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I found the results of this new study interesting. No matter how much changes in our culture, there are still some traditional values that don't change.
Best Actress Oscar destroys marriages: study (http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Best+Actress+Oscar+destroys+marriages+study/4207033/story.html - broken link)
Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and Carnegie Mellon University studied more than 751 Oscar nominees from 1936 to 2010 and found the marriages of Best Actress winners were significantly shorter than those of either their fellow female nominees or their Best Actor counterparts.
I hope tax payer dollars didnt fund that study. Its a long stretch to try and draw a parallel between celebrities and commoners especially involving marriage and divorce.
I hope tax payer dollars didnt fund that study. Its a long stretch to try and draw a parallel between celebrities and commoners especially involving marriage and divorce.
Not sure how the study by the two universites was funded. But it does seem to indicate this is not "celebrity vs commoner" problem.
From the article:
You would expect that these rarefied elites are maybe perhaps immune to some of the patterns we see in normal people, but we didn’t see that. The differences are less striking than one might have expected.
Traditional gender roles favour men who make more money and have more important jobs than their wives, she said. But when a woman gets a huge career and salary boost, such as by winning an Oscar, that can cause tension in the marriage.
Traditional gender roles favour men who make more money and have more important jobs than their wives, she said. But when a woman gets a huge career and salary boost, such as by winning an Oscar, that can cause tension in the marriage.
It'll have even bigger impact on their marriages! And not so much because of the money aspect, but because they're vainer and way more competitive than your average bear.
Immersing yourself in a branch of society that traditionally has no real compunction maintaining a stable, faithful marriage (i.e. the filmmaking industry) seems to be at least as likely a cause as earnings imbalances. And if you're a super successful actress, you're likely more immersed in the culture than less successful ones. Being under a microscope can be hard on marriages, and nobody's more in the public eye in Hollywood than the ultrasuccessful (although the trainwrecks come close).
The more telling thing to me is that overall, the celebrities who don't live in L.A. or other fame meccas, and who keep a low profile living more off the grid with spouses (who often are not celebrities themselves, and therefore further removed from the industry) are the ones who tend to have the longest marriages and relationships.
Immersing yourself in a branch of society that traditionally has no real compunction maintaining a stable, faithful marriage (i.e. the filmmaking industry) seems to be at least as likely a cause as earnings imbalances. And if you're a super successful actress, you're likely more immersed in the culture than less successful ones. Being under a microscope can be hard on marriages, and nobody's more in the public eye in Hollywood than the ultrasuccessful (although the trainwrecks come close).
The more telling thing to me is that overall, the celebrities who don't live in L.A. or other fame meccas, and who keep a low profile living more off the grid with spouses (who often are not celebrities themselves, and therefore further removed from the industry) are the ones who tend to have the longest marriages and relationships.
This all started with horse faced Hillery Swank getting a statue. Then dumping her husband. But Babs has statue/s, and James Brolin is perfectly happy being her eye Candy.
My question is, when they "studied" this did they count people who have been married 5 times, and count them 5 times? and then weigh their 5 1-2 year marriages against guys like Bob Hope and Bing Crosby?
This all started with horse faced Hillery Swank getting a statue. Then dumping her husband. But Babs has statue/s, and James Brolin is perfectly happy being her eye Candy.
Actually, it didn't. If you read the article, they studied actresses all the way back to the 1930's - people like Katherine Hepburn.
And BS had her Oscar BEFORE she married James Brolin, (who has made a lot of money of his own over the years). This study was about women who were married at the time they won the Oscar.
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