I know virtually nothing about Olivia Wilde, other than the fact that she chose her stage name based on one of her favorite writers, Oscar Wilde. (I don't know why I remember reading that in an interview years ago.) But I do know I like what she has to say about celebrity culture in the current issue of Marie Claire: “I’d like to refocus everyone’s attention away from the Kardashians and onto Doctors Without Borders or aid workers," the star says in the August issue of Marie Claire. "Let’s redefine scandal. Scandal is not who so-and-so is dating; scandal is the fact that 1.2 million people are still living in tents in Haiti, and cholera is rampant because Nepalese U.N. soldiers dumped s-it from their Porta-Potties into the river. That’s a f-cking scandal. If the average 15-year-old was hearing about that instead of so-and-so’s plastic surgery or cheating in Hollywood, I’d feel better about our future.”
I heard about this so-called "dis" (are we still using that word?) of the Kardashians -- whose collective fame and inexplicable wealth drive me batty -- while watching "Access Hollywood" the other night. (Full disclosure: I watch NBC Nightly News whenever I remember to turn it on, and I'd left the TV on while cooking dinner. And, okay, I didn't lunge for the remote to turn it off when this show started.) They reported on this story and even interviewed Wilde and let her explain herself further. Then they cut back to host Billy Bush in studio, who rambles something about how important those causes are, then drops the teaser about the next story, "Coming up, what starlet chopped off all her hair?!" Dude's gotta earn a living, right?
Well, at least they gave her a chance to further drive home her point.
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