tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post3138857913601924660..comments2024-03-28T12:29:39.157-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: Safe somewhereFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-47695185102136946932013-02-17T23:19:23.625-07:002013-02-17T23:19:23.625-07:00I really enjoyed this post. At uni we had a topic...I really enjoyed this post. At uni we had a topic on celebrity and it pretty much covered the same questions you are asking. This idea of feeling like we know the celebrity on screen, really just shows how powerful a celebrity as a 'brand' is, because really we know nothing about them personally at all, yet there are many people who are highly influenced and love to align themselves with the brands their favourite celebrities wear, endorse, manufacture and so on. In doing so these people attach to their own personality the same qualities associated with the celebrity that endorses them - even when these qualities are far from the truth. E.g Tiger Woods endorsements for Nike before his scandal compared to afterwards.<br /><br />However I think nowadays the general public knows a lot more about a celebrity's personal life than in the past. I feel like peoples engrossed fascination with celebrities, particularly in their personal lives (especially during periods of crisis) has meant celebrities have less freedom..I don't think there are many popular celebrities nowadays who could escape the media limelight for a period of 40 years! A lot of today's fascination with celebrity gossip has to do with the basic fact that when the lives of someone as amazing as a celebrity turns upside down, we all just feel a little bit better about ourselves and our lives!Talyssahttp://www.thehiddenthimble.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-81885347167497972352013-02-13T11:11:38.977-07:002013-02-13T11:11:38.977-07:00Interesting, no, the impulse of some to "tell...Interesting, no, the impulse of some to "tell all", while others in the public eye eventually "Vant to be alone."<br /><br />For another time and another piece: interesting how some women, even those once sexpots, eventually go for the big white granny undies and cats. I mean, did they just happen to find lousy lovers? Were they jilted? Just plain "wore out" as they say in the South?<br /><br />To me, I would think, why not keep searching for that sweet nectar? Perhaps some are not so resilient. Also, some who are dolled up as starlets may just be frigid, but have a "smoldering" presence before the camera. I wonder about the vacuity that seems to escape the camera lens, especially if what we seek is the open-mouthed pout and vacant stare.<br /><br />Upon that canvas we may impose everything.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-38213754529260212112013-02-12T20:15:34.811-07:002013-02-12T20:15:34.811-07:00Funny thing with Dotty; she ran through her men in...Funny thing with Dotty; she ran through her men in her salad days; two brief marriages, on in the late Twenties, one in the late Forties with our boy Miller in the Thirties. After that?<br /><br />Nothing.<br /><br />I mean, for all we know she had some long-term arrangement with some Waikiki <i>kanuna</i>. Or not - maybe she found that she preferred her own company to the importunes of others. But we got nothin'; as you say, her anonymity was her power. <br /><br />Intriguing, this sniffing after strangers, but ultimately futile. We can only know as much of the secret hearts of others as they choose to reveal to us. And Dotty, bless her, chose not to reveal much.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-77178347682091817272013-02-12T08:06:33.649-07:002013-02-12T08:06:33.649-07:00p.s. --
It seems like more than a few female cele...p.s. --<br /><br />It seems like more than a few female celebs have ended up living a man-less life (maybe) in HI after their men done them wrong, no?<br /><br />Like you say, not a bad life.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-89462282501457092632013-02-11T23:43:43.596-07:002013-02-11T23:43:43.596-07:00While compelling, also so is our idea that we have...While compelling, also so is our idea that we have a right to know about celebrity. In truth, we only ever know what the grist mill puts out for our consumption.<br /><br />A quotation from the t.v. series dealing with computer sleuthing, Person of Interest:<br /><br /><b>Anonymity is true power.</b>Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.com