Sooner or later someone has to ask this

[fpb]

Why is it that every teen-age starlet turned out by Walt Disney turns out, as soon as she turns 16 (or even sooner) to be a committed public tart?

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[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, no argument there. I see what you mean by pedophile--not that they are molesting the minor in question, but setting them into a position so they can be lusted after while they are raking in the cash.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

No, I mean exactly what the word says. In Italy a few years ago, the legendary entertainer and radio and tv producer Gianni Boncompagni, who had dominated the listings since I was a child, was convicted and jailed for dozens of counts of indecency with minors. His defence was, quoting from memory: "If you run a popular TV variety shows featuring teen-aged dancers, you will be besieged by literally thousands of mothers and their girls, most of them very attractive, and literally every one of them more than ready to prostitute both her daughter and herself for the chance of appearing in prime-time TV. You would have to be a saint to resist the temptation."

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Yes, one of the reasons why I stopped working in Hollywood was when I got pregnant, and I realized I didn't want to raise my kid in that environment. I used to pass by the casting office on cattle call days, and the room would be filled with hard-eyed women and their five year old daughters squeezed into tight jeans, with spangly tight tops, their eyebrows plucked, lips smeared with glitzy goo, finger and toenails scarlet (or green or black), hair frizzled out into Marie Antoinette elaboration. Variations on "sit still!" would hiss venomously as the poor children tried to move about a little in their boredom.