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So I guess the real question is, is it weirder to (a) buy a zeppelin or (b) proclaim your love for Katie Holmes on Oprah in a scarifyingly enthusiastic manner?
No, I think the comparable (b) point for Travolta was BATTLEFIELD EARTH. That said, he hasn't seemed to be much of a spokesperson since then.
I'd put Michael and Tom 1 and 2. Michael's repeated surgery tips the scale for me.
Mel isn't that close. I mean,
reactionary, fundamentalist freakazoid
isn't that rare.
Buying a zeppelin pings me as much further toward the "charmingly eccentric" end of the weirdness scale, but hopping up and down on Oprah's furniture is firmly in the moderate-to-severe FREAKASS range.
Also, Travolta has been married to the same identical person for some appreciable length of time, and has managed in interviews to convey his affection for her without pouncing, hopping or flapping. Mind, I still think he's weird, but compared to Tom he is at this point positively stodgy.
isn't that rare.
Running his own religious cult and bankrolling his own freakass movies. Honestly, Tom's not in his league. Scientology in Hollywood is as common as herpes.
Val's a jerk, but that's another subject.
True, but still infinitely more jumpable than Toothy McTootherson, who is also proving to be a jerk.
No real argument, I just like the eye candy.
I think Travolta wised up about the annoyingness of proselytizing Scientology when he sat down his kids to watch The Scientology Movie, and his kids all said, "Oh YOU'RE the bady guy!!"
Or maybe when they found the movie boring, bombastic and ridiculous.
I think more Hollywoodites should have zeppelins. For one thing, avoid all the Los Angeles traffic! For another, a justification for owning a home in the Hollywood Hills -- can't moore a zeppelin to just any apple tree in the Valley, you know.
Covering xposting --
So I guess the real question is, is it weirder to (a) buy a zeppelin or (b) proclaim your love for Katie Holmes on Oprah in a scarifyingly enthusiastic manner?
I pick (b). At worst, (a) is endearingly eccentric. By contrast, it's stark staring bonkers for a 42YO man to go on Oprah Winfrey and act like either a 13YO in the middle of his first crush, or a 16YO who just got laid for the first time. In the privacy of close friends, maybe acceptable in certain circumstances, but not in public. And I say that as a 42YO man.
Battlefield Earth and War of the Worlds -- too soon to tell.
Zeppelins for everyone! It is a Zeppelin renaissance which will undoubtedly bring back the greatest of all pulp magazines, Zeppelin Stories.
Unless the aliens in War of the Worlds turn out to be space clams, it's not remotely in the same league as Battlefield Earth.
Zeppelins for everyone!
And no playing Stairway To Heaven on any of them!
