Dakota Fanning Carefully Studies Teen Mating Habits

@rubyruby: I wouldn't go back to my teen years for anything. Up or down, the 30s have been fantastic. The teen years? Not so much.

@bytememehard: i want him taken out and beaten senseless, stat.

@Cheap Shot: Since it's not really a party unless someone ends up sobbing in the bathroom, i'm guessing that was your role?

@Richard Lawson: RICHARD!! I love it!

She does look kinda miserable. Which pisses me off because I love her. Hey, maybe she's miserable because she's completely normal and proms are kind of a drag. At least they were when I was a young. Of course that may have been because I was an incredibly awkward baby dyke and my date was a boy. Enough about me!

I really want DF to be normal. If she shows signs of becomming a Lohan I wil probably kidnap her.

@rubyruby: Well said. Thank you.

stanhalen

@moochyshuckworth: See last tag.

But did she drunkenly/awkwardly lose her v-card to her date at her friends house afterwards?

moochyshuckworth

@Richard Lawson: Like the Aussie who wouldn't take his sunglasses off.

@Mount_Prion: That kid just became a celebrity.

Very cruel of Dakota to tell her HS nemesis (the one on the right) that the theme of the prom was Toga Party.

resipsaloquacious

Please tell me the kid in the white hat is her date.

@lucasuperior: Oh god, if it's the guy with the stupid hat in the second and third picture, I'd be frowing too.

It's so refreshing to see a Hollywood teenager behave like a normal teenager and not mugging away and whatever, trying to behave like some 30 year old. Savor it, Dakota. 30 will come soon enough.

rubyruby

Please let the guy in the white beanie be her date.

She looks a little bit miserable. Wonder who her date was?

Dude with the bepom-pommed knit cap is her date?

She looks about as happy as I was to go to my prom.

@Cheap Shot: All I ever wanted was to get laid at prom. It never happened. I wonder if my wife and I are too old to crash a prom and go fuck in the parking lot after wards.

Gee, I really hope that the guy in the white knit cap is her date.

@zibnchy: You should keep these thoughts to yourself.

@misslinda: I miss that guy every day.

@Richard Lawson: I can't wait to see the next post with that tag.

@Noun-Verb-7-Eleven: *suspicious* I can spell.

@inseptiv: I'd personally been more suspecious of the "bo" myself, concerned it may have had a previous affiliation with "tox."

Also, no matter how much coffee I've had, it always feels like it's too early in the day to deal with a Craig David reference. God bless.

@Hydroceph: I was the 'Guy who Got Drunk with Sober Ex-Girlfriend Driving Me in my Dad's Battle-ac!'

She didn't take the time to buy a special dress just for the occasion, though. She wore that dress to the Coraline premiere already. http://cdn.buzznet.com/media/jjr/headlines/2009/02/dakota-fanning-coraline-premiere....jpg

SarbaniAegisthus

@gooshwa: It's the Expeditionary Force for the invasion fleet from Planet Honkey.

@TableNine: I suppose if we're going to drop the definite article, we should capitalize it to 'Prom.' But then, in grad school, i was the Grammar Grouch, so what do i know.

@BadUncle: speaking as the parent of a not-quite-toilet-trained 5 year old (don't even ask), 'toilet' has become a verb, too.

@BadUncle: A (formerly best) friend's date was Sobbing In The Bathroom, so for some reason i was trying to be the Grown-Up and make people behave themselves. Such a waste of time.

@ShravantiBeetle: I'm from New England and I called it 'the prom' too. But then that was eventually beaten out of me by time and history and TV, so now I call it "going to prom." And it's sad.

@TableNine: It's our creeping globalization. Excuse me now, while I go to toilet.

I'm pretty sure that doesnt make you old, I'm pretty sure it makes you from New England. I went from thinking it was "the prom" to college in the midwest where I was made fun of for it.

ShravantiBeetle

is that one girl wearing a bedsheet? maybe it's my eyes but everyone be looking very white...

gooshwa

Wait - isn't Dakota Fanning like 12 or 13? How can she go to a prom??

Whatever. I wish her well. She's a great actor, and seems nice.

@Hydroceph: I was Passed Out Guy Face Down on the Beach! woo woo!

@TableNine: It's not the first time I've been surpised by disappearing articles. I couldn't figure why "a" was dropped from before BBQ. At the time, I thought it had migrated to the end of "bo select."

inseptiv

is there something wrong with her teeth?

chiquitabanana

The kid in the knit cap at prom is always gonna be the wild card.

@Richard Lawson: last tag = amazingtown

TableNine

Why was I not cc'd on the memo that went around America saying that we've made the collective decision to drop the article "the" from prom? Does that make me an old? If so, get off my damn lawn already.

Honestly, I don't know what hell is going on anymore.

TableNine

I work on a college campus. I wouldn't mind studying teen mating habits. Wait...does that make me sound pervy?

Her look in all of the pictures says "I know whomever is taking theses is just going to sell them"

katie

@Cheap Shot: Or just hold a prom for grown-ups who missed out. With blackjack. And hookers.

Wait - she's old enough for prom? Isn't she only like 14? 15 tops?

CoffeyWasHere

@resipsaloquacious:

chortles!

Poor Dakota... She's pretty, successful, doesn't seem like a brat. And she still got stuck going to the prom with a giant nerd dressed like the Good Humor Man.

City_Dater

@TableNine:

"What about prom, Blaine? WHAT ABOUT PROM?"

I need to whine that at least once a week, so thank you for providing an opportunity.

And no one from New England drops the "the" even now...

City_Dater

@robotwaste: That is actually one of the most original 'spice up our sex life' ideas I have ever heard. So Back To The Future!

lol, the white beanie kid sure looks like an asshole, eh?

SomatraCeleus

She's probably trying to preserve her last few moments of *somewhat* privacy before stepping into the cesspool of Twilight.

shehatesme

@BadUncle: She's 15, I obviously don't know how her school does it but at mine she could go if her date was a junior or senior.

@Hydroceph: Or have his head filled with boiling water since he's wearing a tea cozy.

WindowSeat

@Cheap Shot: I'm not planning on having my mother anywhere near that adventure, even though she was a homecoming queen back in the sixties.

She probably looks slightly nervous -rather than miserable - because she knows that although she's trying to be a normal teenager going to prom with her buddies she's painfully aware that the prom photographer is in fact planning to hawk these pictures to the press. Which of course (s)he did.

She might actually BE as normal teenager if she wasnt stalked even to her effin prom. Sorry. rant over.

joq8

@Motoko Kusanagi: Really? What thoughts should I keep to myself? The ones where I express caring and concern for a girl young enough to be my *granddaughter*? While I may not have expressed myself in my usual eloquent fashion, you should probably drag your mind out of the gutter.

Dakota is also on her high school cheerleader squad. So, yes, she is a normal teen. Perhaps this wasn't prom but the Spring Dance that anybody in any grade can go to and you don't need a date.

I love Dakota!!

mslewis

Sheesh, at least she has prom pictures.

reggattagirl

jesus - when i went to prom we had huge up-dos and floor length gowns; these kids look slick and way cooler.

HurricaneEyes

@robotwaste: god, no kidding, and with the guys i saw dancing with each other, it might've happened, too. Sigh. There but for cowardice went i.

@joq8: for what its worth, i doubt these were taken by a professional level camera. i guess that would make whomever took them more likely to sell them.

MoeGolden

Dakota Fanning doing something normal & regular like going to prom does not seem that strange to me. What seems very f---ing strange to me is that she took John Frusciante as her date. That's him in the knit cap, yeah?

SangitaGeben

what happened to people wearing gowns to prom? and getting their hair done? getting ready was the best part!

StanleyJellyfish

If she's 15 does that mean those other girls are 15 too? How the hell are those 15 year olds so much more *ahem* mature looking than when I was in high school? And I was in high school during this decade!