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Breaking Report Confirms AWOL Child Star 'Mama Dakota' is Safe, Still Working
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 7:53 AM on March 26, 2008
Having done our homework about dedicated Hollywood recluses over the last few days, we can assert with 100 percent certainty that despite her disappearance after the Park City clusterfuck that was Hounddog, Dakota Fanning is no John Hughes or Terrence Malick. Nevertheless, while this somewhat frightening video passed along by MTV (with its insistent English narrator positing: "Was she scared off by the negative press for Hounddog, or did she simply run and hide because she hit that awkward pubescent stage? Because it seems like all the little girl roles lately have been filled by others!") helps allay our worst DakotAWOL fears, what replaces them is perhaps eerier than any exile we could have imagined.
"Rest assured, friends and fans," the voiceover strains. "Dakota is not retired!" In the mass get-well card equivalent that follows, her "competitor" Abigail Breslin thinks Fanning is nice. Jodie Foster gives her the Child-Star Survivor Stamp Of Approval. The disgrace of Hounddog accounted for, we learn she's also starring in a slate of movies this year including Winged Creatures and The Secret Life of Bees, whose co-star Jennifer Hudson proclaims: "This is not a child! I call her Mama Dakota, OK? And she's half my age." Mama Dakota? Really? Talk about burying the lede! [Via Spout]
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Steven Mark Pilling
Posted April 1, 2008 4:10 AM
Unfortunately, Dakota's disgrace is apparently only beginning. Of the three films she's made since "Hounddog"; one was violent and exploitive, the next was a sci-fi potboiler and the last was an indifferent "abused child" melodrama which was filmed from the same studio as "Hounddog" and included most of the same technical crew. All were cheap, base-pay productions. Now, with a newly re-edited "Hounddog" threating to hit theaters this summer, her nightmare of Sundance 2007 looms anew.
Mama Dakota? Ask Joy Fanning, her real mama, about that one. She's the one most responsible for denying her own daughter a decent childhood and, for profit's sake, turning her from the most loved kid on Earth into the youngest-ever screen tramp in Hollywood history. Even Lindsey Lohan and Britney Spears weren't subjected to anything like "Hounddog" as children. Look at them now and imagine the likely fate of Dakota Fanning... even earlier than they.
nonce
Posted 10:40 AM 26/3/08
Maybe she just needs new management. Sam Lutfi is probably available.
nonce
CakeAndDeath
Posted 10:40 AM 26/3/08
People haven't forgotten about her. Why, there must be a least a half a dozen countdown-to-18 websites of her out there.
CakeAndDeath
SanFranBetsu
Posted 10:40 AM 26/3/08
"This is not a child!" Sad. This is a child.
SanFranBetsu
NoGrumpys
Posted 10:40 AM 26/3/08
Secret life of Bees? Didn't Seinfeld already do this?
NoGrumpys
hissykitty
Posted 11:25 AM 26/3/08
Once her orthodontic issues have been sorted & if she avoids the pitfalls of bad plastic surgery,drugs ( Hello MK & Ashley)etc
I think Miss Dakota will grow into quite a classic old fashioned beauty especially if she keeps that divine skin
If she avoids the pitfalls I predict the next Cate Blanchette is her future.
hissykitty