Hypocrite, heal thyself.

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Yes I think this woman nailed Angelina and Brad


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1038122/MRS-ANGRY-Grande-dame-poison-pen-Julie-Burchill-lets-rip-modern-life.html

'HOW DARE YOU INVADE MY PRIVACY!'

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it. It has a modern slant, too. The current-day Hollywood is populated by bigger hypocrites than ever.

Legends from Ava Gardner to Richard Burton would routinely get drunk with the journalists sent to write about them, and in the process casually pour contempt on their talent, the industry and, most deliciously of all, the whole myth of acting as an art.

Richard Burton once claimed that all actors were gay and went into showbiz only so they could wear make-up every day without being beaten up.


Richard Burton: He once claimed all actors were gay and went into showbiz only so they could wear make-up every day without being beaten up.

How impossible it is to imagine the 'real' film stars of today doing this. When Oscar Wilde said that being natural is surely the biggest pose of all, he must have foreseen the current crop of big-screen luvvies, those po-faced, 'fiercely private' paparazzi-haters who have chosen to expose themselves on screens the size of churches - often naked - in return for vast amounts of money from paying strangers.

And then act outraged when they find people looking.

These attacks of the vapours invariably come across as about as justifiable as a stripper getting upset when people expect her to take her clothes off, and you can almost see why star-stalkers sincerely believe that they're married to their favourite flesh-flashing star.

While ceaselessly lying to themselves and the public about how the process of acting - i.e. pretending to be someone else, by reciting words yet another someone else has written - is all about 'honesty', modern actors never dare to face the one stark, simple truth about the way they have chosen to make a living.

Which is that they have never grown out of the 'look at me' stage of childhood; they want attention, pure and simple, more than they want anything else in life, including regular one-to-one human relationships, and this desire embarrasses them so much in their rare lucid moments that they overcompensate by endlessly and ludicrously insisting on how 'private' they essentially are.

In fact, the pain actors willingly submit to, the bravery they display, the sacrifices they make - just for us - makes the civilian mind boggle with sheer molten awe. Why, they make nurses, firemen and volunteers in leper colonies - all of them ever, all rolled together - look like the Hilton sisters on a spring-break spree. So, why won't we just stop looking at them?

Of course, when we do, and they cease to be box office, they move on to reality shows, finding yet another way of getting themselves in our faces. The sad, strange fact is that it is stars who stalk civilians far more often than civilians stalk stars. So who's the weirdo here?

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CELEBRITIES WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT 'THE PRICE OF FAME'

I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame.

Having secured and learned to love the trappings of fame, they try to kick the ladder away. Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.


Fame-hungry: Paris Hilton thrives on media attention, despite her claims otherwise.

When you are a star, everything is free; for example, the hideously named 'goody bags' that are now pressed on celebrities each time they attend the opening of an envelope.

At the Oscars, gifts easily total 100,000 dollars per person and over the years have contained everything from 40,000-dollar watches to holidays in Tahiti, all this just for turning up at a party, smiling for the camera and downing free booze. Naturally, the idea of losing all these perks - not to mention the main business of being paid more in a week to sing/play-act/dress up and walk along a catwalk than a nurse or teacher is paid in a year - is absolutely horrific to the rich and famous.

So they pile on the agony, talking up the 'stress' and 'pressure' of being paid to do very little apart from show off in one form or another, at any opportunity. And, in a thoroughly spiteful, mean-spirited and underhand attempt to ring the bell as soon as they're on the bus, they ceaselessly diss the bright, talented youngsters from TV talent shows.

When all else fails, they enter rehab - 'See how fame has made me suffer. So stay behind that fast-food counter, kids, and don't try to follow me up the greasy pole.'

Celebrities try to foster the myth that fame is something that descends on individuals out of the blue, with no encouragement, blighting innocent lives; even Z-list personalities come out with astoundingly self-pitying statements about how fame has ruined their lives, as if they haven't pursued it with all the dignity and restraint of a rat up a drainpipe. Having slogged so hard to become famous, it seems a bit rich - not to say simple-minded - to turn around 20 years later and whine about what a pile of c**p it all is.

Just go, then - you' re probably rich enough. Do what pop stars Sade and Kate Bush did when they were at the height of their fame and genuinely grew tired of it - disappear!

The difference, I suppose is that they weren't greedy and needy, unlike the moaning minnies who complain about fame while doing everything humanly possible to keep it at fever pitch. Hypocrite, heal thyself.

How odd two of my favorite singers are Sade and Kate Bush

[maza nsi]

Great article and great reply.

It is so EASY to be an "actor" and not be a celebrity -- There are thousands of "character" actors that do this and are incredible actors that will forever fly under the HW radar and LIKE IT that way.

That said, I think the author makes a mistake by lumping lumping ALL actors into the category of never having grown out of the look at me stage -- 75% yes, but for many, acting does become a career, after all, and is paying their bills. Seems like the ones who realize that it is "just a job" tend to be the ones who become TRULY private -- whereas the others just go on and on claiming to be private or complain about privacy.

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Which is that they have never grown out of the 'look at me' stage of childhood; they want attention, pure and simple, more than they want anything else in life, including regular one-to-one human relationships, and this desire embarrasses them so much in their rare lucid moments that they overcompensate by endlessly and ludicrously insisting on how 'private' they essentially are.

Angelina is thy name

[Guest]

Celebrities try to foster the myth that fame is something that descends on individuals out of the blue, with no encouragement, blighting innocent lives; even Z-list personalities come out with astoundingly self-pitying statements about how fame has ruined their lives, as if they haven't pursued it with all the dignity and restraint of a rat up a drainpipe. Having slogged so hard to become famous, it seems a bit rich - not to say simple-minded - to turn around 20 years later and whine about what a pile of c**p it all is.

Just go, then - you' re probably rich enough. Do what pop stars Sade and Kate Bush did when they were at the height of their fame and genuinely grew tired of it - disappear!

The difference, I suppose is that they weren't greedy and needy, unlike the moaning minnies who complain about fame while doing everything humanly possible to keep it at fever pitch. Hypocrite, heal thyself.

[Guest]

Celebrity-ism is for ego mongers.