To Kill a Celebrity

A scary thought is that any person that I know could, potentially, become a celebrity. They walk among us, everyday, donning civilian clothes and attemping to fit in. You could be in line at the bank or a grocery store and a celebrity could be just behind you buying milk, eggs, and maybe even cereal. It's a scary thought. But there is hope. We need not live in fear. No longer must we constantly be looking over our collective shoulder, thanks to Us Weekly.

Yes that supermarket tabloid we've all come to know and love has saved humanity. There is a section of the magazine entitled, "Celebrities: They're just like us!", where paparazzi take photos of celebs doing everyday things like walking, yawning, putting in eye drops, and other banal activities to prove their humanity.

Everytime I see those articles, I think of the movie Reign of Fire with Matthew McConnehey and Christian Bale. When Van Zant and his team of ruffians come to London, he tells Quinn about the true nature of the dragons. "They're made of flesh and blood! They got a heart, liver, and mind. You take out one of them, you bring down the beast!" I love that speech just because McConnehey is bald, bearded, and ripped to shreds and is almost always crying tears of absolute passion in every scene. But when ever I watch that movie, I always think of Us Weekly and the reminders they give us about how "normal" celebrities are. I guess some people think you have to decapitate celebrites Highlander style or shoot them with silver bullets to bring down.

This is why I would never want to be famous and/or a celebrity: you lose your humanity and you spend the rest of your life trying to get it back. This is probably why so many celebrities form charities and foundations, so they look like they care. I'm sure they do, too. I don't think all celebrities are shallow and callous and full of hate. I don't think they think of themselves as gods on Olympus. But we do. That's how we see them. I know this because there is a section in Us Weekly called "Celebrities: They're Just Like Us!". If we thought celebrities were just normal Joe Schmos then that article would never exist. But I guess in the long run, that section is good. People shouldn't think of celebrities as superpowerful uber-people and the article definate brings them down from that stature. I just think it's silly that we NEED that article to do so.