I choose the article by Donald Unger titled “Mary Olson: Drug-Addled Anorexic of Fine Young Cannibal?” for several reasons. First, I really like the Olson twins. Probably because I grew up watching Full House, and then continued to watch them on all their ABC Family Channel sitcoms. Also, I’m very into fashion, and I really like their unique sense of style, so I still follow the Olson twins via Vogue magazine and the like. But that’s not something I typically admit. Second, I think that they have class because they haven’t conformed to what the norm is for young girls in this country. Anyways, this title of the article intrigued me. While Mary-Kate Olson battle anorexia, I don’t believe she ever used drugs, and I couldn’t understand what cannibalism had to do with all of it. The beginning of the article really made me mad. It detailed Mary-Kate’s stay at a rehabilitation facility and constantly referred to her personal struggles. I am extremely disgusted with the media and magazines like US Weekly that do nothing but follow famous people around and give the details of their everyday life. I think that they are entitled to privacy just like everyone else, and TV shows like Entertainment Tonight, Celebrity Justice, etc. need to find a more constructive way to use up airtime. So, with that said, I almost quit reading the article, until I came to the part where the writer dares to say the Olson twins are not twins, but actually triplets. There was a third sister, named Kate, that suffered from a club-foot. In the first three seasons of Full House, the foot was not an issue because the girls were not old enough to walk. But, after the third season, it was decided Kate was not suited for the part, so in order to solve the problem, Ashley and the former “Mary” Olson ate their sister. Further evidence supports the theory because in the first season of the show, the names Ashley, Mary and Kate were shown in the credits, with no punctuation separating them. By the fourth season, a hypen had been placed between the names Mary and Kate, supporting the fact that the three had become two. The article goes on to say that the guilt “Mary Kate” Olson felt led her to anorexia. It ends as a cliff-hanger, letting the reader decide what they think of the alleged “Kate Olson.” The author is a gossip columnist for both the Wall Street Journal and Star Magazine, and my only hope is that nobody takes it seriously. I found the article entertaining just because it was so rediculous, and a little less serious than everything else I looked at on the site. I’m not into poetry or journals or really abstract thinking, so I there was not much else that interested me. Here is the link to the article:
Mary Olson: Drug-Addled Anorexic or Fine Young Cannibal? by Donald Unger
September 22nd, 2005 · No Comments
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