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| Daniel Hernandez |
Another tragedy, this time in Tucson outside a Safeway supermarket and regular people, some even senior citizens, showed us how to do it.
Kind of goes against everything we learn about our Hollywood superheroes, buffed and ready to play the part. You know the ones that the media parades in front of us daily in our celebrity driven culture. Can't be the plain looking folks. Got to be the pretty ones.
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| Patricia Maisch |
Real people are often modest, yet unlike the movie stars, who talk about whoring around and drug rehab, they’re the ones with the stories to tell. Ironically, the masses ogle the famous, carefully studying their every move. And when the rich ones stumble, as they often do, the regular folks inhale a long breath, and as if dealing with a problem child, patiently lift the famous onto their shoulders. Again and again and again.
But we can't let the talented ones fall. Brett Favre? Lindsay Lohan? Athletes and Hollywood's shiniest are too gifted, too special, not to coddle. Or that's what we believe.
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| Britney Spears |
So when Britney Spears recorded her new song, "Infectious," this week after an extended hiatus due to her many personal crises, it climbed to number one in just a few minutes. Had to be a masterpiece, I thought, and those others singers working for years on their tunes were non deserving scumbags.
Just like those folks in Tucson, who probably saved many lives by tackling the gunman and disarming him. Their names will fade in a week or two. Merely a blip on the radar screen.
If you ask me, they’re lucky to get their fifteen minutes of fame, and we’re lucky to get back to our manufactured gods and goddesses with all those gorgeous faces.
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