J. Richard Singleton's Blog
November 19, 2019
Exclusive: The Mysterious Age of Anjelica Bette Fellini
Credit: Backstage.comShe was the cute girl on "The Gifted," playing the young teen mutant Twist. Then last summer she signed on to star on a show with the unfortunate title "Slutty Teenage Bounty Hunters," then I said, "Wait a minute. A 14-year-old actress should not be in a show about teenage sexuality." For both legal reasons and creative reasons, teens in media are typically played by actors several years older. I Googled her age. Said she's 14. Couldn't believe she was 13 when "The Gifted" was filming; she was...tall. If she was 13, I had some things to think about.
Then I checked out her Instagram page, and there were several photos of her hanging out with her boyfriend, who's clearly in his 20s. I at first thought that she had very bad parents. Then I did some deeper Googling.
According to an article in Playbill, she was 11 in December of 2005. (http://www.playbill.com/article/pint-...). Her Backstage page (https://www.backstage.com/u/anjelicab...) lists her age range as 18-29, which is very unusual for a 14-year-old girl.
For some reason, Google thinks that she was born in 2004. Maybe she has been perpetuating the story that she is almost a decade younger as a way of securing more teen girl roles. She also never tagged her boyfriend, adding credibility that she's concealing her true age or her boyfriend is a sex offender.
But she was probably born in 1994, December 1993 at the earliest. And she's about 25 today.
"Looks like this story has taken a...twist," I said, and I put on my sunglasses.
July 10, 2019
You expect this at Magic Mountain! Not Disneyland!
You have to love the 911 operator who would have to take the report about the violence "outside Goofy's house."
May 28, 2019
March 13, 2019
"Have mercy!"...is what Lori Loughlin will tell the judge.
You rarely see such moments of insta-karma as the results of "Operation Varsity Blues." When the chips were down, these limousine liberals would do exactly what wealthy conservatives would do to secure a better future for their children: cheat; take out their checkbooks, and write a check to somebody to fix their children's mental or emotional shortcomings. They believed their kids were great, but they didn't or couldn't force them to pursue their excellence in their teen years. The other children were just that much better, and they freaked out at the last minute and began grasping for a way to for their kids to avoid the indignity of a community college.
When I was a boy, my elementary school went on a campus visit to LA Trade Tech. USC was across the street. It was the only school-sanctioned campus visit that I would go on in my childhood. I might be critical of trade schools, but my issue with them is how elitist that they are: Despite his extolling of their qualities, former President Barack Obama's daughters wouldn't be going to trade schools.
The game is already rigged (in favor of star athletes, legacies, the children of big donors), and these people probably thought they were just being a part of the larger corruption. It is legal for a child with learning disabilities to get more time on the SATs. But as well as using the term "ruh-roh" Scooby Doo-style in her email correspondence amongst her fellow conspirators, Huffman allegedly was having a proctor "correct" her eldest daughter's answers. (Those tests are culturally biased...in favor of people in her culture.) Loughlin supposedly had her two daughters recruited as USC female crew (rowing). There's no evidence that either girl has ever rowed. One of the ringleaders was allegedly photoshopping client's faces onto real athletes' bodies. This is getting ridiculous and comical. This will be the premise of a series of movies over the next couple years.
It's interesting that mothers got ensnarled by this and what this says about the accuracy of gender stereotyping. Their husbands were busy working, on the periphery of their kids' lives. Loughlin and Huffman were the drivers here. Whatever the truth might be, Huffman will probably fall on the sword for her family.
These folks were so coarse that they were writing checks to get their kids in while seeking a way to get their money back as a tax deduction. The bribery was just not large enough not to be considered bribery. Now they're fucked.
Olivia Jade might be a perfectly nice young woman, but she recently posted a vlog declaring her desire to go to USC for partying, not for scholastics or even to expand her horizons. Those were her words--words that she had to clarify in a later vlog. The irony is that she was already an entertainer and didn't even need to go to college; it was something her parents expected of her. Olivia Jade will probably now lose more money when she loses her sponsorships than she would've made with any degree that she could realistically earn from USC. Thanks, mom.
The middle-class schlubs who ran this scheme are going to prison for awhile. The desperate housewives, lacking priors, will get fines, community service, probation. These allegations are not sexual or even violent. This scandal will be a dark spot in their various Hollywood memoirs.
When I was a boy, my elementary school went on a campus visit to LA Trade Tech. USC was across the street. It was the only school-sanctioned campus visit that I would go on in my childhood. I might be critical of trade schools, but my issue with them is how elitist that they are: Despite his extolling of their qualities, former President Barack Obama's daughters wouldn't be going to trade schools.
The game is already rigged (in favor of star athletes, legacies, the children of big donors), and these people probably thought they were just being a part of the larger corruption. It is legal for a child with learning disabilities to get more time on the SATs. But as well as using the term "ruh-roh" Scooby Doo-style in her email correspondence amongst her fellow conspirators, Huffman allegedly was having a proctor "correct" her eldest daughter's answers. (Those tests are culturally biased...in favor of people in her culture.) Loughlin supposedly had her two daughters recruited as USC female crew (rowing). There's no evidence that either girl has ever rowed. One of the ringleaders was allegedly photoshopping client's faces onto real athletes' bodies. This is getting ridiculous and comical. This will be the premise of a series of movies over the next couple years.
It's interesting that mothers got ensnarled by this and what this says about the accuracy of gender stereotyping. Their husbands were busy working, on the periphery of their kids' lives. Loughlin and Huffman were the drivers here. Whatever the truth might be, Huffman will probably fall on the sword for her family.
These folks were so coarse that they were writing checks to get their kids in while seeking a way to get their money back as a tax deduction. The bribery was just not large enough not to be considered bribery. Now they're fucked.
Olivia Jade might be a perfectly nice young woman, but she recently posted a vlog declaring her desire to go to USC for partying, not for scholastics or even to expand her horizons. Those were her words--words that she had to clarify in a later vlog. The irony is that she was already an entertainer and didn't even need to go to college; it was something her parents expected of her. Olivia Jade will probably now lose more money when she loses her sponsorships than she would've made with any degree that she could realistically earn from USC. Thanks, mom.
The middle-class schlubs who ran this scheme are going to prison for awhile. The desperate housewives, lacking priors, will get fines, community service, probation. These allegations are not sexual or even violent. This scandal will be a dark spot in their various Hollywood memoirs.
February 5, 2019
January 29, 2019
January 26, 2019
October 26, 2018
We should all judge Megyn Kelly, but let's also remember...
THIS happened recently. THIS wasn't even too long ago. It was the 1980s.October 25, 2018
This cat flips a coin to decide whether it's going to kil...
This cat flips a coin to decide whether it's going to kill a mouse...August 20, 2018
So did you get your Tesla yet? Stil waiting, eh?
Anyone else think Elon Musk has been behaving erratically in a non-inspirational way? He's not being a disruptor so much as being weird, and now we don't like him.
Most of his fanciful ideas have not and possibly cannot be fulfilled. He offered a one-person sub to rescue those Thai boys, but it was unworkable because it was known to everyone else working on the problem on the ground that the water clogged path was too twisty and tight for a craft to navigate--this is an example of Musk's unrestrained optimism in technology but also the fact that no one in his company bothered to measure the damn thing before sending it over. He was trying to exploit a tragedy to call attention to how great his company is.
His conference calls, his rumors that triggered an SEC investigation, his man-crying, his Twitter feud with a diver who tried to save those Thai kids.... He seems to be unraveling like Charlie Sheen minus the sordid sexual history.
Most of his fanciful ideas have not and possibly cannot be fulfilled. He offered a one-person sub to rescue those Thai boys, but it was unworkable because it was known to everyone else working on the problem on the ground that the water clogged path was too twisty and tight for a craft to navigate--this is an example of Musk's unrestrained optimism in technology but also the fact that no one in his company bothered to measure the damn thing before sending it over. He was trying to exploit a tragedy to call attention to how great his company is.
His conference calls, his rumors that triggered an SEC investigation, his man-crying, his Twitter feud with a diver who tried to save those Thai kids.... He seems to be unraveling like Charlie Sheen minus the sordid sexual history.
