Remember when there used to be real movie stars and celebrities? And we loved them... not because they behaved badly, but because they entertained us and gave cinematic joy.
But then celebrity salaries started climbing into the tens of millions for movies that basically sucked and to compensate theaters were forced to charge $10 admission for those same sucky movies and so we all stayed home and watched TV but then the writers all went on strike and the networks just laughed and gave birth to reality tv and suddenly we were forced to watch a grown man walk bare ass around an island and eat rice?
And we cared.
Well all that caring has done nothing more than bring forth the supremely weird and squicky world of Reality Star and instead of just being oddities who would eat goat balls or marry a rich fella, they took over.
Are you happy, World?
Ripped from today's headline... famous for being famous.
Levi Johnston... I can haz ur nekkid menz parts?
Kate Gosselin... Will u be mah movie starz?
Shauna Sands... Show me ur grrlie bitz.
Octomon - I haz ur diet tips?
Ah for the days of Katherine Hepburn...
While you can't deny there is a lot of junk reality TV out there, there are still some entertaining and even educational reality shows that we can all learn from! I think CMT's show World's Strictest Parents is definitely one of those. To go along with the reality show about "unruly" teens sent to live with "strict" parents for a week, WSP has come out with a website, www.cmtworldsstrictestparents.com, as a fun and fancy free forum for parents to get some help from the "parental survival guide", share their own personal stories, and interact with fun games, weekly polls, and even a sweepstakes! It's a great tool for any parent - either to get some advice or just to have some fun. Check it out!
Pfft! I'm the world's strictest parent. Can't you tell from the way I'm trying to get Lindsay Lohan to behave?
to be fair, when i was growing up there were a lot of people who were famous for things very few remembered...e.g the gabor sisters or really, any guest who appeared on the merv griffin show .
in super-efficient 21st century fashion, we've just removed the last .01% of talent that used to be required to be famous...
"I get naked. That's what I do." Brilliant.