Do you ever feel sick about celebrities?

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Is it morally acceptable to pay, say, a football player millions, or an actor millions, or ANYONE millions, when poverty is so widespread? Where do you stand? What would you do if you could?

Remember: Is David Beckham really worth more than some small countries?!!?

― Ensemble Ed (Ensemble Ed), Thursday, 9 October 2003 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I think celebrities deserve to make wads and wads of cash. They carry so much hope for the rest of us. That said, I did once have an allergic reaction to Andy Garcia.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

11835 West Olympic Boulevard

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0670891622.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

is that book as great as I've heard?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

They wouldn't be paid millions if people didn't pay millions to the employers of said celebrities to see them...

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes Ally, but I'm not exactly defending the rights of anyone to earn 7 or 8 or 9 figure salaries when the world is in the surrent shape it is...

― Ensemble Ed (Ensemble Ed), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

but 6 figures - that's hunky dory

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I once broke out in hives after a Nick Nolte & Pistachio Salad, but I think that was more due to the pistachios.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

You are failing to grasp the use of examples. Six figures? I'm not sure high 5 figures can be justified until world poverty and a decent welfare state are sorted out.

― Ensemble Ed (Ensemble Ed), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Bret Somers gave me mono

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Reading heat gives me the feeling of having eaten too much ice cream in one go (slightly sick, cold feeling at bottom of stomach). I don't bloody care if someone saw Jordan at a cash point. So I don't read it at all now, even if I am stuck on the tube and someone has left a copy on the seat next to me.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

cinniblount, that book is a lot of fun. Definitely worth reading.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel sick about lots of things in the world. But I don't blame the celebrities, I blame the stupid thick f*cks who buy into the cult of celebrity.

But what can you do? I don't pay any money towards football (I don't attend games, or buy tickets, or buy merchandise or watch television when it's on thus being exposed to their adverts) - so what can I do to protest, beyond boycotting products that sponsor football, maybe?

And where do we stop? Should actors really be paid that much? Honestly! How about pop stars? That's the main reason I wouldn't buy a top 40 single - not because I'm an indie snob, but because these people and their record companies are overpaid anyway. Argh.

This thread makes me feel sick. Thanks.

― kate (kate), Friday, 10 October 2003 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I feel most sick about celebrities when people vote for them in mass numbers. Bleeeeargh!

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 10 October 2003 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

True.

(Except for Peter from Fame Academy. Now there is a celebrity I can get behind. Literally. ROWR!)

― kate (kate), Friday, 10 October 2003 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

LIterally?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 10 October 2003 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate has a handsome strap-on.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 10 October 2003 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

He hath no ass. He is inferior to Julian in that regard.

― kate (kate), Friday, 10 October 2003 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"If the people who Cintra writes about continue to appear in public after the publication of this book, it can only be because they cannot read."

It is that good. Not enough surfing, though

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 10 October 2003 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

the cult and concept of celebrity is much like that of a star. we're now nearing the end of the 'giant' or 'supergiant' phase. supernova, white dwarf phases still to come. then the notion of celebrity itself will exist purely as an invisible singularity, or black hole, absorbing everyone and everything to the point of nothingness. yay.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 10 October 2003 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

"I was at one of the women's figure-skating finals during the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, where twenty-eight girls, most of whom were nervous and janky and fell down once or twice, slunk off to joylessly watch their bad numbers roll up on the screen like people waiting for biopsy results. Nothing is more depressing than seeing a girl in a tiny dress fall on her ass really hard to a gluey George Winston-ish New Age piano number, then get up and smile her way through the rest of the set, holding the crying fit in her throat like a dead rat until she can get away from the cameras. Everybody claps really hard at the end of such a program, because they know the girl wants to eat broken lightbulbs."

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

(because I was watching the gymnastics yesterday, and remembered that not everyone in the world had read the Wilson book, so my work is not done.)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

David Beckhams wages are nowhere near the amount of money it takes to run a country.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I say fair play to people who earn vast amounts of cash. Course it's not fair, but they must make back more than they earn, otherwise they wouldn't earn it, right?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 27 October 2003 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Mariah Carey says otherwise. Or at least her record company does.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 27 October 2003 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Beckham is the only thing holding this country together

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Beckham and the weak electric bonds between atoms.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

oh and the ley and null line junctions, and the Ueffington white horse

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Mariah Carey "earned" the money by spreading her legs open. Ta-daaa.

I don't feel incredibly sick about most celebrities. I just choose not to focus in on them. I seriously doubt I'd get all squeal-happy and giddy if I were to run into a famous Hollywood actor, definitely. However, if I were to meet a musical artist I particularly adored listening to (e.g. Richard Barone or Bryan Henderson), I would probably act like a little teenybopper.

I do actively avoid watching any celebrity tabloid programs, because I get disgusted by what gets talked about and how the tiniest bit of celebrity "news" gets treated as importantly as, say, a riot in Calcutta. I also hate the way all the celebrities are fawned over and treated as though they were all kings and queens. I don't see any problems with celebs getting paid millions of dollars a year, though. (But I do sometimes find it disgusting how much free stuff they get, even though I kinda understand the motivations behind that.) I suppose that'd be the unabashed capitalist in me.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ten years pass...

brad pitt is 50 years old, what the fuck??

― brimstead, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 01:45 (ten years ago)

i mean, he's 50 and a half.

― brimstead, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 01:46 (ten years ago)

urrgh happy half a birthday, bread patt

― Mark G, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 07:22 (ten years ago)

http://descherpeblik.nl/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/bad-pritt.jpg

― StanM, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 07:48 (ten years ago)

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