Celebrity Blogs! Is there Anything they Can't do?
Sometimes I get SO sick of our celebrity culture. And I LIKE celebrities! When someone who digs movies as much as I do gets tired of them, you know something has gone over the edge.
Have any of you read any webchats with celebrities or "A day in the life" profiles in publications? They are usually self indudulgent pap. Now the agents of the smart ones will have someone help them. The less savvy will try and write a few posts and might be seen as "down home" but also might be seen as lame.
Exhibit One. Winona Ryder. Saw her on The Jay Leno Show. She went from an actress I really liked to someone I stopped enjoying.
There are few, whose thoughts I'd actually like to hear from: David Mamet, for example. If you haven't seen Spartan, rent it.
Spartan Val Kilmer in a comeback role and Veronica Mars! Mr. Mamet did a great job on that movie. Mr. Spocko says check it out!
It's a chilling gripping movie and one of my favorites from last year.
Nora Ephron because she is funny and a good writer. Walter Cronkite because some people might like his take on this administration and listen to him. James Fallows who I think is always interesting.
Hopefully this new group blog with "notables" might attract attention to a different view of things, but it it does I expect the wingnuts to come out in force and diminish, downplay and deride the work of these celebrities. Sadly for every sharp Janeane Garafalo there are plenty of not fully informed people who might be posting. If they make strong statements against the administration they will be attacked and mocked like the Dixie Chicks were.
Maybe it will devolve to non-interesting, offend-no-one trivia like a bunch of blogs I've surfed over. Only their trivia will involve glamorous parties and other "bold face names".
I think this just saddens me the way that it saddens me knowing the best voice talents don't get jobs in animation anymore. "Starring the voice of..." Now I can't get lost in an animated story anymore because I'm constantly reminded this is really Eddie Murphy.
I want MORE substance, less celebrity. I want our press to ignore the trials of Michael Jackson and write about the trials of Saddam and the people responsible for the disaster in Abu Ghraib. I'm not against entertainment, and I think these people have a right to say what they think, but sometimes it all seems like so much bread and circuses for the uneducated masses.
Arianna Huffington, the columnist and onetime candidate for governor of California, is about to move blogging from the realm of the anonymous individual to the realm of the celebrity collective.I doubt if any of these blogs will take on any more vitality than the official websites of celebrities. The level of detail will be interesting for people, but as Sage Potatohead reminds me "mystery and glamour are essential for some movie stars to remain movie stars."
She has lined up more than 250 of what she calls "the most creative minds" in the country to write a group blog that will range over topics from politics and entertainment to sports and religion.
Have any of you read any webchats with celebrities or "A day in the life" profiles in publications? They are usually self indudulgent pap. Now the agents of the smart ones will have someone help them. The less savvy will try and write a few posts and might be seen as "down home" but also might be seen as lame.
Exhibit One. Winona Ryder. Saw her on The Jay Leno Show. She went from an actress I really liked to someone I stopped enjoying.
There are few, whose thoughts I'd actually like to hear from: David Mamet, for example. If you haven't seen Spartan, rent it.
Spartan Val Kilmer in a comeback role and Veronica Mars! Mr. Mamet did a great job on that movie. Mr. Spocko says check it out!
It's a chilling gripping movie and one of my favorites from last year.
Nora Ephron because she is funny and a good writer. Walter Cronkite because some people might like his take on this administration and listen to him. James Fallows who I think is always interesting.
Hopefully this new group blog with "notables" might attract attention to a different view of things, but it it does I expect the wingnuts to come out in force and diminish, downplay and deride the work of these celebrities. Sadly for every sharp Janeane Garafalo there are plenty of not fully informed people who might be posting. If they make strong statements against the administration they will be attacked and mocked like the Dixie Chicks were.
Maybe it will devolve to non-interesting, offend-no-one trivia like a bunch of blogs I've surfed over. Only their trivia will involve glamorous parties and other "bold face names".
I think this just saddens me the way that it saddens me knowing the best voice talents don't get jobs in animation anymore. "Starring the voice of..." Now I can't get lost in an animated story anymore because I'm constantly reminded this is really Eddie Murphy.
I want MORE substance, less celebrity. I want our press to ignore the trials of Michael Jackson and write about the trials of Saddam and the people responsible for the disaster in Abu Ghraib. I'm not against entertainment, and I think these people have a right to say what they think, but sometimes it all seems like so much bread and circuses for the uneducated masses.
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