Pathetic Celebrities At Cannes
AS Hamrah has had enough of Cannes:
It’s not just that celebrities are dull. More and more, there’s also something about them that fills us with revulsion. It used to be that a celebrity sighting was cause for celebration. You’d phone the wife and kids: “Hey, I just saw Robert Stack walking into the Automat!” Now it’s more an occasion for jeering.Or, more accurately, a chance to feel a deep queasiness about what’s happened to our culture. The celebrity is quickly becoming a harbinger of nausea, a delivery system for Weltschmerz, there to remind us that things, actually, are what they seem: pathetic.
Still beats watching some of the films…
May 17th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Robert Stack is dead. Perhaps you should reconsider the use of his name to illustrate your poorly conceived point, assuming you actually had one.
May 18th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
They are given too much publicity and often have only made one film.