Letters to the Editor

The year in celebrity scandal From attention-seeking celebrities to roving nut jobs with automatic weapons to the self-deluded editors of mean-spirited gossip rags, this is the year that media-savvy lunatics took over the asylum. By Heather Havrilesky [2007-12-26]

• Celebrity Culture

  I find it very hard to defend the concept of 'celebrity privacy'. It's not like someone puts a gun to their heads and says 'you're gonna' be famous dammit'. If anything it's the opposite. How long do you think it would be when Brad Pitt/J-Lo/LaLohan et. al. lose their celebrity cache before they'd be the next guest in celebrity house, or whatever, on VH1. Not very long. The whole concept of 'leave them alone, there just like you and me' is laughable. Being a celebrity is a choice. You can choose not to do outrageous things to get attention, you can choose to stay home and play scrabble. You can chose to eat right and not be anorexic. But the don't, the crave the attention. If they wanted the big bucks, and the privacy, they would have gone to business school and worked on Wall St, where you make as much, or more, that a Hollywood actor, but no one outside your office knows your name. But they don't

  E.g, I recently saw the Kiera Nightly interview on CBS Sunday Morning recently, when she talked about suing a Newspaper for publishing non-doctored photos of her anorexic frame while claiming that she was shocked when she heard what they said about her. WTF, you don't like someone pointing out your health problems, yet you wanna be the next Meryl Streep.

  Or when Kirsten Dunst was talking about how Spiderman was so over yet she's making $20Mil per picture. How much you want to bet that in ten years she'll be like remember me, I was in Spiderman. I'm looking at you Rick Springfield.

  So when someone gushes over seeing so-and-so on Houston and Bleecker, you shouldn't be like, you're a psycho what's wrong wit you. I say move to Iowa or France or whatever if you, as a celebrity, don't want someone noticing you, god forbid.

  -- sockpuppet22
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