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Just watched! Oh how I would hate to be famous!

posted 11 years ago by drunkn_munky
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Just finished watching this and I have to say, it just clarified and cemented the idea that I would hate to be famous in this day and age. I've read a lot of comments on here about how celebs should stop complaining about being photographed, but from watching this it seems that it isn't the being photographed that's the problem....its how they get photographed.

Just because someone loves to make music, or act etc. and is lucky enough to be able to cement a career in this field, doesn't automatically mean they loose all rights to privacy. The fact that someone isn't able to feel safe in their own home because a fella with a camera, who calls himself a photographer, feels entitled to jump a fence and put a lense up to a bedroom window, makes me seriously worried about the society and culture we're in, that people think that's acceptable.

And as several people have said, I feel sorry for the kids. The papz have always seemed a bit like vultures but hearing that they almost pushed and trampled on a baby to get pictures is disgusting! Isn't there something wrong with grown men being allowed to take photographs of kids without any adult consent?? Seems bizarre that in this day and age where everyone is suspect, and parents have to sign forms to allow pics of their kids in a local newspaper and school magazine, that there isn't some law about paps and celebs kids..

Someone in this doc. said something along the lines of being interested in the next generation of celebrity...but it wasn't pointed out that just because someone has a famous parent, doesn't make them famous or even have any want of fame. Making a child a celeb because of their parents, puts them on the same level as Heidi and Spencer! Famous for nothing in particular. Mags will just boost them up to tear them back down...whether they asked for it or not.

Anyway..do I feel sorry for celebs after watching this? I kinda already did before. Not the money or the job or any of that..not even the being photographed, but being chased while driving, blinded by constant flashes, having no say or control over what's said/written/shown about you, pushed and prodded for a reaction so paps can get a photo...I am not envious of. Basically paps will always be there even when they're not needed, I just think there needs to be something in place to reign the animals in.

Oh and this was defo worth a watch. Good view of the cameras being turned on the paps for a diff view of things.

A virgin..lit the black flamed candle

[–] Entertain-Mee 11 years ago

I've got this to watch, just haven't got around to it yet.
I agree with what you have said. I have always said, i would love to be super rich just not famous. It's disgusting what celebs have to put up with. These fools with cameras are a bunch of low life's who have no morals what so ever. I have never been able to understand that as soon as you are classified as a 'celeb' your entire life is open to the public. There seems to be no limits. If anyone else was subject to this scrutiny it would be a case of the fool with a camera now being classified as a stalker and it would be an invasion of privacy.....
The whole paparazzi deal makes me sick i even cringe with that word.

Now having said that, poachers of wildlife make me sick too. Why the hell am I saying that?
Because both are driven by consumer demand. For the life of me I have and never will understand the fascination people have for celebrities. Sure I love watching their movies, music, sport whatever, I also like to catch an interview here and there, I.T.A.S hosted by James Lipton comes to mind. However I sure as hell couldn't care less who they are or are not seeing or what type of clothes they are wearing or god forbid go out in public or their own backyard on a bad hair day and have some dirtbag perched up in a tree with a lens that could take a picture of Saturn's rings snapping away at them. Or step out of a car and get their cornea zapped by all the flashes going off, trying to get a picture of their SHOES they are wearing.
Seriously if people stopped caring about all this *beep* and don't buy the magazines or whatever, then the demand diminishes and so does the pay checks these bums with cameras are getting, then one day it might stop.
Are people's life's that empty that they need to be fed images of other human beings living their lives.
What a crazy world sometimes.

[–] scorpion-52 9 years ago

Some people truly are that pathetic, even worse are the worthless sh*theads that you see on the comments sections on gossip sites like TMZ and Radaronline, these people are sub-human garbage that only express enjoy when a celebrity like Lindsay Lohan is in trouble and they desperately want her to fail so as to validate their own pathetic existence.