Celebrity “News”
September 6, 2006 by Laura | Trackback URI
From a recent FARK thread about the Suri Cruise photo on Vanity Fair’s cover -
I look forward to the day when Suri Cruise and Shiloh Jolie-Pitt meet on the final field of battle.
As a Celebrity Deathmatch fan, that’s just funny. But I do really wonder what the appeal is in following the lives of celebrities. Why do we fill our minds with trivia? (I’m not particularly interested in the personal lives of celebrities, but I have a knack for knowing their work and for recognizing celebrity voices. Why is that? It’s not deliberate - I just somehow absorb that information. Hmmm… could it be… the fact that of the 18-20 hours a day that I’m awake, maybe one hour of it is spent reading the bible or in prayer, and the other 17-19 are spent hearing the news, radio, or watching TV? Wow, mystery solved, and aren’t I the clever one?)
Well, as Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes, there is no new thing under the sun. AllahPundit’s Hot Air video recap of Katie Couric’s first night on the job includes the “Snapshots” segment which has an old news clip of Prince Charles as a baby, and segues into the Suri Cruise “story.” At least Prince Charles is a future head of state, and nominally newsworthy. In all likelihood, the best Suri Cruise can hope for is to not be like her parents. She’s not newsworthy at all, except that her parents are lunatics. But there’s a market for that kind of information, and it even includes mostly-innocent bystanders like me. The National Enquirer has gone mainstream, and Weekly World News - if the Democratic Underground, Daily Kos and the Connecticut primary is any indicator - is going mainstream.
Suri’s first words here:
http://revver.com/video/57310/20671