NEWS: Bringing the Classics to Hollywood, Posh Style

CULTURE: Bringing the Classics to Hollywood, Posh Style

Oh, good lord. I come home after a hard day of sleeping in and eating bagels and watching National Geographic turtle documentaries, and I expect pop-culture news to be at a certain modicum of respectability. But, of course, instead I find news reports all over the internet that Victoria Beckham is starting a Hollywood ladies' book club. Thanks, world.

Oy vey. I feel like I need to check with Ms. Alyk about the reliability of the Daily Star, but either way it sounds like a regular MENSA-fest up in this joint. I do feel bad that my initial reaction was to be all elitist about this, though. I'm sure Vickie has tons of insight on what appears be a Freshman English reading list, seeing as they're all British books and.. um... she's British and all. Surely that's credentials! If nothing else, she can talk about how dazzlingly skinny Nastassja Kinski looked in Roman Polanski's version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

More or less, I guess it's just kind of refreshing to see those crazy kids trying to get up to something more or less positive and productive (and also not so Scientology-related). Whatever it takes to keep a girl out of rehab, right? Precisely.

I can't help noticing that all the books whose titles are explicitly mentioned in the story were made into movies during the last ten years.

I can't help noticing that all the books whose titles are explicitly mentioned in the story were made into movies during the last ten years.

Meh, nothing wrong with them reading. Of course, if they think that they actually matter because they do, then to hell with them. And a couple of them could stand to read a damn cookbook. And I hope to God that this doesn't start another one of those unholy Oprah's Book Club-type things. But the reading itself I have no problem with.

I would never discourage boring rich people from reading. Who knows? They might actually start thinking about things other than themselves...





...Nah.

I knew this would be Austen-related when I saw the title.
Right on, ladies.

I'm just amazed that any of the members of the Spice Girls can read..

They published a set of classics-for-dummies books, like a short summary version of the story, sort of aimed at getting the story across to kids of about eleven, I guess? I found the Wuthering Heights version in the school library once. My guess would be they're reading those, not the originals.

Do they have Knickerless Knickerby ? By a Scotsman who's name eludes me ???

Darn it, wrong Posh.

EXACTLY what I was thinking.

I wonder how many of them will read the books instead of having thier publicist read it for them and provide them with some clever things to say about same.

Less juicy than the usual LAllywood fare but good for the, at least until they start to believe that since they can read they ought to be in Politics, as stars do tend to think.

I bet you she brings an L Ron Hubbard book....

It was either that, or Becks and Cruise and Posh and Katie swapping partners.

And now for some gratuitous boobie shots:

Whenever somebody objectionable is caught reading a classic, that is the first insult hurled. The idea that great novels should only be read by teenagers who can barely comprehend them is a lot dumber than Posh Spice starting a book club.

The Daily Star? As if anyone is taking the tripe they print as gospel. I wouldn't wipe my arse with it.

I really can't picture Jennifer Lopez and Katie Holmes discussing Charles Dickens, that would be an awesomely surreal sight. Although it would be cool if literacy was the new Hollywood craze, after fad diets and Scientology.

I swear to god Victoria admitted sometime last year that she'd never read a book.

I can just picure Posh explaining what a heath is to Katie for like the 100th time.

She'd have to start reading herself first:

And therein, my friends, lies the comedy.

That's what I thought, tooooo! >.<

Maybe they're reading the Coles Notes versions?

an interesting scheme for getting publicity

Agent: I just came up with a killer idea. Start a book club and invite A-list celebrities to join! That'll garner some attention.

as far as a publicity stunt goes, this at least gets my attention. when was the last time a book, that wasn't for some crazy diet, was even mentioned in that tabloid trash. perhaps the first small step of a global revolution?