Comments on: Crisis of Infinite Celebrities

By: ScribeLA

ScribeLA — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:32:27 +0000

“Hot tennis players” – John, you and I are so on the same page. And we both can enjoy men’s tennis for the view, and the tennis of course. Scribe

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:35:52 +0000

Please include all satellites in the Paris Hilton orbit. The thin one who “knows what she did,” the sister, the firecrotch-starter, Greek shipping heirs, other sexual partners.

Speaking of superheroes, ever seen DistractorMan (was that his name?) on SNL’s TV Funhouse? It’s so much easier to get caught up in these “celeb” stories than to pay attention to what’s really happening in the world. How the Liberators have killed thirty-thousand-plus of Saddam’s oppressed (but we’re helping them! or wait? are they now the “enemy”? I can’t remember)… destroyed an entire country’s schools, hospitals, businesses, and infrastructure, setting up a whole new generation of angry enemies…. and our own government is now tapping all our phones, dirtily ruining all political opponents (that is, anyone who questions their actions), and generally setting us back about 100 years (even Nixon and Eisenhower staffers are appalled at the money being spent, the power being abused, the setbacks in environmental and personal-liberty issues). Yep, better to feel sorry for that poor pretty Jennifer Aniston and count the days until the next celeb baby drops, than to examine any of these things too closely.

By: Ms. Doe

Ms. Doe — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:58:38 +0000

Surely this is a sign the end times are upon us.

By: Joey Smith

Joey Smith — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:24:52 +0000

With the press and the homophobia thing, it’s catch 22, the childish and nasty behaviour will continue until the gay major celebrities come out. The first few may well be rough, but things will calm down and actors willl be accepted for who they are, and the press won’t be able to act in this way. In the UK, Will Young, was forced to come out to cut off a press expose, but it hasn’t done him any harm and the press and public have accepted his sexuality fully.

By: Under the Blankets

Under the Blankets — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:05:49 +0000

What if celebrities are really just CGI shots shown on television & movies ??? What if we’re all just chasing some fantasy ??

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:47:01 +0000

The worst part is that these obsessions aren’t limited to the tabloids or tabloid TV. I swear to God, I heard that “Brangelina” was pregnant from the Today Show. They opened the freakin’ broadcast with it! Katie said a few random things about how the sky was falling in Iraq and then said–and yes, I do remember it verbatim–”Good genes! Angelina Jolie is pregnant with Brad Pitt’s baby today,” and the she said the date, whatever that was. I guess I need to give up on the notion that there’s such a thing as network news anymore. sigh

By: MaryAn

MaryAn — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:25:54 +0000

Wonder if my television can file stalking charges against Hasselhoff.

By: Americo

Americo — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:09:06 +0000

Hey John, if you think Crisis on Infinite Earths was good, take a look at Infinite Crisis, fucking amazing. And yeah, not just t.v. and film. But music.

Rap music today is going through what Metal went through in the late 80's and 90's. It needs to get out of the trend. Hell, everything needs to get out of this trend. I used to think it was just cause I was getting old that things were sucking. But no, things suck big time, time for clean-up on aisle Earth.

By: Tim Clague

Tim Clague — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:25:38 +0000

John,

Please also eliminate some bloggers. There are too many these days. I suggest that we need a 90% cull. Harsh but fair I think.

By: jg

jg — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:11:48 +0000

I have to throw in my two cents on this one. I’m a PA in NYC and spent last week on a commercial shoot with Maria Sharapova. She is by FAR the hottest woman I’ve ever seen in person, 6 ft tall..oh, and she’s pretty damn good at tennis. After spending 12 hours in a hotel room with her (ok, and about 13 other people) I can tell you, as far as celebrities, she is about as perfect as they come, not one harsh word to anyone, friendly, sweet…and did I mention unbelievably smokin hot. Someone get this girl a drink and a Scientologist boyfriend so we can see more of her.

By: Under the Blankets

Under the Blankets — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:40:34 +0000

If a screenwriter kills someone, you can always say your characters made you do it.