Everything That Glitters
I relaxed after dinner last night in my favorite chair, just staring at nothing, trying to recoup a little sanity after a week from Hell. Work has been a pirhana buffet with a great white appetizer for the last several weeks but like the birthing process, this too shall pass. Back to relaxation. My daughter had hit the button that brings alive the box filled with those alien signals from the broadcast networks. The long running syndicated show, Entertainment Tonight was playing on the screen and instead of whiling evening with a mindless self indulgence, I started watching what passes for entertainment news. How much can one person take in a week?
Now I love a great movie. One reason is that it is over in around two hours and you can buy it and rewatch it if you want. I really don't want to know about the actors lives outside the movies. It ruins the illusions and escapes provided by a well crafted theatre piece. The time I wasted watching ET was a parade of sound bites about various actors and the trials and tribulations surrounding their lives. Their prize story was about Lindsay Lohan and someone who had been in the same rehab facility she was currently inhabiting. What kind of horse hockey is that? I enjoy watching Lindsay Lohan in movies. Mean Girls was a fun show and the remake of Freaky Friday, although not a cinematic truimph, had good interaction between Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay. Now that Miss Lohan has issues with controlled substances, it allows these parasitic shows to make money from her misery.
The balance of ET was so memorable that I cannot remember who else was on. I realize that there are people out there who spend their entire lives living through other people. It is a shame to waste so much life on things that do not further you in any way. It comes down to worshipping someone because they are famous instead realizing that they are human and fallible and just like you. Maybe we enjoy watching the mighty fall because it makes us feel better about ourselves. If the famous fail, then we are better than them. But you have Lindsay Lohan who has not even begun to live her life, making the mistakes of youth and a nation that revels in those failures. It does not say much for our society.
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Cobb
Now I love a great movie. One reason is that it is over in around two hours and you can buy it and rewatch it if you want. I really don't want to know about the actors lives outside the movies. It ruins the illusions and escapes provided by a well crafted theatre piece. The time I wasted watching ET was a parade of sound bites about various actors and the trials and tribulations surrounding their lives. Their prize story was about Lindsay Lohan and someone who had been in the same rehab facility she was currently inhabiting. What kind of horse hockey is that? I enjoy watching Lindsay Lohan in movies. Mean Girls was a fun show and the remake of Freaky Friday, although not a cinematic truimph, had good interaction between Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay. Now that Miss Lohan has issues with controlled substances, it allows these parasitic shows to make money from her misery.
The balance of ET was so memorable that I cannot remember who else was on. I realize that there are people out there who spend their entire lives living through other people. It is a shame to waste so much life on things that do not further you in any way. It comes down to worshipping someone because they are famous instead realizing that they are human and fallible and just like you. Maybe we enjoy watching the mighty fall because it makes us feel better about ourselves. If the famous fail, then we are better than them. But you have Lindsay Lohan who has not even begun to live her life, making the mistakes of youth and a nation that revels in those failures. It does not say much for our society.
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Cobb
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