Tuesday, January 11, 2005
At a time when mother nature seems to be lashing out at California (heavy rains, mudslides, a 25-foot!!!! boulder on a highway in Malibu) and the Indian Ocean region, news about Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt seems immaterial.
Okay, I had to look up how to spell her last name becuase I didn't know it took one "n" despite the fact that newspapers, TV networks -- and therefore, everyone else -- are spending a great deal of time, effort and expense to explore a relationship that no one, except those two people, can possible have any knowledge.
The popular theory is that because each is a beautiful, successful actor that they should have been happy together for years to come. Seems logical, right? At least, the traits of the characters they have played in movies and on TV would suggest as much.
And that's where people make their mistake. It bears repeating that what you see of your stars doesn't mean that's who and what they are. They are actors playing roles, reading lines written by writers seeking to tell a story so they can be paid by producers who want to sell advertising or tickets. Writers can't write out the script for their life together. TV tabloids can't explain what it's like to live with one or the other of them.
No one knows their relationship more than they can describe your relationships or mine. Looking in from the outside yields a false perspective, but it seems to be the one everyone wants to accept as reality.
Now people lament how they had hoped to see how beautiful the children of these two beautiful people would have been. It's not like two other beautiful people ever had children before. Well, they weren't stars. Were Ricky and Lucy beautiful people back when they had Little Ricky? (They really worked hard to come up with that name.) Lots of beautiful couples who are not famous have children each day. They just don't get tabloid headlines or Regis and Kelly time. Therefore, they don't exist. None of us do. We are represented in the world through the stars and their innane comments in pre-planned interviews on Letterman or Leno or the new guy whose name is, well, not famous -- yet.
As tired as I am of tsunami video and stories of lives destroyed, I'd gladly welcome more coverage of that or the California rains than another minute of speculation or discussion about two people who I will never meet and except for when they are in a movie or on a TV show I am watching have absolutely nothing to do with me or my life. They aren't people I want to meet, and, most importantly, they aren't people worth any of my time. Enough already!
Okay, I had to look up how to spell her last name becuase I didn't know it took one "n" despite the fact that newspapers, TV networks -- and therefore, everyone else -- are spending a great deal of time, effort and expense to explore a relationship that no one, except those two people, can possible have any knowledge.
The popular theory is that because each is a beautiful, successful actor that they should have been happy together for years to come. Seems logical, right? At least, the traits of the characters they have played in movies and on TV would suggest as much.
And that's where people make their mistake. It bears repeating that what you see of your stars doesn't mean that's who and what they are. They are actors playing roles, reading lines written by writers seeking to tell a story so they can be paid by producers who want to sell advertising or tickets. Writers can't write out the script for their life together. TV tabloids can't explain what it's like to live with one or the other of them.
No one knows their relationship more than they can describe your relationships or mine. Looking in from the outside yields a false perspective, but it seems to be the one everyone wants to accept as reality.
Now people lament how they had hoped to see how beautiful the children of these two beautiful people would have been. It's not like two other beautiful people ever had children before. Well, they weren't stars. Were Ricky and Lucy beautiful people back when they had Little Ricky? (They really worked hard to come up with that name.) Lots of beautiful couples who are not famous have children each day. They just don't get tabloid headlines or Regis and Kelly time. Therefore, they don't exist. None of us do. We are represented in the world through the stars and their innane comments in pre-planned interviews on Letterman or Leno or the new guy whose name is, well, not famous -- yet.
As tired as I am of tsunami video and stories of lives destroyed, I'd gladly welcome more coverage of that or the California rains than another minute of speculation or discussion about two people who I will never meet and except for when they are in a movie or on a TV show I am watching have absolutely nothing to do with me or my life. They aren't people I want to meet, and, most importantly, they aren't people worth any of my time. Enough already!
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