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...only thing trendier in Hollywood than three-week stints in rehab and adopting children from developing nations is advocating for the environment. Celebrities ranging from recent Nobel Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore ’69 to Leonardo DiCaprio have jumped on the bandwagon, all promoting their own spin on the necessity of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While the elevated publicity these famous faces bring to this serious issue is beneficial, a great majority of these stars do not live by the standards they promote. Hypocrisy is rampant in today’s environmental movement, and Hollywood...
...Hollywood stars have long used their fame to advocate changes in our society. Today’s stars are falling short in their environmental efforts, holding a double standard that allows them to continue to fly private jets while imploring other Americans to drive hybrids and turn down their thermostats. In today’s celebrity obsessed society, where pictures of celebs are splashed across dozens of magazines, websites, and newspapers, this failure to practice what they preach detracts from their message. Americans want to emulate the stars, not just obey them...
...sustainable. Our planet is disintegrating, and unless we begin to change our ways—and not just talk about changing them—those $10 million dollar Malibu homes will no longer exist for Hollywood’s celebrities to frolic in. America has plenty of these phony Hollywood enviro-celebswhat it needs now is someone who actually practices what he preaches...
...their kitchen. So audiences have cheered on Rodentia from Mickey to the aspiring chef of Ratatouille. So, too, with the social, saucer-eyed, erect-standing mongoose relatives of Meerkat Manor, who have followed in the paw prints of The Lion King's Timon to raise their species' star in Hollywood. The Kalahari nature show is Animal Planet's biggest hit, a saga of turf wars, sex, betrayal and cuddly pups. It's manna from TV heaven: all the drama of human life, none of the salaries or liability issues...
...payday for them. Though the couple has never indicated that they are willing to sell their story, they then could be flooded with offers of huge sums for an exclusive interview. A book contract would almost certainly be in the seven figures, and it's hard to believe Hollywood or television won't come calling, too. But taking that kind of money, if they chose to, could prove difficult. "It could backfire on them," Clifford says. "They can't be seen as cashing in on Madeleine...