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by Brent Kellogg
July 14, 2008
And then there are the radio ads wherein the little
children talk about becoming alcoholics before
they're ten along with the Ad Council plea for
someone, anyone, to do something to prevent the
scourge of young boozers surpassing the baby
boomers.
And then there's Neil Winters, proud owner of a jazz
club/breakfast nook, former alcoholic, exposing his
adopted son's young cousin to night club life and
the boozing public without one person asking if
there isn't something inherently wrong with Tyra
Hamilton being allowed into the club. Next thing you
know Brad Carlton will be inviting the little tyke
over to his home to play poker with the "dangerous"
David Chow.
You might think with the many times I've written on
this topic I'm obsessed with the exploitation of
kids. I'm just saying it's not right. This is not a
Two and a Half Men sitcom where the young,
fat boy is exposed to his uncle's parade of sexual
conquests.
Or is it?
Is there not something juvenile about Victoria
Hellstrom saying today that if anyone had told her
six months ago she would hate her BFF she wouldn't
have believed it? Why wouldn't she? Hate is what she
does best. If it's not her mother, Victoria is
hating her father. A few months ago she couldn't
stand Victor Newman. He pulled her off a major
business project, she threw a fit, quit, spewed hate
about Victor, refused to attend his wedding, then,
in the blink of an eye, she was enjoying the 4th of
July at Victor's pool. Last week she was crying on
daddy's shoulder about his evil wife, Sabrina, and
for a moment Victor nearly bought her bullshit
implication that Sabrina Casterfate married him
under "false pretences".
Also today, the brother Victoria once hated but
since emerging from a coma can only recall the good
times she and Nick Newman enjoyed as kids although
she was away at boarding school when most, if not
all of it happened, asked if Sabrina "cheated" on
their father. With who? The former boy toy Philippe
who blew into Genoa City via Paris for a day? Within
a week or so of her marriage?
You see, that's the problem. People like Nick and
Victoria think that because they cheat and slime
around, everyone does. Or, how about Nick's concern
that in order to save his failing magazine he'll do
anything so long as it's not illegal? Here he's
partnered with a disgraced state senator and he's
worried about illegalities? And this magazine will
be the legacy he'll leave his children? See why I'm
worried about the children? Pity Noah Newman if he
becomes a Jack Abbott going around whining that
Restless Style was founded by his father and thus he
must save it.
Not that Noah will, you may have heard that in
defiance of Victor's wishes RSM will become a
success. Jack will take "drastic measures" to pull
the magazine out of the red and you may have already
seen the signs. Not more than a month has passed and
already there are two issues on the street with a
third almost ready to go. That's the one Victoria
will appear on the cover of. You backwoods people in
Tennessee see? That's the publisher's sister on the
cover of a fashion magazine. Never heard of Victoria
Hellstrom? Thank God for that. Never heard of Nick
Newman, or how the rich boy can't stop saying that
he's got to get out from under his father's shadow?
Never heard of a magazine suffering from low sales
and low advertising rates sending at great expense a
professor to the Australian Outback to research an
article on Aborigine Art? Think Professor Gerbil
will leave town before discovering that Jack hacked
his article on Sabrina? Then you must not know much
about Genoa City.
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