The Oscars have gone to the Designers

I'm all for fashion and looking beautiful. Anyone who knows me would tell you I'm a sucker for a great pair of shoes and a beautiful dress, but this is getting kinda ridiculous. Isn't the Oscars supposed to be about the arts...you know the acting, directing, screenplays, the scores,etc? When did we all get so shallow we forgot what was important? The real work!
I understand that most individuals who do not work in Hollywood must live vicariously through the starlets and handsome leading men who grace our big screens every year in order to give us a couple hours of enjoyment a week. But Really? Come on. Every channel I turn on now a days is equivalent to a political campaign. It starts at the beginning of each year and is never ending. Who is wearing what. Who is dating whom. Who is putting their foot in their mouth or going to court for a infraction. Not much different than politics really.
Every day I turn on the TV or read the newspapers and hear complaining about our children and the roles they are playing in today's world. How they are becoming the "ME" generation! Lets take a good look around us for a minute and ask ourselves a question....Haven't we caused that by all the things we have put out there on TV for them to see. I am not saying Hollywood is the cause of the breakdown no just the opposite. I am saying our need to get closer into the lives of these leading lady's n men have become such an obsession and need for the public that the demand has out-weighed what should be reality. Reality for adults and reality especially for our children.
I grew up for a few years in the Hollywood scene and let me tell you it isn't as glamours as one might think. Their lives are not much different than the average person(s). Sure they have a little bit more money and can probably afford a bit more than the average American household, but when the lights and cameras are off they are just like you and me. They have the same problems, the same concerns, the same stresses. They too worry whether or not they are making their children entitled. They too worry whether or not we have gone to far.