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Emma ‘Hermione’ Watson to Leave Brown Univ. After Students Taunt Her

Business Insider reports that Emma Watson, the young actress who played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, plans to take a leave of absence from Brown University. Watson enrolled at Brown for undergraduate study in 2009.

Emma Hermione Watson to Leave Brown Univ. After Students Taunt Her

Here’s Business Insider:

Apparently, Emma Watson’s desire to just be “normal” didn’t go as planned.

According to the Daily News, the Harry Potter star has taken a leave of absence from Brown University that may turn out to be permanent.

The New York Daily News has more details about how Watson was treated at Brown:

The insider says Watson didn’t shy away from class participation and often would “answer something in class and get it right,” calling the 21-year-old actress “really smart.” Unfortunately, this brought out the sophisticated wit and cinematic expertise of her Ivy League peers.

According to the source, her classmates “would respond [to her answer] with a quote from ‘Harry Potter.’“ The most popular choice was ”Three points for Gryffindor!” – a reference to the movie’s dormitory system, and a congratulatory phrase in the films when a student got a correct answer.

This wasn’t the only difficulty for the actress, who said on her personal blog before entering school that she just “want[ed] to be normal.” While attending a Brown-vs.-Harvard football game in Cambridge, the pixie-haired star described being “stalked” by Harvard students in her school’s section.

On her website, Watson wrote, “I‘ve decided to take a bit of time off to completely finish my work on ’Harry Potter’ … and to focus on my other professional and acting projects.”

She added: “I will still be working towards my degree … it’s just going to take me a semester or two longer than I thought.”

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  • American_Alliance_for_the_Support_of_Sarcasm
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 7:06am

    If I were her I would be laughing at them after I tell them how much money I made off all the films.
    Then tell them hom poor they are. But I am sure she isn’t that kind of person.

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  • Rashomon
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 7:02am

    Emma Watson should become a little more Emma Peel.

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  • Wyatt's Torch
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 7:01am

    Why didn’t she just cast a spell with her wand? duh…

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    • JGraham III
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:54pm

      I totally agree! She would just have to give it a flick and solemnly in tone “ poopicus horribilis grandii” and they would become what they really are inside…

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  • Access Denied
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 6:54am

    It appears the w a n k e r s at Brown knew the Potter series well. She was paid BIG bucks for her role in the Potter films. They, on the other hand, had to pay their daddies and mommies hard earned money to learn all the wonderful tidbits they love to share.

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  • Rob
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 6:54am

    Stick yourself out there and you are out there…. I am happy being unknown.

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  • ADNIL
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 6:50am

    It’s too bad but this sort of crap comes with the territory. It is also very commendable that she wants to continue her education beyond acting. After all, look what sometimes has happened to “child stars” in the past. As soon as they grow up, for some, their careers (and lives) are over and they turn to drugs, alchohol, and bad behaviors. She is beautiful, talented, AND smart! YOU GO GIRL!

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  • MOLLYPITCHER
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 6:44am

    Too bad. The other kids are only envious because of who she is and that she is smarter than them. I hope she will be able to move on and lead some sort of normal life.

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  • Salamander
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 6:31am

    “One for the Gipper” didn’t bother Presiden Reagan! But, gosh, it is so-o-o wonderful for someone with fame and fortune to WANT to be NORMAL! The rest of Hollywood must be cringing in their boots! I wish her the best. I hope she completes her studies in a worthwhile (to her) field. I hope she meets someone who loves her for who she is (and not try to change her)! And I hope she leads a normal and fulfilling life! She sounds like a really great lady to me!

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  • Bob_R_OathKeeper
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 5:22am

    I’d be happy to home-school her. :)

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  • karenhasfreedom
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 4:51am

    She probably needs to go to UCLA or Stanford, where the students are used to famous faces. It might help her blend in.

    Pathetic really that the natives are her school are hostile.

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    • quicker
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 5:07am

      She needs to go to the one Rush talks about.

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    • betsea ross
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:11am

      not to be gossipy but I read somewhere she was looking at NYU- I think probably “out of the frying pan into to the fire” of progressives.

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    • DogWithA_Bone
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:23am

      Liberty U.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 4:29am

    She probably doesn’t need the University degree. She’s an actress, not a physicist. There’s nothing wrong with learning about as much as one can about how the World works, but what does she want to do with a degree?

    Does she want to teach something? An University degree is quite worthless if the person wants to be an actor.

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    • quicker
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 4:47am

      Mabe she doe`nt want to be an actress all her life.If a lot of these people had gotten more of an educatetion maybe their lives would have been differant,people like Britteny Spears or Ltnsey Lohan.Ya know the list go`s on .My hats off to her.

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  • Fred M
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 4:06am

    This is the downside to being famous. Even Obama is complaining about not being able just walk around. Hopefully, she has the money and smarts to get adequate security.

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 3:50am

    Never attend a college named for the color of…oh, never mind.

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  • green_manalishi
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 3:21am

    I could be completely wrong on this assessment but since I’m a fan of Emma Brown , I think she is too classy for Brown University. I’m surprised she chose ( Brown) over Oxford and Cambridge. I suppose she thought she could benefit from getting out of her native civilization.. She thought American higher ed was civilized. Ha Ha Ha . It is the fountain of liberal moral depravity, multiracism and a plethora of cognitive toxicity. On the other hand maybe she needs to toughen up a bit . She could give Brooke Shields a call , another celebrity who endured celebritydom at Princeton. ( I used to work for a twit who graduated from Brown, he was an utter failure as a human being)

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  • Vie_En_Ras
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:43am

    I wish her well. It’s sad when a renowned college is full of immature nitwits. She‘s such a great role model and I’m sad to see her being treated like that. I hope she‘ll be able to find a way to achieve what she’s aiming for without the harassment.

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  • BonnieBlueFlag
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:06am

    It’s sad, be she is right to be concerned. Jodie Foster was at Yale when she was being stalked by John Hinckley (on campus.)

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  • colonial10
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:05am

    I once heard a quote that seems to fit with this issue. This person said, “ I wanted to become financially independent so I could afford to get away from the jokers”. This gal is smart and an entrepreneur. I‘m sure she’ll realize that she can afford to get away from all these liberals who believe in mediocracy.

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  • v12tommy
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:45am

    That is exactly why I don’t like to be in front of the camera when filming. Chances are you have probably seen some of my work, but if you saw me on the street or saw a photo of me, you wouldn’t be able to put the two together. That is just the way I like it, and I hope it stays that way.

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  • axel@25
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:45am

    I think the primary problem at most colleges today is that WAY to many “students” attend because they’re told it is the only way to have a successful life, and not because they are remotely qualified or desirsous of being there for an actual education. Universities lost their purpose when they stopped teaching latin and started teaching basket weaving to attract the the non-serious student tuition $$.

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    • sodacrackers2
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 7:37am

      AND started becoming indoctrination sites!

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    • ClockKing
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:25am

      You nailed it. Many colleges are becoming High School Part 2 because of too many students who shouldn’t be there. Colleges are having to teach subjects kids should have learned, at some point, in four years of HS.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:32am

    What is it about fame and celebrity that has so many people acting like fools? She’s a beautiful young lady and ought to be left to her studies. It’s sad but predictable!

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    • RightPolitically
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:44am

      And furthermore…….seems to me that it’s a matter of values. When a person doesn’t envy or covert, that person would act respectful toward a famous, successful person, not like a JACKASS wanting recognition.

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    • OFFmyMEDS
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:29am

      Where was the left wing “prof” in all of this? Oh yeah, letting the “lefties” walk over all over her because she is famous and maybe well off.

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    • jedi.kep
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 6:59am

      At least Emma isn’t wrecking her life with her fame like so many American women do (Lohan, Cirus).

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    • freeus
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:58am

      Don’t whine. It goes with the territory of celebrity.

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  • bikermama
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:26am

    Maybe she ought to try a more conservative college where the students where raised with some manners. When i was younger, I had a friend who went to Johnson and Whales which is not far from Brown. I use to go visit and the students there then were snotty, rude and full of self importance, extremely liberal. Most never had to do anything to get where they were, they were spoon feed their whole lives. Sounds like much hasn’t changed.

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:28am

      You have an excellent point…perhaps a college with a more conservative point of view would be to Ms. Watson’s liking…smaller campus and a better class of people…Is Hillsdale still accepting for next fall???

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  • joseph Fawcett
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:21am

    Shame what fame can do to you, even if you don’t want it. Maybe she should look into a Christian College, don’t know if that will be any better. I would think and hope so.

    http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist

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  • bipolar freak
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:19am

    I never want to be a rich and famous movie star. Imagine the horror and humiliation of having your classmates congratulate you for answering a question right. Don’t Harvard students stalk every female of college age?

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    • sodacrackers2
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 7:33am

      Bipolar, do you really think they were congratulating her on answering correctly? They were making fun of her, trying to put her down while getting a cheap laugh at her expense. It goes on in all of our schools where history and geography are now “social studies,” grammar, reading, literature, English are “language arts,” smart and enthusiastic children are mocked and taunted, and it is way cool to be above it all. These are our future “progressive” leaders. Blech!!

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  • Showtime
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:19am

    I love her crocheted top!

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    • bipolar freak
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:22am

      For those in Rio Linda, that is pronounced “crow-shade”

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:37am

      I just spell it the way spell check tells me to. Is a curious word, though, is it not?

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    • flattop
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:18am

      Its a French word. Bound to be curious.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 3:18am

      @Showtime
      It is french originally (the word and the fabric style)

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 3:48am

      Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering how a “top” could be used for a crotch area.

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    • DogWithA_Bone
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:20am

      Umm… that is not crochet. It looks to be embroidered with water soluble stabilizer.

      Wow that was really off subject! : ) I have really admired the way this young lady has handled

      her life so far. I have yet to hear any of the negatives that we come to associate with young people

      that are famous. Major Kudos to her parents for raising such a level headed young lady! Even more

      to her as she is an adult now and seems capable of making good choices!!! More than I can say for

      the entitlement brats that are coming out of public school and college these days.

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  • Showtime
    Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:18am

    Well, the students are probably envious because she’s famous and smarter than they are.

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    • Dale
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:22am

      Snow;

      I believe it was Andy Warhol who said everyone will get their 15 minutes of fame. Some, apparently, don’t seem to be content to wait.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:25am

      the students are probably envious because she’s famous and smarter than they are.
      ———–
      Yup. Those students are just being the good little community organizers they are supposed to be …

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:26am

      Emma Watson, You done well young Lady…Be Proud!

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:30am

      SHOW…

      Bingo!

      You nailed this one. I’m betting she came away from that experience with a different attitude towards progressives.

      Take the “best choice for POTUS” Poll…
      http://www.AmericasTeaPartyNews.com

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    • TomBombadil
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:05am

      I’m sure they are envious that she was able to star in some of the most popular movies in a long long time.

      While I don’t know the specifics and intricacies of the situation, what the article describes about the classroom situations doesn’t really seem like taunting. Teasing at the worst. However, the stalking is a terrible thing. Sadly with something with such a cult following as Harry Potter, she’ll probably have to deal with that forever. I hope she can learn how to handle it well.

      However, you‘d think she’d realize that she’ll probably be Hermione for the rest of her life. Johnny Depp will always be Captain Jack Sparrow. Harrison Ford, Han Solo and Indiana Jones.

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    • ME
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:07am

      excuse me, while I wipe a tear from my eye:(

      “Sarcasm” seems I need to identify it, as so many seem to miss the painfully obvious.

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:29am

      Well, some nastiness in an ivy league college? What else is new? She needs to transfer to a GOOD college where she will be respected.

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    • Marylou7
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 5:40am

      Sounds like pretty normal behavior from progressives. When you sleep with dogs you can only expect to get fleas. Too bad progressives are so disruptive BUT that is what these useful idiots are trained to do.

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    • Marylou7
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 5:48am

      Someone would have to either steal my heart or pay me a small fortune to crochet that top. It is beautiful.

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    • UPSETVET
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 6:10am

      Poor baby, if she can‘t take the heat she shouldn’t have entered the kitchen. I think it’s a pretty common practice for movie and TV “stars” to be heckled by fans and reporters. It gos with the ocupation that is very public but lucrative.

      “ She just wants to be normal ”. What Emma Watson experienced is normal for celebrities worldwide and she should have expected some degree of “special attention” due to her fame and stardom. She can always take classes on the internet if seclusion instead of notoriety is her prefernce.

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    • anonymous_todd
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 6:20am

      Agreed.

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    • Mannax
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 6:20am

      1) First off, congratulations on actually continuing with your education instead of deciding to fall back solely on your acting like most of “Hollywood” does.
      2) It is a shame that those in the Ivy League schools aren’t grown up enough to act like adults.
      3) Ms. Watson, this is real life. Unfortunately, you are going to get @$$hats no matter where you go. My recommendation is to get a thicker skin and ignore the “children”.
      4) You have already proven that you have what it takes to excel if you put your mind to it as you are going to college after spending most of your highschool career on a movie set.
      5) This comment has been censored because this is a family show.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 6:35am

      “Unfortunately, this brought out the sophisticated wit and cinematic expertise of her Ivy League peers.”

      THERE is NOTHING sophisticated about taunting. There is “childish”; “bratty” and you are correct…these students are displaying unmannerly actions. WHERE IS THE PROFESSOR? One comment – ONE time could have been funny…but to be taunted…. WHERE IS THE PROFESSOR?

      This “INSULT” mentality which has replaced civil discussion must be replaced or it’s just going to get worse. I hope that this talented young woman realizes that the ‘taunters’ are jealous of her good fortune to have made a fortune in her life (and fame). She has done the right thing by removing herself from a taunting situation and I hope she’ll find another University – maybe not IVY league – that will exhibit better manners. AFTER ALL: most of the professors who ended up in these IVY LEAGUERS are Communist plants (seriously) whose only job was to ‘plant’ faux information and create havoc so as to ‘rot America from the inside’ (it was recently admitted in big articles all over the news – we’d known it for years – but finally proven).

      I hope the University will take some steps to fix this situation. IT should be a matter of shame to bully or taunt anyone for any reason.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 7:27am

      Typical rude liberals and the work of the green eyed monster. Too bad the professors didn’t put a stop to it immediately. Rudeness shouldn’t be tolerated.

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    • love the kids
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 7:35am

      If she wants to stop the taunting, she should do an interview and bring up how the global warming has affected these people to the point that they don’t know what they are doing. Then she should say that the Fat Cat CEO’s are also behind this.

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    • William
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:28am

      Poor girl……….She has probably done more in her short 21 years then most of them.

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:40am

      I thought all college kids did, was party!! when would you find time for a break?? (from Partying)

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:37am

      It’s too bad she sees the need to be educated at a university, since many these days, especially the ones like Brown, are in the death throes of Liberalism and have lost all vision for what a truly liberal education means. If she is smart and governs her film earnings she will be free to write her own ticket with regard to her life’s occupation, doing what she loves rather than what people will pay her to do.

      My advice is to skip formal education and educate herself. Lincoln did it. But if she must immerse herself in an academic environment she should choose a smaller more serious one than Brown.

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    • mikelivi
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:44am

      She “just wants to be normal”? Sorry Emma, you’ll never be just another student. You’re a lead actress on one of the most successful movie franchises ever, be happy about that, you’ll never want for anything………

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    • HuskerDave
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:27am

      Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:29am
      Well, some nastiness in an ivy league college? What else is new? She needs to transfer to a GOOD college where she will be respected.

      You beat me to it.. I was going to say something similar. Too many of the students at Ivy League schools have been told they’re the cream of the crop, and shouldn’t have to stoop to the level of a mere actor. Regardless of the arguable value of a college education, I have to applaud young Miss Watson for pursuing a degree on her own merits. At least she is going on her own dime, unlike many of her fellow Ivy Leagers (yes, Obama comes to mind).

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    • jackrorabbit
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:00am

      Well, I applaud her for going to college, when she doesn’t have to. She has enough money for the rest of her life easily. It just shows how stupid our students have become. Not taught anything but hate the rich, even if it is one of their own now. This should actually scare the snot out of us, because there was a time that the fame of a child star would get them everything in college.

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    • Physicist_In_Training
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:03am

      This is a prime example of why I never want to be famous. Unless it’s famous in a “mentioned-in-every-math-and-physics-textbook” sort of way.

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:27am

      Its always heartbreaking to learn of the trials of the poor unfortunate victims of Hollywood fame and fortune. They struggle for years and years to get noticed and become famous and then it happens and they spend many more years trying to have the benefits of fame and fortune without any of the downside of being noticed. So lonely having to spend their time on private beaches in Malibu and in Mansions here and there slinking from limousines to private jets eating gourmet meals prepared by famous chefs only to be hounded by strangers shooting at them with cameras.
      Is it jealousy that causes so many of them to spit on our soldiers? The anonymous souls that sleep in foxholes eating cold crappy food while being shot at by strangers with guns?
      Oh the humanity!!! Please help these poor tortured Hollywood souls.

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    • HellPhish89
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 3:05pm

      @patty… that line was sarcasm…

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    • nptden
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 4:52pm

      and more attractive.

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    • The Big Pickle
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:47pm

      Stuck up elistist snubs at Ivy schools need to be dragged out to the public square ala the French Revolution.

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    • 28_ID
      Posted on April 23, 2011 at 9:10am

      Yup, that is the unfortunate price of having intelligence, fortune, and fame at a young age. Perhaps she ought to flip off the Ivy League system and go to a conservative school, where she’d be appreciated.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on April 23, 2011 at 9:56am

      ………
      “We can’t have this. it’s an outrage,
      why she actually EARNED her own money!
      What’s next? Scholarships? What will mum think?”

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    • Paul -Indiana
      Posted on April 24, 2011 at 6:41pm

      And beautiful!

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