My Thoughts on MK & Ash:

Call me an anti-pop culture party pooper, but somehow I just cannot bring myself to understand America’s obsession with a certain pair of blond, identical twins.

Children, teens, and adults seem to flock almost religiously to sights of MK and Ash which causes me to wonder, what is so enticing about this pair in the first place?

Now, I am not a complete cynic when it comes to these child stars. The Olsen’s rise to super stardom started out on what I would consider a fresh and healthy trend.

No one can deny that Michelle, played by both the girls in Full House, was suited perfectly for her role as the cute, but smart mouthed little sis.

However, now that the twins have grown up, I wonder if their acting abilities have improved or even changed since their days as two-year-olds?

The twins are nineteen, yet they still base their acting on cute poses and cleverly worded scripts. I beg, “Where is the emotion?” and “When will you learn how to act?”

It was just about the time that Mary Kate and Ashley finished their movie, Billboard Dad, that I began to see their ridiculous nature.

Passport to Pairs was the clincher in this somewhat insignificant realization of mine. The moment Mary Kate pretended to imitate the French by saying, “Zee American cooking, it tastes like du caka poo poo.” I knew that I would never understand the appeal of these couture clad twins.

When the Olsen’s days of making preteen love stories finally came to a close, I thought that America was in the clear. I wrongly believed that we might not longer have to watch the sisters parade across the big screen with perfect haircuts, flocks of boys, and those ridiculous close mouthed, lip-puckering smiles plastered across their faces.

Suddenly, instead of only catching peeks of the twins on the screen, I was bombarded with their image in magazines, on articles of clothing, in book mini series, and even Barbies.

It is difficult to pick up a People Magazine without catching sight of Mary Kate caring a Starbucks coffee, an oversized purse, and some shabby looking outfit that cost a ton despite efforts to look impromptu and relaxed.

The girls fly all over the world shooting movies, meeting with clothing designers about their fashion brand, and spending millions of dollars living the good life.

I wonder what they have done to warrant success. To me they seem only to be the best networkers in Hollywood. Somehow, they have convinced the world of their greatness by surrounding themselves with people who actually know how to act.