And then you have the rest of the Hollywood rabble, who like to appear “brave” to their peers and equally fawning corporate media, whenever they adopt and pay lip service to the latest industry-sanctioned fashionable cause. Show up at a well-covered public charity event, throw a few bucks around, try not to sound too stupid (that’s where those acting workshops REALLY pay off!) and let the publicist take it from there.

On the other hand, what they relish even more than this bought and paid for “respectability”, is the appearance of “rebellion”. It’s extremely important to the more shallow and egocentric of Hollywood’s reptiles, that they be looked upon as “edgy”, even slightly dangerous – a Rebel in The Grand Hollywood Tradition. This faux rebel act is what’s known in the real world as “a douche bag”.