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How nice of Clarissa to explain it all. When she knows nothing.
Really, an ad hominim attack? An instant analysis of who I am and what I do? Seriously, you are clearly outclassed here. This is discussion at a higher level. Discussion where you actually have to say something. The other stuff belongs in the talkback columns on "Ain't It Cool News."
Clarissa's "frenching" also is a reminder that people quite often hate in others what they hate in themselves. Which might explain a lot of this celebrity nonsense. Having raised people like Mel Gibson and Britney Spears high on the celebrity pedestal, removing all imperfections from their visages, it must anger celebrity syncophants to see that these idols are as flawed, racist, and dissolute as they are.
All this was said, with much better and elegant language than I can muster, in the book "Intimate Strangers: The Process of Celebrity" by Richard Schickel. He also touched on assassins, both of celebrities and Presidents, in his exploration of what this celebrity nonsense is all about.
