U.S. WARNS J. LO TO SHUT DOWN FRAGRANCE PLANT
Celebrity Fragrance Proliferation Raises New Concerns
In a strongly worded message from the U.S. State Department, the United States today warned singer-actress Jennifer Lopez to cease and desist manufacturing her new celebrity fragrance Glow immediately and forever.
The State Department message came in response to Ms. Lopezs audacious announcement last week that she would start producing a new celebrity fragrance in open defiance of international treaties curbing celebrity fragrance proliferation.
Specifically, Ms. Lopezs decision to start producing millions of bottles of Glow flies in the face of the Agreed Framework treaty negotiated by the Clinton administration, prohibiting so-called multi-talented performers from branching out into celebrity fragrance production.
With Ms. Lopezs announcement, pressure may be building within the Bush administration to take out her celebrity fragrance plant in a preemptive strike before Glow can be produced and shipped.
Concerns about celebrity fragrance proliferation had long been on the back burner, after the failure of dud perfumes produced by the likes of Cher, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Michael Jackson raised hopes that the spread of celebrity fragrances had been stopped or at least slowed down.
But the defiant decision by Ms. Lopez, coming on the heels of former movie star Elizabeth Taylors bold move to market a fragrance called Forever Elizabeth, is creating fresh jitters in celebrity fragrance anti-proliferation circles.
If J. Lo gets a celebrity fragrance, its only a matter of time before Kelly Osbourne and Justin Timberlake do, said Jean-Luc Broussard of the Center for Celebrity Fragrance Control in Brussels. If that happens, heaven help us all.
**** BOROWITZ REPORT ****
Celebrity Fragrance Proliferation Raises New Concerns
In a strongly worded message from the U.S. State Department, the United States today warned singer-actress Jennifer Lopez to cease and desist manufacturing her new celebrity fragrance Glow immediately and forever.
The State Department message came in response to Ms. Lopezs audacious announcement last week that she would start producing a new celebrity fragrance in open defiance of international treaties curbing celebrity fragrance proliferation.
Specifically, Ms. Lopezs decision to start producing millions of bottles of Glow flies in the face of the Agreed Framework treaty negotiated by the Clinton administration, prohibiting so-called multi-talented performers from branching out into celebrity fragrance production.
With Ms. Lopezs announcement, pressure may be building within the Bush administration to take out her celebrity fragrance plant in a preemptive strike before Glow can be produced and shipped.
Concerns about celebrity fragrance proliferation had long been on the back burner, after the failure of dud perfumes produced by the likes of Cher, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Michael Jackson raised hopes that the spread of celebrity fragrances had been stopped or at least slowed down.
But the defiant decision by Ms. Lopez, coming on the heels of former movie star Elizabeth Taylors bold move to market a fragrance called Forever Elizabeth, is creating fresh jitters in celebrity fragrance anti-proliferation circles.
If J. Lo gets a celebrity fragrance, its only a matter of time before Kelly Osbourne and Justin Timberlake do, said Jean-Luc Broussard of the Center for Celebrity Fragrance Control in Brussels. If that happens, heaven help us all.
**** BOROWITZ REPORT ****