'Out Of Gas'
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Putting out a relationship-status press release is clearly part of the game, but it doesn't make the actual breakup any easier.
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.
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.
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.
So the item runs, everyone knows, you never had a press conference.
Did Locklear give a press conference, or did her publicist make a statement to the press? I think it was the second (but don't pay enough attention to catch the first), and even then, my impression was the media found out about the filing, and then contacted her publicist.
Just the FACT that she HAS a publicist. Clearly she's asking for it.