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> Sure, not everyone cares about Spears. TMZ recently caught Democratic
> presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton on video laughing when asked
> by a re****ter about the troubled star.
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such a *****
Celebrities love giving advice to Britney
Everyone from Courtney Love to Miley Cyrus has an opinion to share
Image: Courtney Love
Matt Sayles / AP
Rocker Courtney Love has been had her own share of troubles with drugs,=20
but says, "If (Britney) doesn't get help something very, very bad is=20
going to happen."
updated 2:00 p.m. ET Feb. 5, 2008
LOS ANGELES - It seems everyone has advice for breakdown diva Britney=20
Spears these days, including those glittering examples of stable living=20
themselves ? other celebrities.
From teen phenom Miley Cyrus to rehab rocker Courtney Love, a slew of=20
performers, politicians and religious figures, some with their own=20
background of drug abuse or mental illness, are all here to help.
For every bizarre moment of her surreal, paparazzi-punctuated life, the=20
26-year-old pop star has not only gained a devoted media following, but=20
also a fragile persona famous people love to comment on ? their kids,=20
too.
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When asked by TV?s ?Extra? about Spears, ?Crocodile Hunter? widow Terri=20
Irwin took a cue from her daughter.
?Bindi?s the one who said ... ?People who are having trouble should go=20
in the bush with us when we do our crocodile research work? ... and if=20
Britney and her family want to go in the bush with us, we?d love to
have=20
them.?
Comic and goofy pot activist Tommy Chong, who served a nine-month=20
sentence four years ago for trying to sell marijuana pipes on the=20
Internet, offered his own brand of advice for the tabloid princess.
?Enjoy the attention because it?s not going to last,? he told The=20
Associated Press. ?The serious advice is someone needs to check out her=20
diet, and if cocaine is part of the diet then cut down, eliminate=20
cocaine from the diet.?
Rock star Love, known for her own history of drug abuse and court=20
foibles, took a more serious stance, telling ?Access Hollywood? Spears=20
?definitely needs help.?
?Having been there, here is what?s going to happen. If she doesn?t get=20
help something very, very bad is going to happen,? added Love.
Love said younger starlets with recent troubles, such as Lindsay Lohan=20
and Paris Hilton, listen to her as if she?s their ?cool aunt.?
Progression of strange behavior
Spears? weird behavior has progressed from her head-shaving incident a=20
year ago to being carted away in a daze by paramedics earlier this
month=20
when she refused to relinquish one of her two young sons to ex-husband=20
Kevin Federline, who has custody of the boys.
Then, early Thursday, Spears was taken from her home yet again by=20
ambulance and escorted to the hospital by more than a dozen police=20
officers on the ground and in the air. A police source said she was=20
taken to the hospital to ?get help.?
?Other than me and Britney, no one?s been strapped to a gurney,? said a=20
wide-eyed Love.
Rapper-turned-actor Ice-T, once known for his gangsta scowl, looked to=20
his own mom for advice for Spears.
?My mama used to say, ?You keep using the same ingredients, you?re=20
making the same cake. If you want to make a new cake, you got to change=20
the ingredients,?? he told People magazine, adding that Spears should=20
?come with a clean slate.?
Fifteen-year-old Cyrus, whose ?Hannah Montana? TV show and concerts
have=20
sparked a high-pitched tween frenzy similar to Spears in her younger=20
heyday, cited her own family sup****t.
?If I didn?t have them, I?d probably be in the same position? as
Spears,=20
Cyrus told ?Extra.? ?You just got to know who your true friends are and=20
I think for me, that is my mom.?
Tracy Morgan said Spears should plug into a higher power. The ?30 Rock?=20
comedian wore a court-ordered bulky alcohol monitoring device on his
own=20
ankle for a few months last year.
?Britney needs to pray. She needs to get connected spiritually and she=20
needs to join the real world and leave that artificial stuff alone and=20
go get her kids,? Morgan told People.
Kathy Griffin, who?s forged something of a second career out of taking=20
wiseacre potshots at celebrities, mostly wanted to make over the=20
frequently frazzled-looking singer, known to wear dresses skimming her=20
underwear.
?I?d like her just to wash her hair,? the comedienne cracked to TMZ.com.
Sure, not everyone cares about Spears. TMZ recently caught Democratic=20
presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton on video laughing when
asked=20
by a re****ter about the troubled star.
Republican presidential nominee Mike Huckabee actually did have some=20
advice when questioned about Spears by TMZ ? albeit pretty lukewarm.
?I?d tell her to be careful,? he mumbled.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure=20
uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other=20
possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are=20
viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
Allan Bloom
The Closing of the American Mind
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