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Why do we make women lie?

Inside Television 576
Publication Date: 10-28-11
By: Hubert O’Hearn

Why Women are Forced to Lie

Let me ask you something. Have you ever lied about your age? Answer that question honestly to yourself. Maybe you were the tall kid who was sent into the beer store at age 17 with enough flop sweat pouring down your face to water a golf course. Or maybe in a dateless and desperate time (there actually once was, briefly,  a game show called Dateless and Desperate) you snipped just a little off the top and sides of the old birth year while filling in that on-line profile.

Now here’s the tougher question. If you answered yes to the first - Why? Really now, why would you do that, other than to get beer or enlist early so you could go and kill Hitler? For any social reason, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. You are you. You’re stuck with you. You can neither have more memories and experiences than what you’ve had, or less of either. You are the mental and physical composite of all that you have done or has been done to you.

And yet, millions of people allow a number to determine their worth. Birthdays are accompanied by quite specific sounds. At 5, it’s the high-pitched vibrating fart of a blow tickler. at 20, it’s the pop and fizz of a first bottle of decent champagne. At 40 it’s the beep beep beep of a dump truck backing into your driveway waiting to haul you off to the landfill along with three dented hubcaps, two priceless comic books your Mom accidentally tossed out, and a CD of Rick Astley’s Greatest Hit. Yes indeed, you are now a package of meat with a $2.00 Off coupon slapped across your face. And I do mean slapped.

I hope you’ve had a decent chuckle or two so far. Our duty here is to entertain as well as inform. There is however a quite serious point to all this. For you, hitting 40 means that the 22 year olds no longer find you attractive. (Guess what? They weren’t all hot and bothered when you were 26 either. Sorry to break it to you like this in public.) For women, particularly women who are actresses, 40 is the date of execution for their careers.

Perhaps you think I’m exaggerating. Fair enough; I’ve been known to pucker up to Blarney once or twice in my life. So let’s do a quick test. Think about movies and TV. How many women can you think of with current leading or major supporting roles who are in their 20s and 30s? Don’t start writing them down, we haven’t got all day here. Now how many can you name of similar working status over the age of 40? Besides Helen Mirren. Okay, besides Helen Mirren and Judi Dench. Besides Helen Mirren, Judi Dench , Meryl Streep and that other one. You know who I mean. She was in the thing that was out last year. You know. That show. we all watched it. everybody loved it until it was canceled. How old’s Kate Winslet now? (She’s 36. the clock is ticking.)

There is a lawsuit working its way through the courts in the U.S. right now. Several actresses have banded together to file a  class action suit against the Google-owned imdb.com - the Internet Movie Database. They each had individually requested that imdb not list their dates of birth because being known as plus 40 in age (although curiously not in breast size) meant that the work dried up.

To get the real inside story I asked my friend Lydia Cornell for her take on the subject. The former star of Too Close for Comfort,  Curb Your Enthusiasm and several new films is the perfect industry informant and friend: honest, smart, funny and willing to be quoted. Her sharp and witty blog can be found at http://LydiaCornell.com .

So what is the truth about over-40 actresses Lydia? "George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer are the same age, but on magazine covers, HE gets to have crows' feet and gray hair while she has every line air-brushed out of her face. And she's still not working.” Ouch.

George Clooney...literally acting his age

Let me toss some names at you of some very beautiful, very talented women: Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Terri Garr, Theresa Russell, Debra Winger. There’s five off the top of my head. Now you tell me when the last time was you saw any of them on a big or small screen.

Much more to be said on this subject on another day. For now though the prosecution rests, even if the persecution continues. Be seeing you.

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Occupy Part 5: What the Movement can Learn from Mao Zedong

Politics for Joe
October 23, 2011
By: Hubert O’Hearn
For: Lake Superior News

The Occupy Movement Part 5:

What The Movement Can Learn from Mao Zedong

If you give me credit for nothing else (which would be a shrewd decision on your part), you have to admit that’s a pretty catchy headline. Oh it’s intentionally misleading with only a  kernel or truth to it, but it got you reading this far, so it therefore has proven the utility of its existence. I do admit to a certain pleasurable fantasy of Twitter or Facebook or Reddit readers running across the eight words above and yelling out, “I told you Margaret! Them Occupiers is a bunch of commies!” (pause) “Where’s our little red books from back when we was students?”

Let’s leave the amusing sitcom fantasies aside however, and deal with the reality of the Occupy Movement. It’s doing quite nicely as of this writing. The tent villages are still intact; the police attacks seem to have eased back, and Occupy has passed from ‘ignorable novelty news item’ to a seemingly fixed demographic on the political map. I know that this is deniable, and any Pentagon spokesman or White House Press Secretary would react in shock worthy of Claude Rains if faced with the hypothesis, but I would be willing to bet large and give good odds that the American pull-out of all troops from Iraq by the end of the year is a direct reaction by Barack Obama to Occupy.

Make no mistake, Occupy is pretty much as pissed off with the Democrats as it is the Republicans. This is the fascinating overlap with the Tea Party in terms of attitude and a sense that the System, the grand old military-industrial complex Eisenhower defined and warned against near the end of his Presidency, is both broke and broken. The Tea Party/Occupy is composed of nominal Republicans/Democrats who think the mainstream of their party is spineless and corrupt.

So Obama has had to give them something. He couldn’t give Occupy financial reform even if he wanted to, which I’m not so sure he does. He thinks he needs the Wall Street money for his re-election - he actually doesn’t, by the way. If Barack Obama stood up tomorrow and announced that the amount of money spent on elections was an absolute corrupting vulgarity. He therefore states for the record that his campaign, starting tomorrow, will not air a single paid TV commercial or billboard. The campaign will disperse to charity all funds already raised in excess of normal operations: offices where people can gather and talk about solutions. He, Barack Obama would otherwise trust the much-maligned media to do an honest and balanced job of reporting his positions to the American people.

He would sweep to an FDR-size landslide re-election.

FDR with advice for Obama...

Of course he won’t do that. That would require a willing acceptance of risk and if there is one thing we have learned about Obama is is that Hilary Clinton was right. He talks a very good game but he is conservative almost to the point of paralysis.

So give the people Iraq. It will save the Treasury a hell of a lot of money. My only surprise is that Afghanistan didn’t go first, unless Afghanistan is being strengthened to keep troops in the region close to Pakistan and Iran. We have not seen the end of regional wars - they may just be shifting their battlegrounds to the East.

All of which puts Occupy in the U.S. in a very interesting position. I will talk about Canada in a moment, but as always, American politics are for grown-ups. As well, this may be the last time America will ever actually lead on a political movement. Watching the U.S. in 2011 must be how it felt to watch Britain in 1946. The song is over, but nobody’s told the singer.

I think Occupy may be about to make a massive mistake. I’m not sure of this - it’s a 55/45 proposition to me. So I’ll put my arguments out and let you make your own mind up.

It seems that there is a convention being planned for, in effect, the first Occupy Plenary Sessions in July of 2012. It will of course be democratically pure. Each individual Occupy group would send one delegate to put together a platform and/or list of demands that would be put forward to each candidate. A full endorsement of Occupy’s policy by the candidate would be required to receive Occupy’s endorsement of the candidate.

Here are my two problems with that idea. One, politicians lie. Two, it’s boring. If it is one thing of many that Occupy does, I have no problem with it. Every trade association, professional association, labour union, right-to life, pro-choice, etc. etc. group already does candidate surveys, which ultimately is what we’re talking about.

No, that would be a trap. It would prove divisive and would make Occupy too inward-looking rather than engaging in a conversation with the greater community. Occupy needs to communicate. It needs to engage. It needs to us its most charming quality - that it listens politely yet speaks firmly - to educate.

So this is why I mentioned Mao Zedong. This must be seen as a Long March in order to succeed. Retreat in order to advance. Accumulate a great enough force then the victory, when it comes, will be swift. Occupy must not make its focus the 2012 elections. They will prove important, but they are not the entire game either.

Here is where Canada and all the other countries with Occupy chapters come in. Build from the ground. Retail politics. Congressmen, Senators, MP’s in Canada or the UK, who happen to really get on board with Occupy are great, but view them as a bonus. Instead, get Occupy members elected onto school boards, town councils, credit union boards, union locals - the true grass roots.

In that way, if the Democrats cannot be reformed - or in Canada the NDP or Greens strengthened - if the situation is such that Occupy needs to rise as  a Social Democratic Party - then it will have actual practiced candidates to take forward to higher levels. Build the team, then take Capitol Hill or Parliament Hill.

This is nominally the end of my Occupy Series. My intention however is to keep writing about it. I haven’t yet got to the interviews I have lined up. So look for more. And please, please feel free to forward to me your thoughts, comments and questions. I’[ll get to them.

Be seeing you.

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Occupy: Imagine Power to the People

Politics for Joe
October 17, 2011
By: Hubert O’Hearn
For: Lake Superior News

Occupy Part 4: Imagine Power to the People


When I was directing live theatre, which I did for the better part of a decade after swearing off politics (and believe me, there was a fair bit of swearing involved), what I would wait for is the ‘Aha! Moment’. You could see it physically happen to an actor. It was in their eyes, their body, and their voice. Suddenly the play and the character stopped being objective things that were being learnt by rote and embodied by a series of repeated moves and vocal inflections. Instead, the experience burst into the subjective. A life was being explored on-stage. If you could bottle that electric charge, that moment, you’d make billions.

I had my Aha! Moment regarding the Occupy Movement in the wee small hours last night. A friend of mine, Tammy Lee Marche, a professional communications consultant based out of London Ontario, attended the Occupy Toronto event on October 15. Tammy’s an all-around good egg who has dedicated her business, BullMarket Consulting Limited, to building community consensus that will advance the cause of the disadvantaged: unemployed youth, Aboriginals, and Women’s Health in particular. Anyway, Tammy wrote a short blog entry on her website (http://tammyleemarche.com/) explaining why she marched in the Occupy Toronto protest. I invite you to read it. Trust me, it won’t take long. I quote the second paragraph:

I believe that over the last 15 years, a consciousness evolution has taken place very rapidly on earth, and as a result, we are in the midst of a consciousness revolution, a revolution that no longer depends on the mind or logic for answers to our global, national, local and individual problems.  It is a movement that relies on the heart of the people and the collective heart for answers.

That and the rest of her posting changed the way I view Occupy. As should be shriekingly obvious to anyone who has been reading either this series or much of my recent newspaper work, I not only support Occupy, I want to hug it and give it a tender kiss. I now know what the Movement is, what it can be, and these remaining columns can now take on amuch more specific (and I hope helpful) focus. Curious? Read on.

What are the principal criticisms of Occupy as blathered and burped by pundits and politicians on Big Media? A list:

• Occupy has no agenda.
• Occupy is unfocused
• Occupy is leaderless
• Occupy mistrusts politics
• Occupy has no ‘go forward’ strategy

A short response to all of the above:

• Good
• Better
• Thank God
• Wouldn’t you?
• Wait for it

I had been trying to put my finger on what the Occupy Movement actually Is. Analysis by myself and others, in both Big Media and limited reach commentators has been - for want of a better word - Vulcan in nature. What are the specific demands and what are the specific policies demanded and what is the inner logic driving these events?

But these are not Vulcan events. They are human - emotional and instinctive. There is a sense that Things are Not Going Well; an impending sense of doom similar to villagers seeing the long-dormant volcano start to smoulder, or the big grey line of a Tsunamai appear on the ocean’s horizon. And what do people do when those sorts of natural disasters announce themselves? They do two things: they run like hell in the same direction, then huddle together for comfort and mutual support.

Maybe these ARE Vulcan events...

That is the Occupy Movement. That is why it seems so spontaneous. That is why it has spread so quickly across cities, nations and continents.

The world is either broken or is breaking. Its peoples have seen the reports and have felt the personal effects of climate change, a financial system kept together with chewing gum and bailing wire, famine in a time of great wealth, the depletion of easily available carbon energy, health care systems that cover the wealthy but not the poor, unemployment, under-employment, the trampling of organized labour, outsourcing of jobs, and the dominance of money in democratic politics. That’s just a start.

Samuel Johnson said of the guillotine, ‘It concentrates the mind wonderfully.’ One can think of little else when the moment comes than the guillotine, volcano or tidal wave. The only exceptional quality of the guillotine is that executions happen one at a time (although give Texas half a chance...) whereas natural disasters or the world disaster just described happen to lots and lots of people at once.

And thank heavens for it. This has created the run like hell/huddle together response in all these parks, streets and civic squares.

Now here’s the nut, the Aha! Moment.

It’s not about reform.

It’s not about tweaking, modifying or legislating. Incremental change has been tried, abandoned, and tried again; yet the world remains broken. It becomes that classic definition if insanity: doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.

Instead, Occupy is about form, not reform.

It is about instinct, not logic.

It is about - yes- Imagine.

The collective memory of John Lennon’s solo work is dominated by Imagine. Rightly so, I guess. It is a beautiful song that calms the soul and releases the mind into dreams of what could be. I suggest to you that the ‘B side’ for October 2011 should be another of Lennon’s solo songs - his rabble rousing ‘Power to the People’. See


This is why Occupy sometimes seems amoeba-like and formless. It is the world’s biggest focus group that has come together (another good Lennon song) to imagine the world it would like to see.

What should an ideal banking system look like?
Where should energy in the future come from?
What do we want our lives to feel like?

I said to a friend the other day, half in jest, that the 1% or as I prefer to term it, The Power should just offer all the Occupiers a huge tract of land like Madagascar and let us just go about our business of creating a nation that would be sustainable and address needs before wants. A new and secular Israel, is you will. Now that still wouldn’t work, because climate change in particular knows no national boundaries. Instead, the job of the Occupiers is to create a new world. From scratch. From heart. From love. From feelings and all those messy human emotions.

Just imagine power to the people. Power to the people? Right on.

Be seeing you.

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Occupy: Hot Chicks and The Empire Strikes Back

Politics for Joe
October 15, 2011
By: Hubert O’Hearn
For: Lake Superior News

Equally to my delight and relief, the Occupy Movement is no longer operating within a Cone of Silence. A quick Google search of ‘Occupy Together’, the catch-all name for the activities associated with the activism emerging from the original Occupy Wall Street, sprang out a pretty impressive 209,000,000 results. Indeed, it is now worldwide. A quick list of countries and/or cities with Occupations either on-going or planned:

United States of America (50+ cities)
Canada (Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Thunder Bay)
New Zealand (Wellington, Christchurch)
Germany (Frankfurt)
Italy (Rome, Milan)
Spain (Madrid, Barcelona)
South Korea (Seoul)
Australia (Sydney, Melbourne)

… and on and on

And yes, a news result on Google peaked my curiousity. Searching ‘hot chicks of Occupy Wall Street’ displays (good grief!) 29,800,000 results!

However, just to put life in perspective: ‘hot chicks of the Tea Party’ also yields 21,600,000 results; although ‘hot chicks of the Republican Party’ only coughs up a relatively paltry 1,810,000. And just to finish this off - the Democrats have even less - 1,660,000. So the obvious lesson for males with lecherous intent is avoid your precinct caucus and grab a tent instead.

You're supposed to be looking at THE SIGN!

The point of all this (besides undoubtedly popping this column to the top of SEO searches) is that Occupy is now creating its own weather. It has momentum, growth and the single most important factor for a social movement: coolness. It’s new, it’s hot, and now it’s sexy.

Now that can be both a strength and a weakness. People who wander out to an Occupy event just to ‘see what all the shouting’s about’ yield numbers, which is good; and a lack of true believer commitment, which can be very bad. For the first time I worry about violent acts. Random thugs who sneak into an Occupation hoping to do a smash-and-grab under cover of a large crowd are now a real possibility. They are the same thugs who do the same thing when a big city team wins a major sports championship. So, I worry.

The greater worry though is what the Power, the 1% will do in response. Clearly the suffocation response has not worked. Big Media has been hauled out to cover the events. Any remaining credibility would be lost if the Occupation was ignored. Furthermore, the sniffy dismissals of, ‘they have no agenda’ have been dealt with and have turned into a boomerang. People are now bringing more agenda items: student debt, renewable energy, labour rights, etc. etc. I don’t think I’m exaggerating one bit when I say that the entire field of public policy has been put into play - it’s not just bringing back Glass-Steagall (the American banking regulations Act that has been dismantled over the past 30 years) any more.

So what has been offered up in response is...Herman Cain? It’s not that Cain has a snowball’s chance of being either President or even the Republican Presidential nominee. I’m on the record as saying if Cain is the Republican nominee, I will jump out of a cake, slowly strip to the sounds of Peggy Lee’s ‘Fever’ and stick a burning sparkler between my butt cheeks - all of this at your worst enemy’s next birthday party. Trust me, you wouldn’t wish that on your friends.

But Cain is a distraction. ‘Hey! Look over here! Black guy with EZ tax plans!’ And Big Media have turned their heads in his direction.

His 9-9-9 plan is an idiot’s dream. A 9% flat tax on individual income, 9% on corporate income and a 9% sales tax. Oh please spare me. Lowering corporate taxes to 9% while raising the price of toilet paper 9% is an Idiot’s Guide to Economic Idiots.

The second response in the U.S. has been the 53% movement. Supposedly 47% of the people in the U.S. pay no income tax. This is supposed to enrage the middle class. It well should, but not for the reasons the 53% founders want. There are over 46 million people in the U.S. living in poverty. That makes a pretty good chunk of that 47%. Once again, a possible boomerang effect.

Two more parts to come in this series. Next time out, we start to look at the next step - how to build on this momentum and create real change.

Be seeing you.

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The Occupy Movement Part Two: The Armies of the Day

Politics for Joe:
The Occupy Movement, Part Two
The Armies of the Day
12 October 2011
By: Hubert O’Hearn
For: Lake Superior News


I looked something up before writing this, the second of a five part series on the Occupy Movement that was the genius idea of a group of Canadians at AdBusters, came to birth on Wall Street and now is busily reproducing in parks, city squares and financial centres in the great cities of the world. Is it a revolution? Of course it is. Now before one starts imagining scenes of guerrilla warfare and screaming widows bearing slaughtered children, I remind you that Darwin’s Theory of Evolution was also a revolution and Darwin never fired a shot. So far, so peaceful, so good.

It all brings back childhood memories, of the last time thousands took to the streets and occupied buildings, city squares and the like. Not the Big Media one-time million man marches or vast prayer meetings or outdoor town halls - those are as instantaneous and instantaneously forgettable as any year’s Super Bowl. (Go ahead, name me any five plays from any individual Super Bowl. You can name one or two, but five? Exactly.) No, we’re talking about the sustained effort here - the long campaign that stretches across vast terrains of time and space, emergent from mist and ending in sunlight.

The last one of those was, dear God how time flies when we’d prefer it to walk, between 40 and 50 years ago. That long campaign was the one against the Vietnam War, which began with the distribution of the Port Huron Statement, written mostly by Tom Hayden, in New York’s Gramercy Park. (What is it with movements and New York parks anyway?) It ended with U.S. diplomats scrambling onto helicopters that landed on the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City.

That movement began as a student protest. Students had the most to lose in Vietnam, as they were right in the demographic sweet spot for drafting into the Army. All successful movements have to expand from their base and into other classes, ages and the professions. Which brings me to the piece of writing I looked up before starting this column.

Besides being one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th Century, Norman Mailer was an interesting character within his own life. He was a vain and violent soft-hearted liberal. Many of those adjectives don’t work easily together, and that’s exactly what made Mailer interesting. In 1967 and 1968, he wrote a series of pieces for Esquire magazine that were collected into The Armies of the Night. Mailer covered the protests, the demonstrations, the politics at the height of that movement. Brilliant stuff, as it would be when a great novelist turns his eyes and imagination to reporting.

Anyway, one evening Mailer was called upon to address a group preparing for a march on the Pentagon. Here is a portion of what he said and wrote. It ends with a naughty word. I apologize if either Mailer or I offend.

“We are gathered here” - shades of Lincoln in hippieland - “to make a move on Saturday to invest the Pentagon and halt and slow down its workings, and this will be at once a symbolic act and a real act” - he was roaring - “for real heads may possibly get hurt, and soldiers will be there to hold us back, and some of us may be arrested” - how, wondered the wise voice at the rear of this roaring voice, could one ever leave Washington now without going to jail? - “some blood conceivably will be shed. If I were the man in the government responsible for controlling this March, I would not know what to do.” Sonorously - “I would not wish to arrest too many or hurt anyone for fear the repercussions in the world would be too large for my bureaucrat’s heart to bear - it’s so full of shit.”

If the parallel lines aren’t obvious, the reader has no perspective. Perhaps the key phrase is, “I would not know what to do.” That seems to apply to both sides of the Occupy Movement. Big Media - by which I mean the New York Times, CNN’s ephemeral to the point of translucence Erin Burnett, and the major American and Canadian TV networks - spent the first two weeks since Occupy Wall Street began on September 17th telling readers and viewers that the Occupiers had “no agenda.” Then on October 5th, Keith Olbermann on Current TV’s Countdown read the first collective statement (http://current.com/shows/countdown/videos/special-comment-keith-reads-first-collective-statement-of-occupy-wall-street) of the Occupiers and there went that argument out the window.

I invite you to either listen to the statement or read the transcript on the Countdown site, but for those whose time is limited, here are the highlights:
1) corporations have taken self-interest over justice
2) the workplace has become corrupted through discrimination and outsourcing
3) the farming system has been undermined through monopolization
4) money has corrupted politics
5) economic policies have led to catastrophe
6) environmental cover-ups
7) the judiciary has been unduly influenced in granting corporations the same rights
as individuals

There is much more to it than that. Ultimately, if one were to breathe deep and pick one word to describe the entire statement, or indeed the movement as a whole, it would be Equality. Perhaps Balance might be better, but Equality has a nice legal ring to it. As pictures do speak a thousand words (and as I wrote that I realized I was close to a thousand words already), here is a map of the world showing economic balances country by country. Full credit to The Atlantic for putting this together:






What the map shows is what is known as the GINI coefficient. Put in layman’s terms, a country with a coefficient of .00 would have a perfect economic distribution: 80% of the people would control 80% of the economy, 10% would control 10% and so forth. The highest imbalance is .50. As you can see there are some countries whose imbalance is even greater that .50. Much like quarterback ratings it is possible to be more perfect (or imperfect in this case) than perfection. And so it is that certain African republics, including South Africa, have people with absolute no economic power whatsoever which takes them right off the charts, so to speak.

The U.S. is at a coefficient of .45, perilously close to that ultimate imbalance of .50. China, with absolutely no democracy and workers turning 12 hour shifts for tiny wages so that you, dear consumer, can get a nice deal on home furnishings, is at .415. Yes, Communist China is in better balance than the United States of America. As is Russia. As is Canada.

As is Canada? So what are we so upset about? Why are we planning to Occupy Toronto and other cities on October 15th? Our pale green splotch of a .30-.35 coefficient puts us in line with most of Western Europe, although not quite as green as Scandinavia. Two credible reasons:

1) We know a trend when we see one. Although Canadian banking regulations have defended us from the widespread debt crisis that set off the Wall Street bailouts, there is a strong perception that economically things are not going as well as they should. The Canadian Occupy movement is more to prepare for the future rather than repair the present.
2) The non-financial issues of the environment, justice and privacy are more likely to come to the forefront here. One hastens to mention that all of these do have economic impact and a huge impact at that, but the coefficient of issues is likely to parallel the GINI coefficient.

In any event, I have asked friends who will be at Occupy Toronto to report back to me on what is said and what is distributed. Because God knows I don’t trust our networks and newspapers to do it for me.

Part Three will be out in two days time. At that time I want to look at the “I do not know what to do”  issue from the side of the 1%. What is the specific threat to power, and how is the 1% responding? Please send me any comments you have or questions you want answered.

Be seeing you.