Shoddy, sloppy journalism

This kind of story infuriates me. The headline is "Winslet: I'm confusing DiCaprio with my husband" - the kind of thing I usually ignore because it's so dumb, but because I like Kate Winslet quite a lot (she was hilarious in Extras and v. touching when she won two Golden Globes last week) I wanted to see what she actually said. And what she actually said is "feels more like my husband than my real husband, I have to say. I'm talking about him so much!"

That's completely different from confusing him with her husband.

Years ago, way back when I only had one child, so at least twenty years ago, I played Mrs. Frederick Douglass. Our final scene was his death on New Year's, where he came home from a suffragettes meeting and died in my arms. The gentleman who played Mr. Douglass was a favorite actor of mine and the whole experience was fantastic. So fantastic that whenever anyone mentions Frederick Douglass my first thought is, oh yes, my poor dear husband who died so tragically and suddenly. And I'm perfectly aware that he wasn't really, and that he never really died in my arms. It's part of my acting method to do a lot of research on the other characters in any part and spend a lot of time thinking about our lives together.

At no time have I ever confused Mr. Douglass with my actual ex-husband. That would be ridiculous.

Badly done, author of the article, badly done.

Let's punish the children for the parent's natural reaction

I happened to come into a game room right in the middle of an intense chat session between several people. I read one thing and closed chat out because it annoyed me so very, very much.

One of the users was talking about a "beautiful, moving story" about a little girl who was up in heaven and couldn't have her wings until her family stopped crying about her "leaving."

How foul is that? It's wrong on so many levels. Do these people stop to think about the ramifications of these little stories?

In other news everyone is writing or performing today. Cullen is working on college essays, I wrote my column and another five hundred words for the new novel while Cam had a dance recital; his first. Yesterday he had an audition for some sort of in school American idol like show and he was picked to compete so that's pretty neat.

Chris ran back up to New York to babysit and will be back late tonight and staying through the weekend.