjaJ)

21 Slightly off-topic but...

How come in reincarnation-themed movies/shows/Hallmark Channel specials, do people always get reincarnated into middle age? I mean, isn't the whole idea of reincarnation that you're supposed to actually go through your WHOLE LIFE again?

And what happened to the original inhabitant of the frumpy old lady body? I mean, what'd that soul do to get evicted in favor of a SUPERMODEL?

Posted by: Revvy at August 05, 2008 03:27 PM (YL+I3)

Actors have taken it especially hard in the...

Heh.

Posted by: TallDave at August 05, 2008 03:31 PM (cCrGl)

23 In the real Depression, prisons will be so overcrowded that they'll have to run cross country races, whether they kill of the competition; Haven't you seen the previews for Death Race with Jason Statham.

Posted by: narciso at August 05, 2008 03:40 PM (8nB5X)

24 Hussein is an actual celebrity...goes to Europe and knocks America.....the same America that gave he and his family a stellar life...He cries and whines if he is not always given praise...there are many comparisons...maybe McJuan is on to something.

Posted by: free at August 05, 2008 03:53 PM (cFwGO)

25 Wait, how can we be having the worst economic slump since the Depression

Well not a Depression per say; that much is obvious hyperbole, but to answer the second part of your question - revisions.

The Fed revises the numbers often. The bet is that the past few quarters' numbers will be revised downward in the next report. Additionally the whole 'two quarters of negative growth' is not an entirely accurate definition. It's just used because MSM journalists don't understand economics and they sure as hell couldn't explain to anyone else.

NBER is one of the groups that track and advise on the US' economic status. Here's the their caveat: " The NBER does not define a recession in terms of two consecutive quarters of decline in real GDP. Rather, a recession is a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales. For more information, see the latest announcement on how the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee chooses turning points in the Economy and its latest memo, dated 07/17/03."

Here's a pretty good explanation of why we could be in a recession: Recessions often begin with positive GDP Data.

Posted by: adamthemad at August 05, 2008 03:55 PM (kIjlp)

26 Worst economic slump in 80 years? lol, try 20-25. It's been good for so long there's a whole generation of young people who think a booming economy is the default.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 05, 2008 03:58 PM (XIXhw)

27 Hollywood's biggest names? I know who Valerie Bertinelli is but the rest of them? Who cares? Boo fuckin' hoo. I guess they will only be able to lunch at the Ivy four times a week instead of five.
The horror! They will have to use COUPONS at Gelsons.

Posted by: MrsPaulsFishSticks at August 05, 2008 04:04 PM (PBGAP)

28 Anyone seen Paris Hilton's ad? I think I'm gonna vote for her. It makes as much sense as anything these days. Plus, she's hot.

Posted by: oops at August 05, 2008 04:35 PM (R5Y+/)

29 Hmmm.

"And Yet Some Persevere: Marget Cho to star in series about supermodel who dies and is reincarnated in body of frumpy lawyer."

When Cho is involved "frumpy" is rather implied.

Posted by: memomachine at August 05, 2008 04:44 PM (3PLow)

30 Burn, baby burn.

Posted by: Ostral-B Heretic at August 05, 2008 05:05 PM (9u8Jf)

31 Carnie "Gastric Bypass Surgery because I can't be bothered to eat intelligently and exercise" Wilson is supposed to be telling us about impulse control at Target?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 05, 2008 05:56 PM (Ds4I5)

32 Uh oh. We're not going to start the fat flames again, are we?

Posted by: someone at August 05, 2008 06:47 PM (2z2WN)

33 Uh oh. We're not going to start the fat flames again, are we?

I missed out on that thread. Better late than never.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 05, 2008 07:06 PM (Ds4I5)

34 Worst economic slump in 80 years? lol, try 20-25.

Not even that long. We're better off now than it was at the end of the first Bush administration.

And Paris Hilton isn't hot even when she's wearing seven fur coats in the middle of Death Valley in a lit barbecue pit during noon in August.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 05, 2008 07:20 PM (0+Ggj)

35 "interest rates were near 20% with Carter in office"

I wish. I had my own business during that period, included a lot of buying and selling. My short-term money was at 22%. I also had a 15-year mortgage at 14%.

Maybe all these whiners should re-run Jimmy Carter's "misery index" and check out the current situation versus the late 70s.

Just goes to show that the celebrities are no more stupid than the people who write about them.

Posted by: JorgXMcKie at August 05, 2008 07:27 PM (1Sf5X)

36 Frumpy lawyers don't shit in their pants.

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"And Yet Some Persevere: Marget Cho to star in series about supermodel who dies and is reincarnated in body of frumpy lawyer."

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38 I'll pass. This is too easy to mock.

Posted by: Francase at August 05, 2008 07:58 PM (Giazw)

39 frito weeps.

Posted by: nikkolai at August 05, 2008 07:59 PM (CZD0L)

40 COME ON, FOLKS-- Every name mentioned in this story is immediately followed by their upcoming project-- it's a planted piece invented by a publicity department. It's as stupid as it is because it will get noticed, cross-posted, and READ and the publicity department will have done their job.

Posted by: Stinky Esposito at August 05, 2008 08:32 PM (MMC8r)

41 Is there a link , or address , where we can all send funds ?

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at August 05, 2008 08:33 PM (Z+f6r)

The poor bastards can't afford to go on vacation and have to shop at Target. What if the economy really goes south? Will they have to shop at WalMart? Or maybe Goodwill? Boo fricking Hoo.

I don't believe a word of their crying crap.

Posted by: Ronster at August 05, 2008 08:37 PM (lFiDW)

My cousin was engaged to Carnie Wilson for a few years. Glad that didn't work out. I suspect her family growing up was so bizarre that she latches on to semi-normal people and lives vicariously through them. I was really amazed when she spoke at greater length than anyone at my grandmother's funeral.

Now, this woman who has never known anything remotely like poverty, is called upon to comment on her need to cut back on her spending. Please, do the world a favor and resist the urge to deliver a soundbite in order to remind people you have another attempt at a TV show coming.

OTOH, whatever became of Carnie's sister, Wendy? She was incredibly hot. I was always hoping she'd turn up at some family event.

Posted by: epobirs at August 05, 2008 09:57 PM (cOEAu)

44 Oh, the shame, the ignominy!

BACK, you filthy peasants! Back, I say!

Posted by: mojo at August 06, 2008 01:14 AM (BlJGu)

45 30 Anyone seen Paris Hilton's ad? I think I'm gonna vote for her. It makes as much sense as anything these days. Plus, she's hot. Posted by: oops

I question your call of "hot". On the other hand, she hasn't deliberately and continuously insulted me, and my intelligence; so she's definitely in the running.

I swore after McCain-Feingold that I wouldn't support him for dog-catcher. Has he backed off that piece of sh*t yet? Ok, well then I'm not voting for him.

Has Obama's continuously changing stances gotten around to something rational, sane, or plausible? Ok, not him.

Bob Barr and the Libertarians still stupid on foreign policy and border control? Damn, well that sucks.

So, Paris Hilton, or a nearly unknown third party. I was going to vote for zombie Reagan, but Paris seems to have some halfway decent recommendations.

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46 LOL at Kate Walsh. What a sacrifice. She can't afford bottled water, but she has no problem with getting private jet to travel from LA to San Diego for one day. I wonder what she was wearing when she said this dumb thing. Probably a designer shoes for a few thousand $. What a loser.

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