People are starving in this world. Homeless people live in this community and froze in Monday's snow and ice.
But actress Laura Elena Harring of "Mulholland Drive" can afford a $1 million pair of pumps. There is just something wrong with that.
According to USA Today, Harring, who was not nominated for a single category, was the most expensively dressed woman at the Academy Awards, wearing not only the $1 million Stuart Weitzman platinum and diamond stiletto heels, but also a $20 million dollar diamond necklace and a highly-priced strapless Georgio Armani gown.
Who is she again?
I don't claim to know Hollywood, but I have never even heard of this actress. If she was Julia Roberts, maybe she could wear this sickeningly over-priced garb - maybe.
I am sure Julia would not be that selfish. She is a class act.
Not Harring. I'm sure she thinks she is the envy of little girls everywhere, after being the most expensively dressed woman, and all. But I'll tell you what I think.
I think she is disgustingly selfish and inconsiderate to wear that on national television where people in a dipping economy are watching.
And she wasn't even nominated for anything.
College graduates are going to get into the work force fighting nip and tuck. My mom is working the graveyard shift because she cannot find any other job.
This woman, however, has the nerve to wear a $500,000 on each of her little red-toe-nailed feet. She isn't the only one wearing too much money on her body, but the shoes just cross the line.
Hollywood stars throw Benjamins around like trinkets at Mardi Gras. I could buy 66,711 pairs or sandals at Payless at $14.99 a pair for the price she paid for that pair of pumps.
And you know she is only going to wear them once. Next Tuesday they will be out of style. And we can't have that, now can we?
The shoes are not even that cute. I mean really, for $1 million, they better have more than an ankle strap and a tear-drop trinket. It would have been absolutely hilarious if one of the straps would have broken. Maybe she did get what she paid for because they didn't. That, however, is not the point.
The point is that one of the diamonds on that pair of high heels could pay my college tuition. The necklace adorning her thin, little neck could feed millions of starving children in Africa.
Still, she sure did look mighty pretty in that outfit, didn't she? And that's all that matters.
After watching that dollar-fest Sunday night, I am going to try to help my best friend find a job, although no businesses are hiring.
I may just go grab a snack from Arby's. Then again, maybe not.
There's this little dress at Von Maur I have been eying - and buying that dress is much more important than eating.
Write to Rachel at rachelperkins_25@yahoo.com
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