Mark Steyn: Stars starving for attention

Orange County Register ^ | July 9, 2006 | Mark Steyn

[John Jorsett]

Very old Hollywood joke:

Starving beggar with tin cup: "I haven't eaten for three days."

Zsa Zsa Gabor: "Dahlink, I wish I had your will power."

Up-to-the-minute Hollywood joke, from Agence-France Presse:

"U.S. Stars Align In Anti-Iraq War Hunger Strike.

"Star Hollywood actor-activists including Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon and anti-war campaigners led by bereaved mother Cindy Sheehan plan to launch a hunger strike, demanding the immediate return of U.S. troops from Iraq.

"As Americans get set to fire up barbeques in patriotic celebration of U.S. Independence Day on July 4, anti-war protesters planned to savor a last meal outside the White House before embarking on a 'Troops Home Fast' at midnight…

"Penn, Sarandon, novelist Alice Walker and actor Danny Glover will join a 'rolling' fast, a relay in which 2,700 activists pledge to refuse food for at least 24 hours, and then hand over to a comrade."

So Sean Penn is starving himself to death, but just for a day? Brilliant! If Gandhi had been that smart, he'd still have a movie career. Willie Nelson and Michael Moore are also among those participating in the "rolling fast," which in Michael's case will involve going without the roll. Greater love hath no man than to lay down his lunch for his friends.

[hatfieldmccoy]

Whoo Boy,

Steyn was on his game this column, this is 45 caliber hollow point writing.Good shot Mark!!!!

[Cyber Liberty]

Cindy Sheehan is on this rolling fast as well. It's called a diet. Now that she's single again she's lookin' for some action(ewwwww).

You should be flayed alive for that mental picture.

[DJ MacWoW]

Now that she's single again she's lookin' for some action(ewwwww).

She's outta luck. Barbaro has a broken leg.

[Blind Eye Jones]

Yes, the hardships and sacrifice of being devoted to a cause!

[Titan Magroyne]

Buhahahahahahahahaha!

[mewzilla]

Thanks for posting this :)

[eureka!]

marking

[John Jorsett]

Thanks for posting this :)

You're welcome. I stumbled across it by accident when looking for something else. I didn't know Steyn appeared in the Orange County Register.

[sine_nomine]

You're not saying...?

[sig226]

Will the last person to leave California please be sure to flush?

:)

[beyond the sea]

How about if Cameron Diaz and Gwyneth Paltrow promise to put on 20 pounds for every month Bush refuses to end his illegal war?

How about adding Annie Coulter to that short list for a month or two.

;-)

[finnigan2]

All of the posts up to this point seem to focus on the humorous and sarcastic barbs that Steyn aims at the celebrity fast. However, I think that the most important point that he makes in the article comes at the end where he writes:
" Indeed, in all their contempt for America as an effete narcissistic ninny too soft and self-absorbed to stand any pain, even al-Qaida couldn't have come up with as withering a parody of the Great Satan's decadence as a celebrity pseudo-fast."
I think the whole article was designed to lead up to this one, final, serious observation.