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Help! Ryan Seacrest Needs a Sense of Humor Transplant

Get over yourself Ryan Seacrest! Rant on Hollywood's bloated, ego-driven insanity.

The highlight of Sunday's obnoxious, self-important and bloated lunacy for me was Sacha Baron Cohen spilling the alleged ashes of late moronic dictator Kim Jong Il on Ryan Seacrest.

Cohen told Seacrest that when someone asked him who he was wearing, he could now say Kim Jong Il. Seacrest squealed like a little girl in horror and couldn't even recover, practically crying to his next few interviews that Cohen spilled ashes on the red carpet. The look of horror on Seacrest's face was akin to someone watching dumbfounded as innocent children are gunned down in cold blood on the streets of Syria.

What a joke, and I don't mean Cohen, who makes no pretense about the craziness of his activities or his business. On the other hand I have one thing to say to Seacrest, who spends his time asking people what overpriced frock they are sporting or over-the-top jewels are bedecking their anorexic, skeletal bodies while Americans are sleeping in the streets, children go to bed hungry here and are being starved for political purposes in Somalia. "Hey Ryan, get over yourself!!!!!"

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Perhaps it is spitting into the wind to criticize Hollywood on its own turf and yes I know the whole experience is a guilty pleasure, but the blatant self-important tone is too much to ignore. "Bag of Bones" (aka Angelina Jolie) posed arrogantly for the masses. If she wasn't wearing couture she could have been the newest poster child for the eating disorder clinics of America. Parading around like a skeleton while young girls are throwing up their guts to emulate these divas is no less egregious because she adopts numerous children. As someone who struggled with weight issues my entire life, I find it perplexing that these women are feted and admired.

Hollywood never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity to do the right thing.

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Taking it all so seriously? REALLY? It's only a movie. They don't call it Tinseltown for nothing and placing importance on jewels, gowns and who George Clooney is dating is beyond trivial. I would hope that the entire world, which is unfortunately watching this homage to the worst of American materialism, does not judge our country and its citizens by these examples.

Hollywood has its place in American culture. It is a vehicle to entertain and distract us from the often too heavy burdens of life. At times it's even a good mechanism for teaching and exposing the ills of society. It employs people and plays a role in the economy. For these achievements the movie industry should be applauded. For hyping materialism, glorifying anorexia and then pretending these things have some semblance of importance to the real issues that exist in this world is inexcusable.

I remember years ago when Sharon Stone was asked who she was wearing. "T-shirt by the Gap," she replied. Perhaps it is time for Hollywood to come back down to earth and check out what is happening here. I know some starving children in America and Africa could eat for a year on the price of one diva's designer duds.

Seacrest should get over himself and unfortunately, he isn't the only one who needs to.

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