[kj] amy shithouse & celebrity addiction in general.

[Jiri]

Yeah, the whole press game with all these crash-and-burn celeb types is 
insane. So many who get ink not for talent but for lifestyle. I try to 
keep it out. And I gotta say, sometimes I really like living in this 
self-imposed cave: it's kind of pleasant to never have heard of this 
Winehouse before she was mentioned on...the Gathering of all places! 
I'll just enjoy this bliss and not google her.

Of course, the day a lady at work said, "Can you believe -- Anna 
Nicole's son died?" I went off about why the hell I should even know or 
care...so I probably need a nap. (That said, it helped, as the lady 
never mentioned when Anna Nicole herself died.)

uncle benny's magical bra & liquorice factory wrote:

> Hello, been away...

>

> Y'know what makes me smile with all this celebrity drug (and alcohol) 

> abuse is the double standards with which the press treat it all.

>

> The tone of the reporting is kind of:

> Oh dear, poor Amy Winehouse. Her mum's really worried.

> Kerry Katonas (who?) Drug hell -- her friends say with the pressure of 

> fame she's spiralling out of control

> PETE DOCHERTY EVIL SATAN DIE! DIE! DIE!

> Robbie -- how rehab saved me

>

> It bothers me the way the press treats this celebrity addiction 

> (depending upon whether or not the person in question is currently in 

> favour or not) as if it were no more than a case of a bad cold; that 

> we should feel sorry for these poor 'celebs' plight when really (IMO & 

> how I'd like it to be seen in the eyes of my kids) it should be 

> vilified across the board as pathetic & dirty & not something you can 

> spend a week in `The Priory take a Lemsip & be all better.

>

> Phew -- I need a lie down.

> Or a lion...

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