Comments on: Breaking Report Confirms AWOL Child Star ‘Mama Dakota’ is Safe, Still Working http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/03/breaking_report_confirms_awol_child_star_mama_dakota_is_safe_still_working-2/ Celebrity Gossip and Pop Culture from Australia and Hollywood Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:36:06 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Steven Mark Pilling http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/03/breaking_report_confirms_awol_child_star_mama_dakota_is_safe_still_working-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2750 Steven Mark Pilling Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:10:43 +0000 http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/03/breaking_report_confirms_awol_child_star_mama_dakota_is_safe_still_working-2.html#comment-2750 <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> 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.

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