Re: Mr. Hannah Montana's Achy Broken Heart

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Mike Findlay wrote:
> I'm sure he's made mistakes and could have been a father but its awful 
> easy to sit back and armchair parent it when it isn't your kid who is a 
> multi million dollar marketing machine.

I feel for the guy, but still, who was it, exactly, who *made* her into a 
multi-million-dollar marketing machine?  Who was it, exactly, who 
co-starred with her on her TV show?  Who was it, exactly, who posed with 
her during that controversial photo session with Annie Leibovitz?

What makes this all so ironic is that two of Miley Cyrus's big-screen 
movies (Bolt, Hannah Montana: The Movie) were all about child/teen stars 
discovering that life was better *away* from Hollywood.

FWIW, to quote from my review of Bolt:

    And while I wouldn't want to press this point too strongly, there is 
always a whiff of condescension around high-profile Hollywood movies that 
go on and on about the soul-crushing vacuous-ness of the entertainment 
industry -- the heartless agents, the meaningless talk-show engagements, 
the press junkets, the merchandising, the strangers who desperately pitch 
their ideas to passing celebrities -- and the virtues of a life lived far, 
far away from that environment. This is all the more ironic when one of 
the main characters is played by a heavily-merchandized child star (i.e. 
Cyrus) who was brought into the business by her own country-music star 
father.

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