From the 5:2 diet to Tiger Mothers and the furore over skivers-and-strivers, discipline has become the guiding principle that informs our lives. But is it a step too far when having Ocd and increased workloads become a badge of honour?
We have reached the end game of have-it-all culture. Because I'm Worth It has had its day, and discipline is the new decadence. The Nike Fuel Band, which tracks your calorie expenditure and praises you for an active lifestyle, has more smug-factor than a Rolex right now. The dominant meme of annoying Facebook behaviour has segued from the posting of party photos to "inspirational" quotes (American men – Henry Ford, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson – are especially hot right now). Meanwhile, the narrative of reality TV has changed: bad behaviour in the hot tub, à la early Big Brother, has been replaced, from The Voice to The Apprentice, by Saturday-night preaching...
We have reached the end game of have-it-all culture. Because I'm Worth It has had its day, and discipline is the new decadence. The Nike Fuel Band, which tracks your calorie expenditure and praises you for an active lifestyle, has more smug-factor than a Rolex right now. The dominant meme of annoying Facebook behaviour has segued from the posting of party photos to "inspirational" quotes (American men – Henry Ford, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson – are especially hot right now). Meanwhile, the narrative of reality TV has changed: bad behaviour in the hot tub, à la early Big Brother, has been replaced, from The Voice to The Apprentice, by Saturday-night preaching...
- 6/27/2013
- by Jess Cartner-Morley
- The Guardian - Film News
Film buffs can catch a glimpse of Susan Sarandon baring all next month, when a DVD version of her decades-old film The Apprentice hits shelves.
The 62-year-old stripped down for her scandalous role in the 1971 film, shot when she was 24.
A source tells the New York Post: "There is sex in the movie and Sarandon is sexy and nude. There are a few sex scenes and one involving Sarandon as a sensual Anglophone model who's a prisoner of her own sexual abandonment."...
The 62-year-old stripped down for her scandalous role in the 1971 film, shot when she was 24.
A source tells the New York Post: "There is sex in the movie and Sarandon is sexy and nude. There are a few sex scenes and one involving Sarandon as a sensual Anglophone model who's a prisoner of her own sexual abandonment."...
- 11/4/2008
- WENN
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