If every person I met wanted something from me except small children and my gigantic immediate family I might only hang out with those people
But I don't think you would, Trudes. Lots of other gigantic celebs have managed to have a life. Paul McCartney raised a family and drives his own car and has friends and he was a BEATLE. Ron Howard has been in the business since he was three and he has a family and adult friends. We have many examples of HUGE stars navigating the trickiness of fame without totally isolating themselves as he has done, so it's clear it's not merely the price of fame. He IS an anomaly and an anomaly in ways which raise people's hackles. It's not the stuff or the surgery, since a lot of rich folks buy toys, I don't think. It's the way he speaks and what he talks about and how he chooses to live his life which make folks feel creepy about him. I am NOT saying that means he's a pedophile--I am saying is that he reads as deeply damaged to most people and that is different from having bad taste or lots of vanity. Damage does not equal guilt, though.
The State of the Union Drinking Game!"
Wow -- that's one overly complicated drinking game. It looks like it would require me to pay too much attention.
I let Ribisi and his big-ass, gas-guzzling black pickup truck take a left in front of me, and he didn't wave. He is dead to me.
Not enough money in the world to make me watch the SotU. OK, that's a lie, I'd watch it for as little as $1000.00. Just in case anyone has money they need to get rid of.
But short of getting paid to do it, I think I will watch movies instead.
I saw Michael Musto in the subway station this weekend.
Much simpler 2005 SotU Drinking Game
[eta:
if he admits having made a mistake in the past four years: STOP DRINKING (you've clearly had too much already)
Bwah.]
I keep hearing that the hobbit boy on LOST lives near me, too. Something about him being at House of Pies often.
See, ita, I told you we should have gone to have pie the other day.
Lots of other gigantic celebs have managed to have a life...
And lots of even un-famous people with big families only hang out with family. Its a thing. Some Kennedy said, "when you have this much family you don't need friends."
Again, it may
be
crazy, but its not
necessarily
crazy.
Why is it crazier when madly wealthy and wildly creative to to have a sequined wardrobe that you design yourself and and have made than to wear the identical hand-made suit as every other multi millionaire?
Pee Wee Herman didn't show up in court in full Pee Wee gear. Elton John doesn't show up in court as the Piano Man.
One of the things I look for in an adult is the ability to change behavior so that it is appropriate to the context. Jackson hasn't shown that ability.
And lots of even un-famous people with big families only hang out with family.
Sure. But Jackson is in fact famously estranged from most of his family and hangs out primarily with his entourage.
Who do you want to defend next? Howard Hughes? Elvis?
Jackson behaves weirdly. There are many, many public attested instances of his weird behavior; the baby hung out the window, the repeated plastic surgery, the defense of sleeping with children *while under suspicion of child molestation*, the adoration of Peter Pan, the veils he places on his other children in public.
That doesn't make him a pedophile. But he has earned the weirdo title fair and square by his own efforts, just like Farrah Fawcett and Crispin Glover.
