Posted on 06/04/2012 3:32:49 PM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
“Let me tell you about the very rich,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote. “They are different from you and me.”
He was absolutely right. And we need look no further than Dina Eastwood for confirmation.
On a recent episode of her new E! reality show, “Mrs. Eastwood & Company,” the wife of famed actor Clint Eastwood stood idly by as her stepdaughter Francesca and her photographer beau destroyed a $100,000 Hermes Birkin handbag to make an artistic statement.
To flaunt wealth in such a manner is nothing short of obscene.
Especially, when there are so many needful people throughout the fair land – including California’s Monterey County, where more than a quarter of children are living in poverty right outside the gates of the Eastwood family’s $20 million, 15,000-square-foot palace.
Dina Eastwood, who, as a teen growing up in the working-class city of Castro Valley,California, held minimum-wage jobs at McDonalds and cleaning apartments, obviously has forgotten where she came from.
Otherwise, there’s no way she would have stood for the destruction of a handbag that costs more than the average American earns in more than two years.
The star of “Mrs. Eastwood & Company,” which also features Francesca, her stepdaughter, and Morgan, her biological daughter with Clint, sounds especially disingenuous when she professes herself a person of compassion.
“I must volunteer on nonprofit projects to feel fulfilled,” she told Carmel Magazine.
She also told the magazine that, while she and hubby Clint are been blessed with great wealth, they are inconspicuous consumers.
“It is a value to me and it is a value to Clint,” she said. “I love purses and shoes as much as anybody else, but we do most of our shopping at Marshall’s, Ross and Mervyn’s. Clint’s very non-flippant with money. He’s a Depression-era baby.”
Apparently, the very rich couple’s values did not trickle down to daughter Francesca.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have gone along with photographer-boyfriend Tyler Shields when he decided that they should burn the red crocodile Hermes bag and attack its charred remains with a chainsaw.
Shields explained that destroying the bag was a way to demonstrate that material objects don’t define a person.
But a far better way for the envelope-pushing photog and girlfriend Francesca to make that point was to sell the $100,000 bag – a coveted favorite of such celebrities as Kim Kardashian and Victoria Beckham – and donate the proceeds to a charity serving the needful.
Dina Eastwood insists that she did not approve of the artistic “statement” by her stepdaughter and her stepdaughter’s beau. But she didn’t stop it. And she even gave the two young vulgarians undeserved publicity on her surreality show.
That makes her no less guilty than they.
What kind of people make a bag that costs $100k? Does it come with a down payment for a small home? Does it come with a car? A live-in boyfriend (from a woman’s point of view)? A free vacation for 2 weeks to the Bahamas?
That sentiment went out (if it was ever truly in) a long time ago. I would say if you are are alive you’ve been given much, and should act accordingly.
I also question what makes a purse worth $100K. I passed through a Hermes store once many years ago. I had never heard of the brand. I was looking at a scarf and the salesman informed me it was “only” $700, and “Imagine what my wife would think of it...”
I said, she’d kick my butt if I paid that much, and left.
Sanctimonious drivel
The bag in question is probably only worth 300.00 or so.
The 100,000 that was paid for it still exists...someone has that cash.
If they had actually destroyed 100,000 dollars worth of something then this would be disgraceful. Like suppose they destroyed 100,000 worth of fresh eggs.
What they actually did is spend 100,000 dollars to create a special effect....what’s the big deal?
How much American taxpayer money do each of the luxurious vacations our leader and his family take in these times of huge job losses and great economic loss cost us?
How much money did Nancy Pelosi waste on flying her family around in military aircraft (with fancy food and drink) while we paid for it? Aren't Pelosi and her spouse among the nation's richest people?
How much taxpayer money has been jetisonned to Obama donors as "stimulus funds" for solar companies that weren't financially vetted and went keput?
How many "parties" at the White House with leftist celebtrities used taxpayer funds while Americans were struggling to pay mortgages and have constant fear their job will disappear?
How old is the quote from Mrs. E about where she shops?
Mervyn’s went bankrupt in 2008.....
How old is the quote from Mrs. E about where she shops?
Mervyn’s went bankrupt in 2008.....
How old is the quote from Mrs. E about where she shops?
Mervyn’s went bankrupt in 2008.....
How old is the quote from Mrs. E about where she shops?
Mervyn’s went bankrupt in 2008.....
Can’t help but think that the destruction would be totally overlooked by the writer and sponsors if the handbag were a fetus.
I used to like Clint, but he really went downhill after Sondra Locke ruined him. Now he’s just another hollywood leftie limo lib.
Just trading his car ad money for the same in value, a ruined pukkabook.
Opps....I blame Bush.
I didn’t know Clint was married . I’ve never understood his taste in women . They all looked pale and mousey to me , but what do I know ?
-PJ
Correct. I thought she was not hot and sorta funny looking.
I’m a right-to-life Christian who would have sold the Hermes bag and used the proceeds to fund pro-life causes.
I’m a right-to-life Christian who would have sold the Hermes bag and used the proceeds to fund pro-life causes.
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