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Clint Eastwood's daughter under fire after destroying a $100,000 Hermes Birkin handbag
Telegraph UK ^ | May 29, 2012 | Belinda White

Posted on 05/30/2012 4:45:39 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

As the daughter of one of Hollywood's most prolific actor/directors, and star of realty TV show Mrs. Eastwood & Company chronicling the lives of her extended family, Francesca Eastwood is well used to being in the eye of the storm.

But Clint Eastwood's 18-year-old daughter is on the receiving end of vicious public outcry after a photographic stunt with her artist boyfriend Tyler Shields backfired.

Eastwood and Shields - known for his work with video portraits and celebrity photography - decided to publicly demolish a $100,000 crocodile Hermès Birkin bag by setting it on fire before taking a chainsaw to it, all in the name of art.

(Excerpt) Read more at fashion.telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: backfire; clinteastwood; eastwood; handbag; hermes; hollywood; performanceart
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1 posted on 05/30/2012 4:45:51 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Horror!!!!


2 posted on 05/30/2012 4:47:53 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Should have used a Koran


3 posted on 05/30/2012 4:48:38 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

These people are terminally bored.

Which makes them terminally boring.

They can do as they like, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.


4 posted on 05/30/2012 4:49:30 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I don’t care about the artsy-fartsy crap, but if it was her bag she could crap in it and feed it back to the crocs, for all I care. Just gave a job to croc-bag maker and a hunter, skinner and a tanner.


5 posted on 05/30/2012 4:52:24 AM PDT by Safetgiver
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To: Clint N. Suhks

Oh, the Hand-baggery!!

Would it make Mrs. S. weep?


6 posted on 05/30/2012 4:54:16 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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"For her part, Francesca is so far unfazed by the reaction with sources close to her telling TMZ she knew people would be shocked, but that they just don't understand art."

My favorite part of the story. We little people just don't understand art. It takes an 18 year old spoiled brat to teach us the true beauty and meaning of art. Thank you Francesca....
7 posted on 05/30/2012 5:00:46 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

This kind of crapart is about as worthwhile as watching Steve O from Jackass shoot bottle rockets out of his butt.

On second thought, it’s less worthwhile.

(By the way - I had the tagline a long time before this stunt. Even Ween was ahead of curve as opposed to this vacuous duo.)


8 posted on 05/30/2012 5:04:18 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Take off the Hermes label, and the handbag is only worth $500...


9 posted on 05/30/2012 5:09:56 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
It's not like she destoyed something productive worth $100,000 such as a piece of constuction equipment. She destroyed $20 of leather with $99,980 of celebrity ego added to it.
10 posted on 05/30/2012 5:11:24 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Hang Em High.


11 posted on 05/30/2012 5:15:52 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (We are the 53%. 47% of Americans pay no taxes; end the free ride...)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

She has no Hermès bags, only scarves. Thank God!

No she pretty much just wears her Blueberry lately. Sometimes her Channel
for dressy stuff. Her Jimmy Shoe, Goochi and Louie Futons stay in the closet.
I hid her Sacks card...


12 posted on 05/30/2012 5:17:00 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
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To: Tax-chick
Eastwood and Shields - known for his work with video portraits and celebrity photography - decided to publicly demolish a $100,000 crocodile Hermès Birkin bag by setting it on fire before taking a chainsaw to it, all in the name of art.

It's all fun and games until someone wrecks a handbag.

All this righteous indignation over the destruction of a $100k bag, but not a raised eyebrow over a *$100k* bag. Looks like the bag-burners are the ones who had a better idea of the true value and use for the idol er bag, although they surely could have picked up its twin at a flea market for $10... :-)

13 posted on 05/30/2012 5:17:59 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Mrs. Eastwood is even more vapid than Kris Kardashian.

I did not think that was even possible.


14 posted on 05/30/2012 5:20:56 AM PDT by exit82 (Democrats are the enemies of freedom. Be Andrew Breitbart.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

In attempting to educate us unwashed peasants about “art,” she unwittingly revealed herself for an utter fool, in that she paid $100,000 for a satchel to carry her tampons in.

And she also pointed up the duplicity of a cadre of elitists who berate the common folks for neglecting the poor and downtrodden, while she and her friends vainly waste $100K on a self-indulgent stunt. That $100K could have fed a few starving peasants for years.


15 posted on 05/30/2012 5:21:11 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Ah, the ageless art of large-scale panty-knotting.


16 posted on 05/30/2012 5:23:00 AM PDT by Méabh
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
What a waste of money.

She should have spent it on vodka, heroin, and a sex change, like a normal celebrity kid.

17 posted on 05/30/2012 5:23:27 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead

That’s funny.


18 posted on 05/30/2012 5:27:26 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Cowboy Bob
"Take off the Hermes label, and the handbag is only worth $500..."

I suspect that was the point of the whole affair. I am sure that the first thing most people thought when they read this was "How can a handbag be worth 100K"? By destroying the handbag in such a frivolous manner, they are rejecting the notion that it has such a value, although they had to pay 100K to do it.

19 posted on 05/30/2012 5:29:21 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: Clint N. Suhks

LOL!

BF bought me a fake Pravda at the flea market for $10 (he actually thought it was real!).


20 posted on 05/30/2012 5:30:17 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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