Schwarzennegger Smokes Cubans, Larry King Wears Depends - Star Trash Art!!

[matcom]

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NEW YORK -- Spend time visiting galleries here, and you may conclude that some art is garbage. In "Star Trash," a new exhibition in SoHo, the garbage is art.

French photojournalists Pascal Rostain and Bruno Mouron have spent the past 15 years surreptitiously sifting through famous people's garbage. They select various items of interest, arrange them on a black velvet background, and then photograph the display. The resulting poster-size works, titled only with the name of the celebrity, are more fascinating than Us Weekly or People magazine could ever be.

It is vastly entertaining to learn that someone in Marlon Brando's Mulholland Drive home crushes their emptied Evian bottles. If these items were all discarded by Brando and not a member of his family or household staff, "Marlon Brando" (2004) tells us that Brando drinks copious amounts of peach-flavored diet Snapple iced tea and eats quarter-pound Hebrew National jumbo beef franks. He snacks on Rocheach raspberry and apricot hamantaschen pastries. He reads the Los Angeles Asian Journal. And, perhaps, he dyes his hair with the L'Oreal Preference shade of soft black.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's garbage seems to confirm his penchant for Casillas Cuban cigars, a vice that would mean that the celebrity governor violates U.S. laws restricting imports from Cuba.

But the trash that attracted the most attention here since the exhibit opened last week belonged to CNN yakker Larry King. His garbage yielded a wrapper for Depends, a product for adult incontinence.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56765-2004Jun20.html

[lanparty]

1. Tasteless!!!!

But the trash that attracted the most attention here since the exhibit opened last week belonged to CNN yakker Larry King. His garbage yielded a wrapper for Depends, a product for adult incontinence.

This is kind of tasteless. Larry King is an honorable man. And I'm not sure I would even want to know if Dubaya wore Depends!!!!

[histohoney]

3. With lanparty

on this one. No one needs to make fun of someone else's medical conditions. Beware what lies ahead for us all in that department. If the photogs had a incontinence issue, STDs, etc.. or other personal medical issues, I feel pretty sure in guessing that wouldn't conceder it entertainment for the public in general.
It's tasteless and just mean.

[lanparty]

4. Don't become the enemy ...

That's what THERE side does. We can oppose them without stooping to the level of berating people just because they are old.

[AndyTiedye]

2. Cuban Cigars Seem to be a Republican Thing

> Arnold Schwarzenegger's garbage seems to confirm his penchant for
> Casillas Cuban cigars, a vice that would mean that the celebrity
> governor violates U.S. laws restricting imports from Cuba.