Stockard Channing Arrested! OMG!

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Who's to be next, I ask you; who's next? Anything's possible in this police state.

The Associated Press
Wednesday, January 26, 2005; 2:30 AM

LOS ANGELES - Emmy-winning actress Stockard Channing was arrested for investigation of drunken driving after she tried to drive around a roadblock on the Hollywood Freeway, authorities said Tuesday.

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― EComplex (EComplex), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Horrible mugshot too:

http://re2.mm-a.yimg.com/image/296791689

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought she would have been arrested for Grease.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw a headline "Channing arrested..." on salon yesterday and thought it was Carol Channing, and all I could think of was "Should she be driving at all at her age?" I don't even know if she's still alive.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought of Carol too!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, in Iraq if you try to evade a checkpoint they riddle your car with bullets. Makes you think, eh?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

that is so wrong (dave225)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

you know, I was surprised she's 60 years old, she looks a hell of a lot younger.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a certain grim satisfaction in seeing right wing foibles destroying each other like Toho monsters. In this case, self-assertive individualism (Channing in her car, feistily enjoying her 'liberty') runs up against security state paranoia (a roadblock manned by a porky authoritarian with keys dangling at his belt). Then of course there's the spectacle of celebrity culture in the press reports (the news as all-celeb Big Brother rubberneck session). Roadkill! Cawfee! Felony! Orange alert!

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

*slaps forehead*

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

But isn't it nice to know that all those right wing modules just don't work together at all well? That there is no Bush - Sharon utopia at the end of the freeway or inside the wall, just a lot of car-crashes, arrests, and conflicts? The system collapses under the weight of its own contradictions.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but Stockard Channing is HOTT.

― bprofane (AaronHz), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah! self-assertion is so "right-wing"!

― Miles Finch, Thursday, 27 January 2005 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that a very shocking alignment? Communist societies are collectivist, capitalist societies individualist. Self-assertion is part of individualist capitalist culture. Many right wing people call themselves libertarians and want the right to assert themselves above all else. There's also a left wing tradition of self-assertion, of course, which is part of the reparation culture of identity politics. The condition is that the person asserting him/herself must be a victim or belong to a minority group. You could call this 'collectivist self-assertion'. I don't think it's what Stockard Channing was doing when she drove through the barrier, whatever her lawyer has advised her to plead in court. ('I was a victim of sherry, your honour.') I think she probably just thought she had the right to drive her car pretty much anywhere. And was tight.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you're conflating different strands. Capitalist society 'is' collectivist objectively -- any factory 'is' a collectivity. But liberal ideology refuses to recognize this: this contrues social agents as 'individuals' in a certain sense. But critiquing 'individualism' in a moralistic sense has little to do with Marx and more to do with kulturkritik -- honourable enough, but not really anything to do with changing society. Which Marxists say driving too fast serves capital?

The second part of your post is bunk: there are plenty of libertarian leftists who have nothing to do with 'identity politics' at all.

― Miles Finch, Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

Saw her onstage tonight for the 4th time in the last 26 (?) years. What an actress.

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 May 2012 05:19 (fourteen years ago)

Jealous!! She is one of my favorites. She can do it all.

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 May 2012 05:25 (fourteen years ago)

It was the first time the play wasn't by John Guare.

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 May 2012 05:36 (fourteen years ago)

What was the play?

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 May 2012 05:38 (fourteen years ago)

Watching Six Degrees of Separation in very early '94 was one of the most magical moments in my filmgoing career. She's amazing. The only other film performance up to it is that thing with Julia Stiles in 2001.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 May 2012 11:47 (fourteen years ago)

It was Other Desert Cities by Jon Robert Baitz, in which S.C. plays a Texan Jewish Republican matron (married to Stacy Keach) whose writer-daughter comes home for Christmas with her latest book, a memoir exposing a family tragedy. Things are not what they seem.

Her character spits at the daughter, "I think living on the East Coast has given you the impression that sarcasm is alluring and charming. It is not. Sarcasm is the purview of teenagers and homosexuals."

(Reply: "Now that I’m single, those are basically my two preferred social groups.")

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 May 2012 14:28 (fourteen years ago)

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