I woke up this morning to Joyce Behar of “The View” being interviewed by my favorite Larry King. I was planning on going back to sleep cause it was just 5:30 in the morning when Larry asked Joyce about “this Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana” incident. That piqued my curiosity. I sat up and faced my laptop (which guards me while I sleep when dear husband is at work) and looked for the photos they were talking about. And of course, like always, Google never let me down.

So Miley was photographed by the famous Annie Leibowitz for the magazine, Vanity Fair, with her back naked and her front draped with a satin blanket, damped hair and all. The photograph is artsy. I love the composition. At first glance, it could be about a child “something”. “Something” being a word starting with a “P” and ending with an “E”. (And it’s not “parachute”.) It just so happens that it was Cyrus who posed as such.

It made me remember Brooke Shields when she was younger and she did “Blue Lagoon” and “Pretty Baby”. She had an “almost-bare” top in the former movie and a nude scene in the latter. She was only 14 and 12 in those, respectively. Well, there also was so much controversy about those during that time in the late 70s and early 80s. In fact, my mom didn’t allow us to watch Blue Lagoon cause she said it was not for kids. I think the movie scared her because I was the same age as Brooke then. And knowing that I had a boyfriend made her conjure ideas that I might just do what Brooke did – maroon myself on a desserted island with my boyfriend and have a baby. Ha. Ha. Ha.

Going back. Looking at the behind the scenes of that Vanity Fair shoot of Miley, I just wished that she and her parents stood by what they did and not blame Annie for the shoot. Or do a press release that Billy Ray, her father, was out of town when this happened and he would not have allowed the pose to come to be. That’s just bull! The behind the scene shots showed that Miley was even laughing and enjoying the whole thing and that her dad was there, posing also for some photos. This whole press release of her being embarassed about it is just so FAKE.

But their knee-jerk reaction is very “showbiz”-y. The “I do something and then deny that I had free reign in doing what I did when the public negatively reacts to it” thing. Just like they’re making Annie Leibowitz like a witch who noone can say “No” to or else be struck with her demonic wrath. And Annie was devious cause she had to wait till her parents stepped out and spent all that long time preparing for the shot. It was Annie’s fault that she was photographed that way. Such bull crap!

But this isn’t a tragedy (no matter how much Miley and her whole doo-wop project it to be). She’s a superstar. She’s earning millions of dollars.

Now, the rising food crisis, THAT’S a tragedy!