I think people care because the pictures don't just appear--photographers have to be there and following you and trying to get close. This is just annoying and sometimes scary if you are an adult, but for celebs with kids, it must be really difficult. Having strangers follow you donw the street every time you step out of the house with a stroller can't be pleasant.
Saffron: He's my husband. Mal: Well, who in the damn galaxy ain't?
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Feb 04, 2006 7:45:02 am PST #4925 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Trudy Booth - Feb 04, 2006 7:45:08 am PST #4926 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
You can work in LA without doing the whole "scene". Without hiring a publicist. Without having press releases every time you burp.
Mayyyyybe Brad and Angelina never could have had a discrete (which would be unique in her career for sure) relationship etc., but Heather Locklear could. Lance Armstrong could. Just logistically a break up would be easier to not be hounded by-- what's the incriminating photo? Someone by themselves? Just don't say anything and after four hundred solo red carpet pictures people will catch on.
Send an assistant to buy the tampons if you've been in the paper enough that week (and if you haven't, buy them yourself). If an actual celebrity claims to not like it check when their next project is coming out before you take it at gospel. Do you not see the game at all?
Lee - Feb 04, 2006 7:47:08 am PST #4927 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Gronk. I went back to bed with a vengeance this morning (but yay, now it has stopped raining).
To do today:
Select 2 loads of laundry out of the 100 or so I could do (that's all the quarters I have)
Do the laundry
Put together a Target/Marshall's/Old Navy/Macy's if I have to shopping list
Budget stuff
Buinches of work
Dinner at Shiok!
Scrappy - Feb 04, 2006 7:47:54 am PST #4928 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I can see putting out a press realease to avoid questions and rumors. People yelling at you every time you go out "Where's Lance?" I mean, jeez, when my marriage broke up *I* would have loved to have been able to announce it, rather than face the same questions and wrong assumptions over and over--and that was from friends.
Also, Armstrong has kids, so I assume he wants to forestall as much public wondering about affairs, etc, as possible.
Topic!Cindy - Feb 04, 2006 7:50:30 am PST #4929 of 10002
What is even happening?
but Heather Locklear could. Lance Armstrong could. Just logistically a break up would be easier to not be hounded by-- what's the incriminating photo? Someone by themselves? Just don't say anything and after four hundred solo red carpet pictures people will catch on.Lance Armstrong could, but I don't know about Locklear. Filing for divorce is a public act, and people working for the courts, etc., phone in news items to gossip columnists.
Trudy Booth - Feb 04, 2006 7:52:03 am PST #4930 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Even with the press release you'd still get it from friends.
I'm sure its a drag. Its also self-perpetuated and a whole lot of crocodile tears.
Jesse - Feb 04, 2006 7:53:10 am PST #4931 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Putting out a relationship-status press release is clearly part of the game, but it doesn't make the actual breakup any easier.
Trudy Booth - Feb 04, 2006 7:55:25 am PST #4932 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Filing for divorce is a public act, and people working for the courts, etc., phone in news items to gossip columnists.
So the item runs, everyone knows, you never had a press conference.
Michael J. Fox talks in his book about how celebrities (particularly young and quickly famous ones) begin to belive that their shit actually matters to the larger world. It's a little narcissistic and kooky.
Scrappy - Feb 04, 2006 8:00:32 am PST #4933 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Send an assistant to buy the tampons if you've been in the paper enough that week (and if you haven't, buy them yourself).
But I think that famous people who DON'T want to play the game--who want to do their own shopping and live like a person and who DON'T want to be photographed--are screwed. Sure there are plenty who live to feed the publicity machine and then pretend they don't (and I have NO sympathy for them), but there are also plenty who just want to do their work and do their errands and date and whatever.
Trudy Booth - Feb 04, 2006 8:08:36 am PST #4934 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
And other than the uber famous they likely can. Are there incessant photos of Brad Garrett buying underwear? Pattie Heaton and her kids? They were in a hit series for a decade pretty much unscathed.
Neither of them in young and hot. That's likely factor. If you're young and hot and on a hit show and genuinely want to be left alone you could have a problem. Of course, part of being "hot" is publicity... its a real chicken-egg.