HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO
I originally wanted to do an entry about my frustrating quest to pick up the new Gin Blossoms CD (Major Lodge Victory, in stores Now!) but instead, while I was looking for interesting news for www.tubapants.com (Link's On the Right, visit Today!), I came across this story and it just, well it really irked me.
I realize that as a gossip columnist it's Kat Giantis' job to be snarky and hipply ironic about all things Hollywood, but still there's snarky and then there's just plain mean. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were nice enough to pull over, check on an accident victim and then stay with them until help arrived and they get mocked for it. Instead of being seen as actual genuine concern for a fellow human being, it's seen as a PR move by two crazy people looking to get some good press. Katie Holmes is a glassy eyed zombie and Tom Cruise is a pseudo-scientist bogeyman with too perfect teeth, waiting in their SUV listening to a police scanner for accidents so they can swoop in and "save the day". Cut them some slack. They were on their way home from a soccer game, saw people in trouble and stopped to help. I don't hear any derision for all of the cars that continued down the highway, instead it's all saved for the people that stopped to help. Why? Cause they're really famous and really good looking and because this is America and the only thing we like more than eating is building someone up so we can turn around and tear them down.
And while I'm on the subject, will someone please get Congress to pass an bill requiring people to shut up about Suri? As a journalist, I'm a big supporter of the First Amendment, but I think this is one time where it could be reeled in a little bit. It's a baby people, it looks like a frickin' baby. It's going to look like a fat old man until about the age of two and then it'll look like a little version of Tom Cruise smooshed together with a little version of Katie Holmes. If you're that excited to know what she looks like, we've got the county fair here in town starting Wednesday. I'll go down to the sketch booth with a picture of both of them and see what we can come up with, okay? I bet she'll have really nice teeth.
They don't want their baby plastered all over the magazines, big deal. Surprise, some people like the idea of their children having their own private lives. Crazy, I know, but it happens. Just because America hasn't seen the kid yet doesn't mean she's got horns or is black or the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard. So just chill out and let them have their privacy. No, they don't owe you anything. Just because you own Top Gun on DVD and have the Dawson's Creek series finale on VHS doesn't mean you are entitled to know every single detail of their lives. If you've got this much free time on your hands why don't you spend it with your own kids? You don't have kids? Adopt one from one of those TV commercials and lavish it with all this attention. Maybe they'll send you a picture.
I realize that as a gossip columnist it's Kat Giantis' job to be snarky and hipply ironic about all things Hollywood, but still there's snarky and then there's just plain mean. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were nice enough to pull over, check on an accident victim and then stay with them until help arrived and they get mocked for it. Instead of being seen as actual genuine concern for a fellow human being, it's seen as a PR move by two crazy people looking to get some good press. Katie Holmes is a glassy eyed zombie and Tom Cruise is a pseudo-scientist bogeyman with too perfect teeth, waiting in their SUV listening to a police scanner for accidents so they can swoop in and "save the day". Cut them some slack. They were on their way home from a soccer game, saw people in trouble and stopped to help. I don't hear any derision for all of the cars that continued down the highway, instead it's all saved for the people that stopped to help. Why? Cause they're really famous and really good looking and because this is America and the only thing we like more than eating is building someone up so we can turn around and tear them down.
And while I'm on the subject, will someone please get Congress to pass an bill requiring people to shut up about Suri? As a journalist, I'm a big supporter of the First Amendment, but I think this is one time where it could be reeled in a little bit. It's a baby people, it looks like a frickin' baby. It's going to look like a fat old man until about the age of two and then it'll look like a little version of Tom Cruise smooshed together with a little version of Katie Holmes. If you're that excited to know what she looks like, we've got the county fair here in town starting Wednesday. I'll go down to the sketch booth with a picture of both of them and see what we can come up with, okay? I bet she'll have really nice teeth.
They don't want their baby plastered all over the magazines, big deal. Surprise, some people like the idea of their children having their own private lives. Crazy, I know, but it happens. Just because America hasn't seen the kid yet doesn't mean she's got horns or is black or the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard. So just chill out and let them have their privacy. No, they don't owe you anything. Just because you own Top Gun on DVD and have the Dawson's Creek series finale on VHS doesn't mean you are entitled to know every single detail of their lives. If you've got this much free time on your hands why don't you spend it with your own kids? You don't have kids? Adopt one from one of those TV commercials and lavish it with all this attention. Maybe they'll send you a picture.
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