Glee goes barely legal - Page 2

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 7:38pm

Word^ She grosses me out.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 8:27pm

This summer I happened to find myself at the Glee concert at Radio City. It was a hell of a show. And the audience was bursting at the seams with very young teenagers, many who were young enough to be escorted by their parents. There was a personal connection that went beyond casual fandom. There was an entire row of kids behind us singing show tunes. They knew every word. This show had influence, and although troubled by some of the choices (I HATED the evil lying fake-pregnant wife), I felt like the message was still more good than bad.

[romgitsean]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 9:42pm

I think THIS is more the problem.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 9:47pm

I think it's just a real bitch slap to see this while we have a completely sanitized Rocky Horror episode next week.

[jasonf]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 9:48pm

My students watch Glee -a lot of them love it.

It's better than the kids who watch Jersey Shore!

Besides, these pics are of mid-twenties girls in GQ magazine -- most of the kids won't even SEE these pictures. Yeah, it's on the net, but if you google image search Lea Michele you get TONS of pictures of her in sexy poses/clothing, including some from Spring Awakening.

Relatively speaking, this is not THAT offensive and really not that big a deal.

[metaphorical]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 10:52pm

No, it would not be the same as if one of them took a racy role in a movie. When you do a photo spread (pun intended) in a magazine while playing an ongoing role in a tv show, many of your fans see you as still in character. When you do a movie, even if you're still doing the tv show, the movie shows you as a different character.

Another way to view it: The medium is the message. Fan/celebrity magazines are derivative of the tv shows and movies that give people their celebrity; the message of the magazine spread therefore is derivative, and inextricably tied to, the tv role as well.

[Kad]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 12:46am

The actors are free entities- they can certainly do whatever they like. They're all adults. Apparently, they can't push the boundaries too much on the show, so whatever.

[nygrl232]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 12:50am

All that come-hither posing just reduces these actresses to the same clump of whatever. Reading about that creepy photographer who keeps on victimizing and whom people just keep enabling--none of this can be good for anyone to be around. Glee seemed like a healthy entity for a short while.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 2:33am

The actors are free entities-

Ha! Doubt that. They're monkeys belonging to the Fox Corp.

[Q]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 3:12am

If it was just the actresses doing a photo shoot, it would be different. Obviously, the whole concept is playing off their show characters, who are school students. The spread is all about the sexualization of school girls for adult males. That I find offensive.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 9:25am

^^^ What he said.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 9:40am

What he said ^^^ and what she agreed with ^^^.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 10:27am

GLEE's Diana Agron has posted on her blog to apologize for those objecting to the recent racy photos of GLEE cast members in the current issue of GQ Magazine. Even Katie Couric has spoken out on the photos, her video appears below. Agron writes:

I'd like to start by saying that these are solely my thoughts on the November issue of GQ and the controversy that has surrounded its release. I am not a representative of the three of us, the show, or Fox, only myself.

In the land of Madonna, Britney, Miley, Gossip Girl, other public figures and shows that have pushed the envelope and challenged the levels of comfort in their viewers and fans...we are not the first. Now, in perpetuating the type of images that evoke these kind of emotions, I am sorry. If you are hurt or these photos make you uncomfortable, it was never our intention. And if your eight-year-old has a copy of our GQ cover in hand, again I am sorry. But I would have to ask, how on earth did it get there?

I was a very sheltered child, and was not aware of anything provocative or risque in the media while I was navigating through my formative years. When I was finally allowed to watch a movie like Grease, I did not even understand what on earth Rizzo was talking about!? I understand that in today's world of advanced technology, the internet, our kids can be subject to very adult material at the click of a button. But there are parental locks, and ways to get around this. I am twenty-four years old. I have been a pretty tame and easy-going girl my whole life. Nobody is perfect, and these photos do not represent who I am. I am also not the girl who rolls out of bed with flawless makeup and couture clothing. I am most comfortable with my hair thrown on top of my head, in sweats, laughing with my friends. Glee is a show that represents the underdogs, which is a feeling I have embraced much of my own life, and to those viewers, the photos in GQ don't give them that same feeling. I understand completely.

For GQ, they asked us to play very heightened versions of our school characters. A ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time' version. At the time, it wasn't my favorite idea, but I did not walk away. I must say, I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can't erase the strokes you've made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate. I'm moving forward from this one, and after today, putting it to rest. I am only myself, I can only be me. These aren't photos I am going to frame and put on my desk, but hey, nor are any of the photos I take for magazines. Those are all characters we've played for this crazy job, one that I love and am so fortunate to have, each and every day. If you asked me for my dream photo shoot, I'd be in a treehouse, in a wild costume, war-paint and I'd be playing with my pet dragon. Until then.....



Read more: https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/GLEEs_Agron_Apologizes_for_Racy_GQ_Photos_20010101#ixzz130HPLIIr

[shameless]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 10:36am

"If you asked me for my dream photo shoot, I'd be in a treehouse, in a wild costume, war-paint and I'd be playing with my pet dragon. Until then....."

Now, I think that is much more interesting photo shoot.

I like this woman!

[Q]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 11:19am

I’m not overly concerned about kids being exposed to this – I think that’s the parent’s responsibility and concern.

From Madison Avenue to Valley pornographers, there have been those who try to capitalize on the sexualization of youth, but they usually provide themselves an ‘out’ – some way to say, “They’re not really minors.” The use of these actresses, referencing their current roles and being placed in an obvious school environment, removes that ‘out’. I see it as nothing but pandering to an adult male fantasy of nailing a nubile young school girl.

At best, I find it distasteful. I think it was a gross misstep on the part of all those involved in the decision and execution.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 12:15pm

I have no problem with adults bein' all sexy an' sh*t, but it would be nice to see someone have the discretion to be sexy without taking it to pornland.

I mean Lea Michele's mouth position is straight out of the 1990's porno queen's playbook.

And the fact that GQ recruited a photographer with a yen for the "teen sex" angle (and a history of sexual harassment) is all the more distasteful.

Whatever. It's out there. It'll sell copies for a magazine hardly anyone reads anymore. And I guess that's all that matters.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 12:40pm

The spread is all about the sexualization of school girls for adult males. That I find offensive.

But this is just one of many panders the Glee machine has done. I don't get why this is the one that makes people apoplectic.

I don't get why anyone on this show is even considered a role model to begin with.

And it was in GQ! I like Diana's point about why does your 8 year old have it in the first place, but I don't like her backpedaling "sorry if you're offended" stuff. Own it or don't.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 12:44pm

If you took out all the pictures that pandered to adult males who want to nail nubile young school girls (and school boys) GQ would be 4 pages.

I wish Diana would have said "If you don't like it, you can bite my perfect 24 year old butt."

[JudasIscariot]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 12:59pm

To be honest, as a 20 year old straight guy, I think that the pictures are pretty dang hot. Diana is smoking.

[uncageg]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 1:18pm

Well they have already had two girls necking in bed so this isn't surprising. But to have that happen and then this spread to come out, I don't understand why they had to "clean up" the lyrics to the Rocky Horror songs. Maybe this is the networks doing?

And I agree, they work for Fox. They are kind of under their thumb. Sherrie, on The View, shared a story about an actress she worked with that was 35 but was playing a teen. The network would not allow her to drink in public because she would tarnish the image of the character she was playing. That story ringa a bell but for the life of me I can't remember who the actress was.

[Q]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 1:22pm

"all the pictures that pandered to adult males who want to nail nubile young school girls (and school boys)"

I don't see any others that put them squarely within a high school context. Can some be interpreted that way? Sure, but there's always the possibility that they aren't - the 'out' factor. These don't have that, so they're different to my eye.

And I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not arguing any kind of role model issue. The specific of their characters only matters to my mind because it places them unequivocally in a school context.

And who's apoplectic? Disagreement doesn't equate to frothing at the mouth.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 1:36pm

I was referring mostly to the article itself.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 1:46pm

Not really shocked to hear the photographer of the photo shoot was Terry Richardson. Look him up, dude's a skeez. This photo shoot only confirmed what I already know, they're all hot and Richardson's a creep. The End.

It seems in every generation of young television actors there's always an incident that causes a schism between their real selves and on-screen persona, which ruffles the feathers of parents groups and such.

[p.s.]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 2:35pm

Has Glee jumped the shark?

p.s.

And why is Cory Monteith fully clothed, and groping them?

Snagged by a Finn





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[Plum]

Posted: 10/22/10 at 12:27am

Not really shocked to hear the photographer of the photo shoot was Terry Richardson. Look him up, dude's a skeez.

I'm glad somebody pointed this out. Richardson isn't just a "skeeze"; he regularly takes advantage of his position of power over young and unknown models to sexually harass and assault them. He wouldn't do that with the Glee cast, of course; they're too famous. But he always takes the exact same "shocking" photos no matter who his subject is. It has all the artistry of someone with their dong hanging out in ChatRoulette.