Perspective: Kidult Korner ; Ever in Tune with Popular Culture, Sid Langley Ponders a World Beyond Celebrity, Beyond the Jungle, Almost Beyond Belief

Summary

---

I don't much want to think about Hollyoaks. Not now Kerry McFadden has been crowned Queen of the Jungle. I call her that after mature consideration. I am thinking, you see, of another not-too- bright blonde who wanted to be Queen of our Hearts. She was also the recipient of a huge groundswell of mindless and, to my way of thinking, depressing popular affection. But she, too, was also obviously not a proper grown-up, displaying child-like (even childish) emotions and reactions to the admittedly dreadful situations she found herself in.

But, boy, doesn't the Great British Public love its vulnerable little girls.

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

Perspective: Kidult Korner ; Ever in Tune with Popular Culture, Sid Langley Ponders a World Beyond Celebrity, Beyond the Jungle, Almost Beyond Belief

You see it in the kind of reproductions that are bought in gazillions to hang on walls throughout the land -pre-pubescent children with tears brimming in the corners of eyes grotesquely enlarged to the size of dinner plates.

It's a modern-day, dumbed-down, cartoonised version of those Victorian paintings of waifs look...

See the full content of this document

---