do you care about celebrities?

"care about celebrities" defined as caring if they get divorced or whatever, watch tmz, care about what they do in their personal lives, think about charlie sheen, etc.

I don't care enough to follow them on Twitter but I'm vaguely amused by antics here and there.

I'D LIKE TO SAY NO, BUT:

Clearly the fact that I've commented on the Charlie Sheen thread puts that to shame.

I can easily giggle at Charlie Sheen sized problems but no, I don't care. Maybe if it was the 70s I'd worry that a great actor like Martin Sheen would go off the edge, but no-one today seems to give me similar reactions.

"Care" as in "pay attention to"? Absolutely. "Care" as in "concerned for their welfare"? Only if it's a celebrity who also makes good art, or who does exciting thing on a field of play.

No not really. People ridiculing them or being obsessed with mocking their stupid behaviour annoys me more than people worshipping them (does anyone worship celebrities anymore?)

I glance at those magazines while waiting in line at the grocery store.

I'm vaguely amused by antics here and there.

^^^ If a celeb does something genuinely interesting or laughably stupid that I can wring a drop of lols from, then that's fine. Don't care what breakfast cereals they eat though.

NO

Not sure why anyone would tbh

oh god yes, why - did something happen to them?

Depends what they've done, certain celebrities yes, "celebrities" as an amorphous mass, no.

"Caring about" tho, not sure what this means really

defined as caring if they get divorced or whatever

Oh right. No then. Dying or catching some horrible disease, yes.

... tho, Cheryl Cole getting malaria didn't make much impression on me... beyond the fact that I knew about it and I sort of wish I didn't... Serena Williams tho that was 0_0

depends on what celebrity your talking bout there are lots of them

I used to worry about Don Knotts a lot, but once he died, the celebrity field lost a lot of its glamour.

i only care about myself

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Haven't read this yet:

http://www.slate.com/id/2287228/

Care? Not really, but I am entertained by celebrity grand mal freakouts and bizarreness. Anti-celebrity histrionics and hand-wringing are far more annoying though - up there with anti-television militants.

The best celebrity train-wrecks to me are the ones that run counter to the wreckee's public image. I've been semi-following Charlie Sheen, but it does seem like an echo of stuff that's already happened with him. Ancient history, but I was more caught up in the Woody Allen story--that was shocking. And the O.J. case had celebrity mixed with so much else: race, sex, police corruption, etc. So...this thread isn't about celebrity scandals, but it does seem to have been inspired by Charlie Sheen. I cared more about the O.J. and Woody stories, because the celebrities there had more substance (that'll sound comical as applied to O.J., but if you're old enough to remember the year he eclipsed 2,000 yards, he once seemed like a person of some significance), and their stories resonated in ways that went beyond celebrity.

this thread isn't about celebrity scandals

It could be. I guess I'm just thinking abou US magazine and entertainment tonight, tmz, etc, and the millions of people who follow these storylines everyday, and wondering what the appeal is.

people like stories

Something non-personal to talk about around the watercooler, archetypes to judge without constraint as opposed to the real people in your life? Celebrities are good value for these reasons alone.

I'm still pissed off at Brad Pitt because he left Jennifer Aniston for Angelina Jolie and if I ever see him I fully intend to give him a piece of my mind.

I narrowly held myself back from doing that the time I saw Joe Jonas (re: Swifty). So I only really care if some girl I think is cute gets dumped.

It's stupid, but I spend a lot of time in line at the supermarket and those magazines just get to me sometimes.

I too was disappointed in Brad Pit for shacking up with Angelina Jolie over Jennifer Aniston. Not only did his promising career nose dive, but he's like a caricature of himself now. And I blame Angelina who already was a caricature and just gross.

only if there are sexie pix of ones i fancy. katy perry, scarlett j, etc...

I've begun to get really annoyed with people talking about celebs like they know them. I worked with this girl who used to bang on about, say, Jennifer Aniston and what she was and wasn't likely to do and how she didn't deserve it because she was such a nice person. When you're getting all of this from columns in the Metro or Heat which are just acres and acres of shite written about one "fact" or "quote from a source" you shouldn't really be taking it in the slightest bit seriously (let alone talk to me about it EVERY LUNCHTIME).

I don't care for the ones that act like douchebags to the fans and only think about their materials and bank accounts. I'm waiting for M.C. Hammer Syndrome to take over a lot of these folks.

I care about all living beings. This rule does not apply to whatever it is that celebrities become when they inhabit the media as imagery. Not people, obv.

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