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Bruce and Demi's little girl is Miss Golden Globe 2009. Will she turn out to be successful like her predecessors, Anne Archer, Melanie Griffith, and Laura Dern? Or will her career die hard?
Of all the fun and froth that comes with Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards—the first red carpet of the season, the on-camera drinking, the saucy mix of TV upstarts and movie stars—my favorite tradition is Miss Golden Globe, whose sole job is to schlep back and forth across the stage with trophies for the winners.
Nice work if you can get it. And you and I can’t. We don’t have movie-star parents.
Click image to view gallery of Miss Golden Globe presenters through the years, from 1963 to 2006.
Anyone who has brayed with indignation over Caroline Kennedy will no doubt feel similarly outraged over Miss Golden Globe. After all, it is a holdover from decades ago, when children of Hollywood royalty would step forward to serve the industry that had made their parents famous, and presumably take a first step at getting there themselves. Sometimes the promise of their birthright paid off (hello Anne Archer, Laura Dern, and Joely Fisher, Miss Golden Globe 1971, ’82, and ’92, respectively) and sometimes it wouldn’t (sorry, Lisabeth Shatner and Lily Costner, thanks for playing).
Rumer Willis, this year’s Miss Double G, is a double legacy, the offspring of two Hollywood superstars: Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. But her ascension could threaten to topple the noble institution of Miss Golden Globe as we know it.
Why? Because we already know who she is. Who among us can’t recall pictures of the Willis girls in Us and People as the Demi-Ashton romance unfolded? We’ve watched Rumer grow up into someone who, in another lifetime, would be old enough to date her stepfather (don’t worry, Tallulah and Scout, Wilmer Valderrama is still available!). And unlike previous Miss Double Gs (and a few Mr. Double Gs), Rumer already has a legitimate career—and that’s not even not counting her cameos in dad’s The Whole Nine Yards and mom’s Now and Then. She appeared in several movies in 2008—including The House Bunny, which I sort of can’t help wanting to see—and has three more coming out in 2009. She’s BFF with Lindsay Lohan, Hayden Panettiere, and the cast of Gossip Girl. She’s dating a model. It’s amazing she could even fit Miss Golden Globe into her schedule.
Twice, actually—Rumer was supposed to be Miss Double G last year, before the writers’ strike hijacked the event and turned it into a sad freakshow of missed opportunity dominated by Access Hollywood hosts. A year ago it truly would have been Rumer’s coming out party—she was still basically most notable for appearing as herself in VH1’s Awesomely Wacky Celebrity Baby Names. But somewhere between strike beards and the 44th president, our little Rumer ceased to be a demi-celeb—get it? Demi? Oh, come on, at least I didn’t make a “golden globes” joke—and grew up.
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Is this some kind of joke? Rumor looks like Mr PotatoHead, and her "superstar" parents' careers have been in the toilet for years. Why does TDB insist on article after article about "stars" that are nothing more than manufactured celebrities with NOTHING going for them? As for being Miss GG, I hope that Rumor holds onto the memory for a long time to come, since she will most likely be in rehab (or robbing video stores) in the near future.
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And yes, that's actually true.
Really bad article.
The truth is, this is yet another clever way the HFPA sucks up to celebrities. Although if they had their druthers, the group would probably anoint Sharon Stone as the permanent Miss Double G.
Judging from the photo gallery, the consistent theme is that Miss GG has to be (with a couple of exceptions) a bowser!
I agree with swampie AND mchlm1. I have always been particularly amazed at any interest in Rumer. She is a scary homely young lady who should probably be advised to pursue an education instead of any in-front-of-camera career!
"We've watched Rumer grow up..."
--- Who the hell is "we."
"Will Rumer's career resemble her parents'-or will it Die Hard? Like a Ghost?"
--- Rumer has it the author isn't humorous.
Are you stealing Sinbad's material?
This article looks like a perfect example of a myopic self important Hollywood "insider" story that the rest of America could give a rat's ass about.
"We've watched Rumer grow up..."
Spare us.
What ... no "juicy" stuff on Tori Spelling you could bore us with.
You forgot to mention all the people like me who will tune in just to see Rumer's head.
"Anyone who has brayed with indignation over Caroline Kennedy ..."
How incredibly rude for Sklar and TDB to compare people who oppose Kennedy's appointment to donkeys.
We'll remember this slur the next time Sklar decides to share her opinions.
Poor Rumer, she has a face like a horse. She's so lantern jawed that to describe her as anything other than "plain" is extremely generous or delusional.
Why those who are bored enough to actually tune into the Globes have to be subjected to this no talent is a mystery unless one considers that it is punishment for not tuning into the networks for the rest of the year.
poor girl, that is one fugly mug (are we completely sure she is a girl?)
Wow. That was 2 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Ms. Sklar, did you have anything you wanted to say?
epic fail
Does anyone have anytihng nice to say on the TDB blogs?
I tend to agree with the author here. As in any industry, people should make the grade based on their own merit. Who cares who your parents are? If you have the goods, then you have the job. But nepotism runs big almost everywhere. (I live in Boston. You can't collect tolls for a living unless you know someone in the big leagues. But then toll takers make $60 an hour here. We'd ALL take that job.)
Nowhere is nepotism more prevalent than in Hollywood (toll takers aside). It's like a big club where they don't REALLY want to let anyone in to reap in the big rewards (and they are BIG) unless you're already part of the fam. It's the biggest blue blood club without the blue. Have we forgotten Tori Spelling and Kate Hudson?
Whenever they can, Hollywood passes fame down like the family china. Sofia Copolla? It's all the same. Paris Hilton wouldn't be Paris without the Hilton. And they'll keep doing it until you stop buying the tickets for their kid's shows......
Who the hell wrote this - her P.R. person?
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