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Help! Mom! Hollywood's in My Hamper!

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I appreciate what the author is trying to accomplish, and I can't say I know how I would relate the evils of Hollywood's values, or lack thereof, to children between four and eight years old.

That said, I found the story disappointing because it consumed page after page but didn't really go anywhere. One parody of a celebrity after another appears in a child's bedroom closet and talks children into buying ridiculous clothing items for large amounts of money. The children find out at the end that they have a lot of ridiculous clothing, no money, no more babysitting job, and thus they can't buy what they really wanted to buy in the first place.

It's a narrow, repetitive story with an anticlimactic ending. I guess I just expected more since I own the first book in this "Help, Mom.." series and it seemed to deal with liberals in a much broader, though stereotypical, way than this book dealt with Hollywood.

First off Im a liberal, lets get that out of the way.

Second off I got this book not for my conservative relatives or anything like that, this was a straight up gag gift. The fact that anyone would seriously read this to a child is screwed up in the head.

As a gag gift its great. It makes a good head turner whenever people see it, not to mention a good conversation starter.

The people who wrote this along with those that take this seriously are just as bad as creationists (well, their probably one in the same).

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught

- Oscar Hammerstein (damn librul)

The reviews posted by the "I Hate America Crowd" were enough to compel me to buy this book! Good job! Way to go!

. . . to the first "Help! Mom!" book, taking on the subject of the Hollywood Elite, and their influence on what passes for "pop culture" today.

The heroines of this book learn (the hard way) that following the latest trends to come out of Hollywood is not only futile -- but silly -- and that many of the so-called "Hollywood Elites" do take precisely the attitudes which are parodied in this book.

Not quite as funny as the first book (a not uncommon problem with sequels) but nevertheless well worth the purchase price.

As an aside, the tone of many of the reviews for both this book and its predecessor (to say nothing of the tenor of the comments) makes me want to suggest a follow-up title, to wit: "Help! Mom! The Secular Progressives Have No Sense Of Humor!"

Highly recommended!

My kids loved this book and I loved it because it gave them a new perspective on Hollywood. I think this book is very beneficial for any child of any age. I would recommend it to anyone who has children.

This book is another example of how Conservatives are finally beginning to get their message out to mainstream audiences. Along with Talk Radio and the Internet, people who are interested in comparing political philosophies are finally able to do so. After a 50-year monopoly on what they call "The News," the Left is in a panic over peoples' ability to gain access to information and points of view which haven't been censored by The Smart Set at The New York Times or CNN. Kudos to Katharine Debrecht and others like her who support open debate on important issues which affect us all.

Don't read this book if you don't have a sense of humor. Angry left wingers who read the book will feel like writing reviews that are actually longer than the book itself. I found the book to be quite funny!

This book was a gift to my wife and I from a Hollywood actress who has had and still has a great career. She is concerned, like all thinking Americans, with the way we take seriously the hair brained exhortations of the Hollywood left. Sadly too many young people (older ones too) worship at the altar of celebrity and will believe anything that today's generation of uneducated, unwashed and foul mouthed film and music stars spew out on a regular basis. As Laura Ingraham would say, "Shut up and entertain"!

The book is aimed at children, however all ages will love it. It is told in a clever style with great art and it is fun to guess which one of Hollywood's sickos are being satirized. There are lessons here about how none of us should make idols of people who would be homeless today if they didn't have sympathetic liberals running the film and recording studios.

This doesn't mean that there are not excellent actors and actresses and singers in the media who do their jobs faithfully and who love our country and God. They don't get enough publicity. It would be hoped that Hollywood is getting the message as we are getting more family films. Hollywood had to take notice as it has been losing money banking on the so called loud mouthed stars who, like the British once said about us, are over paid, over sexed and over here.

This is a book we want all our grandchildren to read and we will do our part to get it in circulation. May God bless you always Katharine DeBrecht. You tell it like it is.

It's ironic that the moral of this story is to "think for yourself" when DeBrecht dutifully and unimaginatively parrots every dittohead cliche in the book. Pundits who bash Hollywood are a dime a dozen on FOX News and talk radio, and DeBrecht follows witlessly in their footsteps. Seriously, who is the audience for this book? Her narrow political agenda is far too simpleminded for any thinking adult, and is of even less use to young children. And juvenile putdowns like the name "Larry Queen" make it sound like the book was written by a second-grader, not for them.