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Celebrities: They Are Just People Too
Every time I go to the supermarket and stand
in line to check out I see dozens of magazines or tabloids
about celebrities. My question to anyone that buys these magazines
or cares what is inside is, why do you care?
I can understand going to a movie because you
are a fan of the star. I personally try to see any movie that
Tom Hanks is in because he makes excellent films. I can understand
why a person might want to go to a concert to see their favorite
musician. There are many examples where a fan could be interested
in a celebrity. That is where it should stop though. Why do
people care if Nick and Jessica are breaking up? Why do people
care what Ben Affleck is doing? If it wasn’t for Matt Damon
and “Good Will Hunting” he would be working a construction
site like he was in the movie, because he hasn’t made a good
movie since.
If my next door neighbor is having trouble with
his spouse it is not found all over the magazines and tabloids.
Why are “celebrities” personal lives any different? They are
not any more important than the rest of us, or are they? It
is our hard earned money that makes these people famous in
the first place. There are movie stars making $20 million
a movie because we buy the tickets. There are drug dealers/gang
bangers, making a fortune as rap stars because we buy their
CD’s and tickets to see them in concert.
The most unfortunate part of this fascination
with celebrities is that more often than not, they are bad
influences on younger people and bad examples to society in
general. It is very discouraging when you see celebrities
rarely being found guilty of crimes because they have high-priced
attorneys that get them off. This is not to say they are all
guilty but I think there have been cases when a guilty man
was set free. Celebrities act as if they are immune to the
same laws that apply to the rest of us.
It seems as time passes that people’s priorities
become more and more distorted. Instead of focusing our time
and energy on people who need it, whether they are sick, homeless,
undereducated, or what have you, people spend time and money
following the people who need no help from anyone because
they can buy all the help they need. Somehow I did not feel
bad for Jennifer Anniston and Brad Pitt when they broke up.
Both are very well-off financially, both are very attractive,
they had multiple homes together with servants to handle all
their needs. Their biggest concern was selling off their main
home for $20 million. This is just not reality, but then again,
maybe that is the reason people are caught up in their lives.
At least the magazines and tabloids that discuss these very
wealthy people do serve one purpose, they help to keep the
homeless people warm on those artic winter nights.
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