Thread Killers... not so anonymous

Heh... well, prayers for her family, but meh, I'm tired of hearing about celebrities... All they do is piss and moan inside the Rolling Stone talking about how hard life can be...

I'd like to see them spend a week living life out on the street...

I don't think they would survive.
 
Heh... well, prayers for her family, but meh, I'm tired of hearing about celebrities... All they do is piss and moan inside the Rolling Stone talking about how hard life can be...

I'd like to see them spend a week living life out on the street...

I don't think they would survive.

very true.
It's amazing to see who knows how to work outside the industry & who doesn't have a clue.
 
I think the trouble with celebs is that they a) have no marketable skills to make it out in the real world, and b) therefore cant get work out in the real world.

The trouble again is that some celebs get typecast, and therefore can't get their foot back in making movies/tv shows that aren't looking for their type. Either that, or they don't generate enough buzz (not on the latest "who's who" list), and everyone (in hollyweird) looks on them with disdain as yesterday's hasbeen.
In other words, back then, they were hot, now, they're not.

Then they sit, waiting for the next call from their agent, telling them they got a gig. Get depressed, and either end up eventually talking to Dr. Drew, or making Lindsey Lohan headlines.

With the inability of just about anybody nowadays to getting a job, after any lengthy time of not having a job/getting fired/downsizing/etc, it's not a far stretch to understand people getting despondent because they can't get a new job. I'm not making excuses for celebs, but explaining why I don't have complete lack of sympathy for where they are at.
 
I think the trouble with celebs is that they a) have no marketable skills to make it out in the real world, and b) therefore cant get work out in the real world.

The trouble again is that some celebs get typecast, and therefore can't get their foot back in making movies/tv shows that aren't looking for their type. Either that, or they don't generate enough buzz (not on the latest "who's who" list), and everyone (in hollyweird) looks on them with disdain as yesterday's hasbeen.
In other words, back then, they were hot, now, they're not.

Then they sit, waiting for the next call from their agent, telling them they got a gig. Get depressed, and either end up eventually talking to Dr. Drew, or making Lindsey Lohan headlines.

With the inability of just about anybody nowadays to getting a job, after any lengthy time of not having a job/getting fired/downsizing/etc, it's not a far stretch to understand people getting despondent because they can't get a new job. I'm not making excuses for celebs, but explaining why I don't have complete lack of sympathy for where they are at.

Then there is that whole "ANY attention" is good thing even bad attention.
That's when it gets sad.
 
I think the trouble with celebs is that they a) have no marketable skills to make it out in the real world, and b) therefore cant get work out in the real world.

The trouble again is that some celebs get typecast, and therefore can't get their foot back in making movies/tv shows that aren't looking for their type. Either that, or they don't generate enough buzz (not on the latest "who's who" list), and everyone (in hollyweird) looks on them with disdain as yesterday's hasbeen.
In other words, back then, they were hot, now, they're not.

Then they sit, waiting for the next call from their agent, telling them they got a gig. Get depressed, and either end up eventually talking to Dr. Drew, or making Lindsey Lohan headlines.

With the inability of just about anybody nowadays to getting a job, after any lengthy time of not having a job/getting fired/downsizing/etc, it's not a far stretch to understand people getting despondent because they can't get a new job. I'm not making excuses for celebs, but explaining why I don't have complete lack of sympathy for where they are at.

I think it's true of a lot of people with good careers that if you took away their career, they would have trouble finding marketable skills and transitioning to a different field. If a doctor had their license pulled, would they easily transition to something else? Quite possibly not. So in that sense, I don't think celebrities are unusual.
 
Then there is that whole "ANY attention" is good thing even bad attention.
That's when it gets sad.

Exactly true. "There's no such thing as bad press" is something celebs have always known, but that's what I was referring to regarding "generating buzz." As long as people are talking about them, is all they care about because that keeps them in the lime light and makes Hollyweird interested in putting them in TV shows/movies.

I don't contest that Hollyweird is a sick business, just stating that the path celebs take is not that unusual.

I think it's true of a lot of people with good careers that if you took away their career, they would have trouble finding marketable skills and transitioning to a different field. If a doctor had their license pulled, would they easily transition to something else? Quite possibly not. So in that sense, I don't think celebrities are unusual.

Exactly true.
 
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