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Sarah Jessica Parker
Sex and the City , a frank television show about modern urban women and sex, was a ground-breaking hit from the moment it premiered. The key to its success wass its smart and sexy star, Sarah Jessica Parker. Marc Shapiro’s riveting biography charts Parker’s rise to fame, from her poverty-stricken roots in Nelsonville, Ohio to overnight stardom on Broadway in Annie. Sarah Jessica Parker includes insight into her Hollywood success in the television series Square Pegs and breakout movie role in Footloose ; her tragic romance with drug addict Robert Downey Jr. and subsequent high-profile relationships with John F. Kennedy Jr. and Nicholas Cage; her marriage with the man of her dreams, Matthew Broderick; and why she refuses to appear nude in movies and photo shoots.
208 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2001
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Marc Shapiro
128 books76 followersMarc Shapiro is the author of the New York Times bestselling biography, J.K. Rowling: The Wizard behind Harry Potter, and more than a dozen other celebrity biographies. He has been a freelance entertainment journalist for more than twenty-five years, covering film, television, and music for a number of national and international newspapers and magazines.
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February 21, 2019
Sarah Jessica Parker is a typical narcissistic celebrity that cares about nothing but fame and fortune.
She has whored herself out to the fashion industry even as the oldest and most respected fashion houses in the world drop fur from their clothing lines, Parkers continues to wear fur, promote veal--where even the most ardent and conservative meat eaters, boycott this cruelest of industries.
When confronted with evidence of the animal torture that went into making her and her husband's Canadian Goose Down jacket she was just annoyed that animal rights activists interpreted her shoe line debut. She was impertinent and blew them off. Most people, when confronted with the same information about their own goose down jacket, are horrified because they really just didn't know. But Sarah Jessica Parker cares about nothing but money, power, fame and what she thinks are pretty clothes, no matter the amount of suffering another living creature had to endure for her to wear them.
**Check out the cruelty of Canadian Goose down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnnkH...
Where geese's feathers are plucked out of a goose that's rendered helpless as it's penned down, fully conscious, screaming in agony with no pain killers. They are left bleeding, their entire body red and raw, only to grow all of their feathers back at once--a painful process. A feather ripping through the skin one at a time, is no problem for a bird, but all at once? It's like tiny little needles growing all at once on already raw skin--only to be kept in freezing temperatures in crowded metal cages, so their feathers grow as thick as possible. All just to have them ripped out again several months later. And the process continues until the poor bird finally succumbs and is made into dog food.
But Canadian Goose Down is particularly cruel and it is from not one but two tortured animals. The fur around the hood. Or the skin of a fox who died a brutal death so that Sarah Jessica Parker could wear it's flesh around her face. Raising foxes for fur is especially cruel, kept in freezing tiny cages where they can just barely turn around. They become mad from lack of stimulation. But, they also trap wild foxes in a mid-evil metal claw trap. Bad enough that their foot is caught, and if no one comes to claim the fox, she suffers not only the agony of her foot being ripped open by these iron jaws, but she will starve to death slowly, or be attacked by another animal with no real way to defend herself. But sometimes, their nose will get stuck it trap, and they are stuck that way, helpless...all for Sarah. And Sarah is a trend setter right? How many people see her in her vile little outfits and want to look just like her? She can wear ANYTHING she wants--she knows she sets trends but she chooses to continue to wear animal flesh.
POINT BEING, it's unfortunate that Marc Shapiro finds Sarah Jessica so worthy of a memoir and praise. Her ability to act doesn't make her good at being a human being. Of course, we find that most celebrities are narcissistic and solipsistic but Sarah Jessica doesn't even try to hide it.
Wearing the skin of dead animals, eating their flesh whether they were babies when they were slaughtered or not.
This book made me want to vomit. Why anyone would think this impetuous slave to the fashion industry is worthy of anything but a can of red paint in her face, is beyond me.
I liked Sex in the City. I owned the Box set. But I was a child who, didn't know any better at the time. But unlike Sarah, when I learned, I vowed never to support that kind of cruelty. If someone just doesn't know, that's one thing. Sarah knows and doesn't care because the only thing Sarah Jessica Parker cares about in this world is Sarah.
She has whored herself out to the fashion industry even as the oldest and most respected fashion houses in the world drop fur from their clothing lines, Parkers continues to wear fur, promote veal--where even the most ardent and conservative meat eaters, boycott this cruelest of industries.
When confronted with evidence of the animal torture that went into making her and her husband's Canadian Goose Down jacket she was just annoyed that animal rights activists interpreted her shoe line debut. She was impertinent and blew them off. Most people, when confronted with the same information about their own goose down jacket, are horrified because they really just didn't know. But Sarah Jessica Parker cares about nothing but money, power, fame and what she thinks are pretty clothes, no matter the amount of suffering another living creature had to endure for her to wear them.
**Check out the cruelty of Canadian Goose down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnnkH...
Where geese's feathers are plucked out of a goose that's rendered helpless as it's penned down, fully conscious, screaming in agony with no pain killers. They are left bleeding, their entire body red and raw, only to grow all of their feathers back at once--a painful process. A feather ripping through the skin one at a time, is no problem for a bird, but all at once? It's like tiny little needles growing all at once on already raw skin--only to be kept in freezing temperatures in crowded metal cages, so their feathers grow as thick as possible. All just to have them ripped out again several months later. And the process continues until the poor bird finally succumbs and is made into dog food.
But Canadian Goose Down is particularly cruel and it is from not one but two tortured animals. The fur around the hood. Or the skin of a fox who died a brutal death so that Sarah Jessica Parker could wear it's flesh around her face. Raising foxes for fur is especially cruel, kept in freezing tiny cages where they can just barely turn around. They become mad from lack of stimulation. But, they also trap wild foxes in a mid-evil metal claw trap. Bad enough that their foot is caught, and if no one comes to claim the fox, she suffers not only the agony of her foot being ripped open by these iron jaws, but she will starve to death slowly, or be attacked by another animal with no real way to defend herself. But sometimes, their nose will get stuck it trap, and they are stuck that way, helpless...all for Sarah. And Sarah is a trend setter right? How many people see her in her vile little outfits and want to look just like her? She can wear ANYTHING she wants--she knows she sets trends but she chooses to continue to wear animal flesh.
POINT BEING, it's unfortunate that Marc Shapiro finds Sarah Jessica so worthy of a memoir and praise. Her ability to act doesn't make her good at being a human being. Of course, we find that most celebrities are narcissistic and solipsistic but Sarah Jessica doesn't even try to hide it.
Wearing the skin of dead animals, eating their flesh whether they were babies when they were slaughtered or not.
This book made me want to vomit. Why anyone would think this impetuous slave to the fashion industry is worthy of anything but a can of red paint in her face, is beyond me.
I liked Sex in the City. I owned the Box set. But I was a child who, didn't know any better at the time. But unlike Sarah, when I learned, I vowed never to support that kind of cruelty. If someone just doesn't know, that's one thing. Sarah knows and doesn't care because the only thing Sarah Jessica Parker cares about in this world is Sarah.
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