He also ran Starlight House, a home for orphaned and foster girls. Her father owned half of the popular rock and roll record label, Starlight Music. Here is the story of Jem, so far: When her father dies, Jerrica Benton is left with a lot of responsibilities. Jem may be a great role model, but her show is starting to falter as it makes its tertiary rounds. The only question left is - how cool is that? The answer, naturally, is slightly more complicated. For outing #2, we get half of Series 3 in the every evolving universe of Jem, her band and the basics of being a multimedia luminary. Thanks to Rhino, we have had the ability to revisit this series in complete season box sets. And when it finally fell onto TV screens everywhere, Jem proved the anomaly that destroyed the rule.

Jem and the Holograms were Josie and the Pussycats minus the Hanna-Barbera desire to turn everything into a Tom and Jerry battle royale. Besides, the cute as a button babe at the center of the conceit was goody two shoes enough to avoid any attachment to either the depraved or its rival in repulsion, the Satanic salute. Nothing prior to the greed grind of the 80s suggested that heavy metal or the pure power of punk lent itself to warm and fuzzy cross-promotion with a Happy Meal manic public, Perhaps, since the notion was knocked-up during the mid-80s, when New Wave was proving that even the wussiest wimp could cross dress his way into superstadom, the plaything producer didn't give the power chord parameters of their decision a second outside consulting contract. So it seems odd that Hasbro would decide to market a new line of adolescent toys based in the booze, breasts and bass solos of rock and roll. Chocking on their own vomit, forgetting the basics of human hygiene and fornicating with a daredevil attitude toward STDs, paternity and sexual orientation, your groupie grazing band of beer-swillers seem the unlikeliest of role models (clear cut cautionary example? Absolutely!). But for pure down and dirty debauchery, for saying yes to another excess over and over again, the fey frontman or grim guitar hero stands scum and scurvy above all others in the race for the reprobate. Sure, you could argue that an adult film fluffer soils more than just the sheets every time they 'perform', and lawyers lack even the basic ethos to avoid looking like jaded jackasses whenever they arrive on the scene. It's hard to imagine a life raunchier than that of a rock star.

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