Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Blind Item #6

Reporter - Do your kids have a video game system?
A list mostly movie actress with multiple Academy Award nominations - No they don't. I don't believe in them and I would never allow them to have something like that. They should read books or play outside. There is no place for them.
Reporter - Didn't you earn $2M filming commercials for one of those companies?
At that point a publicist came in and everything was stopped.

57 comments:

  1. No clue but tv and video game snobs make me crazy...the key is parenting right? Set time limits and make sure your kids also read and go outside.

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  2. I thought of Angelina Jolie and the Tomb Raider series

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  3. no Amy Adams : only one kid and no commercial for video games

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  4. Nicole Kidman
    Did commercials for some hand held video gaming device.

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  5. Nicole Kidman did DS commercials!

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  6. I thought Heidi Klum if it was celebrity but actress I would guess Liv Tyler. Meh not much of a BI detective but I tried!

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  7. Oh yes totally Nicole!!

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  8. I could see Nic as having no clue what the nannies let her kids do.

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  9. Naomi watts -King kong

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  10. I can't hate on gaming systems. My boys who are now 18 and 16, were able to learn how to behave online in a very controlled enviroment (Thank you COD Klans! Hubby also plays) and nurture a love of history.

    Who could this be?? Sounds like it is supposed to be GOOP, how many times she was nominated? Maybe Julia Roberts.

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  11. Aren't Nicole's second set of kids too young for that anyways?

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  12. Sounds like Julia also

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  13. Man, I don't see a need for a publicist to shut that down.

    "I'm an actress. I've played a lot of roles I don't want my kids to emulate. Next?"

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    1. Exactly. Guess I'm a video game snob too. Have seen people sink far too much time in them and thinking they're accomplishing something. When I'm wasting time, like right now, I like it to be apparent.

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  14. Nicole Kidman's kids are a few young for video games or to read in my opinion

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  15. does Kate Winslet any commercial for one of these companies?

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  16. Angie lets her kids eat crickets, I doubt she freakin cares. Hell, she was playin with knives at their age! Knives!

    It's not Angelina.

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    1. This comment made me laugh and snort. How embarrassing.

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  17. 2 hrs of video/iphone/tv/games a day is plenty. Kids should be using other brain parts too.

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    1. Quasi on topic- my pet peeve is having that motherf*cking tv on ALL DAY LONG!! Wld drive me crazy!! Bad for kids and adults, yet many people get that tv going before both eyes open. FIRST see if anything you want to watch, THEN, then put tv on. Ugh!!

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  18. I agree that Kidmans kids are probably too young to have prompted the question. Did Gwyneth ever promote a system?

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    1. Think she promoted DS for her Goop stuff. Said you could use them for organization or something? I could be thinking of like Dianna Agron. Idk.

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  19. I'm sure if it got back to the people she was working for they probably wouldn't use her again Andrew. Perhaps there's another commercial in the wings? It does sound like Goopy.

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  20. All I know is there is no way in hell I would have not fled from my car at a rest stop if my 2-year-old did not have our Ipad on a 14 hour trip to Charleston on Good Friday. Seriously. That was one of the longest days of my life.

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  21. @ Susan, I totally hear you. My daughter Cranky Pants, HAAAAAAAATED the car at that age. She either didn't want to get out, or go. I used to lie to her and tell her often, "We are going bye bye to the house" Well that kinda worked until she figured out where were were! LOL

    The good news is, she is now 13 (going on 30 ugh!) and totally grew out of it. Hang in there, it does get better!

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    1. I have no clue who this is, but had to throw in that Nic's kids are 2 and 4 (well, as of an article I found from Jan 2013) - heck yes, they're old enough to play with "electronics" (my kids' term)! Furthermore, they can be awesome learning tools if they're used with guidance. And fantastic sanity savers for parents - you better believe I had a portable VCR (my kids are kind of old) in effect on long road trips when my two were little. The best laid plans go right out the window when you're trying to drive all day and your kids are screaming in the back seat!!

      You guys would be blown away, I think, at how much we use technology in the classroom these days. It's a huge part of life, like it or not.

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    2. Susan, I used to fantasize about driving my minivan right off a cliff in those situations. Yes, it does get better. You'll think you might die before it does, but it will :-).

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  22. Alba? I thought she did on for DS a while back, maybe I am wrong though. Unsure of the nominations because everyone says she is a horrible actress. I forget how old her kids are but both are girls

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  23. Kidman and Meh.

    The DS commercials were also designed to market to adults and women. I remember Kidman's and Beyonce's, for instance.

    1.) Kidman wasn't marketing the DS to kids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K_ucFkMjEA

    2.) Her oldest is, what? Four? Kinda young for that anyway.

    And I say this as someone who is married to a gamer and has no problem with Baby Nom getting in on it in an age-appropriate way. As long as he also goes outside to play or reads, too. Some kind of balance.

    Oh, and I would be willing to be an EPIC hypocrite for $2 million. I'll make amends after the check clears.

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  24. I dont see a problem with it

    I'll go with Nicole Kidman?

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  25. I'm a gamer. So is my 14 yr old. Its a fantastic bargaining tool when I'm desperate. And playing little big planet together is one of our favourite pass times. All things in moderation I say.

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  27. She doesn't believe in them as in she doesn't believe they exist like ghosts or Santa? I hate when people say sh*t like that. Don't know, don't care who this is. The nannies who spend the 95% of the time she's NOT with them might have a different answer. Real parents know it's hard enough to raise your own kids let alone judge how others raise theirs.

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  28. I've always been a big one for not handing over my expensive technology to my kid, but the Kindle Fire saved my sanity on an eight hour long road trip, just me and the 2T. It also allowed me a silent, relaxing pedi last week. Long live Kindle FreeTime and alphabet games!

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  29. NomNom, it is a great way to get the kids savvy on the interwebz. And also a great thing for baby NomNom when they know other adults will rat them out, if they are naughty!

    My daughter on the other hand, she isn't into gaming like my boys, and we had to totally reinvent the wheel with that one.

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  30. I love it when someone says something that idiotic. She "doesn't believe" in video games? As in they don't exist? She could've said she doesn't approve of letting kids play video games, and I'd have no problem with it.

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  31. Kids learn a lot of eye hand coordination stuff on those video games which I think does them well in the current technological world we live and now work in. And not all video games are violent - you can find educational but fun.

    We played board games and card games, what's the difference. How many hours wasted playing Monopoly or Snakes and Ladders or Go Fish.

    But yes the key is balance.

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  32. I brought my son's Ipad and a bag of dum dum lollipops to Stride Rite last week because getting my 2-year-old new shoes is also on par with doctor appointments, haircuts and long-ass car rides to Charleston. Needless to say, the kids loved me; not so sure about the moms. Hee. A toddler momma gots to do what a toddler momma gots to do.

    I don't know what asshat celebrity this blind is, but it makes me think about Madonna and her bullshit about no TV. Honestly, if my mom and millions of other moms felt the same way in the 80s, none of us would know who she is. My mom never gave a shit about us watching MTV or our reading materials. And she is hella conservative. She was just kind of carefree about our entertainment.

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  33. And it's freaking downpouring here, so I'm definitely not winning mother of the year awards today. Lunch was applesauce and goldfishies; entertainment is Ipad, trains, Ipad, play-doh, Ipad, go fish, Ipad, naptime. Praise the lord.

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  34. Videogames are great. You learn more History, strategy and sociology playing "age of empires" than most books published this century, and I mean crap as paulo coelho, ken follett and many others.

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  35. I barely play videogames, but I would do it before a lot of things.

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  36. This reporter deserves major kudos. I wish all celebrity reporters were like that and not just a bunch of ass-kissers who never ask hard questions. Celebrity interviews would be SO much more entertaining that way.

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  37. For those of you saying you let your little little kids play 'electronics', so do I...video games, like a video game system is a different story as they are harder to play, even if they are geared towards young kids. We usually let the little guy 'play' with a controller that isn't hooked up. Mother of the year material right here;)

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  38. In self-defense, we read six books already. Yay. I think I have all of our Thomas books committed to memory, because I read them to him 600 times a day. Now dinner and laundry. Oh, the glamour.....

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  39. The way it's worded -- "multiple AA noms -- makes me think that this actress HASN'T won. So, not Nicole, Goop, or Angie in my head.

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  40. julianne moore ftw

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  41. Didn't Kudrow do one of those DS game commercials, like a recipe with the kids or something?

    My husband played those games, and if it weren't for my kid he wouldn't have gotten past certain levels. I'm not listening to him whine. Jeez. Lol!

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  42. I didn't grow up with any access to video games, but all the software programmers I work with who make a lot more money than I do did. They turned out nerdy, but rich. So.

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  43. Jeesica Alba did DS commercials -
    I believe Gwen Stefani did too.

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