I can't decide where to start mocking. There's just so much!

[apocalypsos]

Spotted on IMDb ...

Supermodel Christie Brinkley turned an outing to see revived Broadway musical West Side Story into a life lesson for her teenage son - in a bid to warn him about the dangers of gangs.

The blonde beauty admits she's worried her 13-year-old son Jack - from her marriage to ex Peter Cook - will get in with the wrong crowd, and she saw the opening of the musical as an ideal opportunity to teach him all about gang violence.

The production features rival gangs from different cultural backgrounds, whose fights turn fatal when one leader dates another's sister.

Brinkley tells the New York Daily News, “Not too long ago, my son and daughter were on an online game, and a pop-up ad came up and they were trying to recruit the kids to a gang. And I thought ‘Oh my gosh!’

"I thought he (son) could learn a thing or two from the show. Kids back then joined gangs, and (it) is relevant as these gangs are re-emerging.”

Comments

[thornsilver]

!!!

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

a pop-up ad came up and they were trying to recruit the kids to a gang

... what?

[misty-writes.livejournal.com]

LOL X INFINITY. I mean, her intentions are good, but... LOL.

[misachan.livejournal.com]

Aw. I think it's kind of sweet, albeit in an "Oh my God so sheltered" way. You can almost hear the kid's anguished "MO-OM!" embarrassment.

[dhark-charlotte.livejournal.com]

O.o

Well, isn't she all proactive and stuff. I can't imagine how 'relevant' watching WSS would be in preparing her son for a real gang recruiter. Not that he'd be seriously recruited unless he did the approach and actually survived the process.

Online gaming 'gangs'? Sorry CB, those are called 'guilds' LOL.

[grlnamedlucifer.livejournal.com]

I...what?

She knows that the pop-up ads for online vampire games aren't actually offering to turn her kids into vampires... right?

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

Oh, there's so much wrong with that I can't even begin. There's a reason she was a model and not a rocket scientist, I guess.

[deirdre-c.livejournal.com]

One of your own kind! Stick to your own kind!

[suaine.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure whether to snigger and hide my grin, or just laugh out loud. It's so cute in a misguided way, and really, watching musicals can never hurt anyone.

Aww, she thinks "oh my gosh" and I can actually believe that.

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was my thought. Which... wow. *snickers*

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

Just remember that blonde jokes are not PC or even at all nice and bite your tongue. "Oh my gosh!"

It's really very dear of her.

[paradoxymoron.livejournal.com]

I know gangs around here (detroit) are bad, what with the sasshaying and the breaking and entering into song.

[ulkis.livejournal.com]

Yes, so many dancing gangs are re-emerging . . .

[nuptse.livejournal.com]

And next week she's taking the kids to see "Wicked" to show them the dangers of witchcraft.

I so wanna be there the first time one of the kids gets into a scuffle and resorts to jazz hands and/or softshoe.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Okay, I do have to stand up a bit for the original Robbins choreography, which isn't really wimpy when done right, and definitely doesn't involve jazz hands.

But Brinkley's comments? HEE. Oh dear me. West Side Stories is about actual gangs like Romeo and Juliet was about Italian family feuds.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

*West Side Story. I IS GOOD TYPIST.

[girl-wonder.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, yes, the infamous DANCING GANGS of the late 60's. How could we not find the similarities with today's youth?

[azurelunatic]

"re-emerging". Um.

[shadow-phoenix2.livejournal.com]

All because of those "Step Up" movies! =P

[gweneiriol.livejournal.com]

*flails*

*laughs*

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Well, she is an Uptown Girl, after all.