Trudy, your stance on this strikes me as so cynical it's almost wrapping back around to naive. Publicists' jobs are to make their charges desirable to the public. No doubt some of them feed the paparazzi to do so.
However the idea that the paparazzi are always invited to fly over and take pictures of celebrities at home or to stake out their supermarket--why the fuck should someone have to send their assistant out to buy Midol? How is that the celebrity's fault?
Fact is, the paparazzi know there's a market for stalkeresque pictures, whether they're set up or not. They're not patsies in a great puppet show manned by celebrities and publicists. They're agents too.
While I do think it is going way out on a limb to say celebrities as a group want the paparazzi kind of attention and no way would I say they desearve it, I think we all know that there are certain types of people who want attention and go about getting it in odd ways. For these creatures, who I do not understand at all, it is enough to get attention, even if it is negative.
I refuse to wear my seatbelt.
Calling all libertarians! Rant opportunity!
I confess to enjoying the "Celebrities are just like us!" features in magazines, with the pictures of people walking down the street with coffee or whatever.
Does that make me a bad person?
We all have our cross to bear, OK??
So, I had a big late lunch, and now I'm hungry. I hate that. Maybe oatmeal.
I will pray for you tomorrow at church. Then I will make a sign for you to wear that says "I contributed to killing Princess Di".
I did not! I also enjoy random pictures of non-famous people.
Jesse, we've talked before about how wrong you are. I didn't know it was
this
bad.
Actually, those pieces irritate me because I do think that celebrities are just like us. I don't need to be reminded that they buy toilet paper or spill their coffee.
