I’m totally following you CB. That SMP guy sounds like he really needs to look in the mirror.

I can’t wait to see the brave one! JODIE POWER!

Like most militant non-Christians, you take bits and pieces from the Bible to present false conclusions. Likewise, you skim over relavent details to put forth a politically correct interpretation that you had pre-ordained from the beginning. When you do that, you can use ANY reference to justify anything at all. The boundaries are set forth only by your imagination and amorality.

I might point out that Jodie Foster herself admitted to emotional problems and it was a major factor in her leaving Hollywood to go to a selective East Coast college. She was the target of perverted stalkers (of which Hinckley was but one) who pursued her there. Brook Shields’ experience parallels her’s in many ways.

When you sexualize children in the popular culture, you initiate crimes against them and do them spiritual harm. Not just the little actors and models, but all the other children who follow them. To deny this is, bluntly, to outrageously break a certain rule about “bearing false witness”. Forgive me if I pontificate here!

By the way, that sneering bit about “Disney bimbos” was incorrectly aimed at me. It did not originate the term. “Read the article again”. I reject the concept- just as I do that which contends that children who are perversely degraded on a film set are somehow better than those who’ve eschewed such roles. That a few, highly-publicized ex-Disney kids have brought infamy on themselves as adults is to insult the very many who went on to lead decent lives.

Look to the corruptiveness of Hollywood as a whole- a corruptiveness illustrated by the ongoing and expanding exploitation of child actors. It didn’t begin with “Taxi Driver”. Regrettably, it’s not liable to end with “Hounddog”- the child porn film that Miss Foster helped to make possible and now upholds. And may God (yes, MY God, CB!) help our kids and forgive those who threaten them in this manner.

I am so glad that your God grants forgiveness over and over again. You need forgiveness for breaking his commandments (idle gossip, right?). So since you consider yourself of a higher authority and to act as mediator for God’s giving of grace and blessings I will not wish the same for you. Your already getting it, right? Pontificator?

Miss Foster’s memory is either flawed or deliberately slanted. Obviously, she doesn’t “remember” the emotional difficulties she suffered after that movie and how she quit Hollywood for school to resolve them. And, incredibly, she ignores the perveted stalkers who resultingly plagued her- one of whom tried to assassinate a president to gain her attention.

Eventually, she went on to a successful adult career. But at what price? Her outlook and life is insular Hollywood right down the line. She typically calls Dakota Fanning’s role in “Hounddog” “brave”- this being the common cinema euphemism for utter self-degradation. What she ignores is that, despicable as “Taxi Driver” was in it’s use of her as a child actress, she still never had to directly enact erotic scenes or was exposed to the ultimate levels of depraved concepts. Dakota did and was… and at the same age of twelve!

Far better for this child if she HAD become a “Disney bimbo” instead of the real thing, as Foster has. A Hollywood freakout, living in an unreal environment, incapable of solid relationships, etc. Little wonder Miss Foster’s also a confirmed atheist. You don’t have to look far beyond her nude cover shot to see all this!

Dear Dakota: Please carefully read the words of Jodie Foster, here. I know you were led to admire her career; no doubt by someone who had a “Taxi Driver/Hounddog” role in mind for your future from the beginning. You’re now 13 and you’ve seen your good name tarnished, the loss of your peer-aged fanbase and have been humiliated at Sundance by your exploiters before the entire world. Is this what you expected when you followed your dreams to Hollywood? Is this really where you want your life to go?

May God bless you and grant you His grace.