Less Than Model Behavior

I stumbled across an article that has me perplexed. It’s about rapper Foxy Brown’s arrest in Florida a few weeks ago. She says she was dragged out of the beauty supply store half dressed and harassed by the police for being black. Hmm. The owner of the store says he was closing the shop and she was taking to long in the bathroom and fought with police when they came to the store. Hmm.

You know when you hear a story and something rings false. It’s hard for me to believe that she was plucked out of the toilet with her panties down for no good reason. This is when they need a very special episode of the Foxy Brown Show (if she had one) so we could see what really went on. I also find it curious that she brought her side of the story to a church. Clever way to drum up support.

Either way she’s not coming across very well. It was only three years ago she was in hot water over throwing her cell phone at two manicurists. What could get you so pissed off that you throw a cell phone at the girl doing your nails? I guess I should ask Naomi Campbell, she’s cultivated it into an art form. She loves throwing things at people. What the hell goes on in your mind when you snap like that?

It seems like a celebrity right of passage to vent your rage on the working class. You haven’t arrived until you’ve had an unfortunate falling down moment. Look at it this way:

Russell Crowe hates it when he can’t make a long distance call, so much so, that he cracked his concierge across the head with a phone

Sharon Stone berates Germans in their homeland during auctions in which she calls them dirty little Germans

Mel Gibson relishes incoherent rants to the police about the Jews’ nasty habit of causing wars

Britney Spears wields umbrellas and flashes her bare vagina at paparazzi

Michael Richards participates in random racist remarks invoking images of lynchings

I’m not saying that celebrities can’t have an off day. I just don’t understand why they can’t contain their craziness to their own circle. Let Tom Cruise jump on Will Smith’s couch, not in front of Mid-western housewives in Oprah’s audience. Maybe it’s just the price you pay for living a public life. All I know is I’ve had it with bad behavior in Hollywood. Don’t get me wrong. It’s highly entertaining and sometimes amusing but enough with the aggression.

Why do you think celebrities are so highly volatile? Too much Botox?