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Continued from here, where we’ve been talking about getting a life …
Formulating any opinion about how far apart Angelina Jolie’s children should be spaced, or anything else, is about as much your right as it would be for the guy that pumps your gas to decide he has something to say about whether or not your kids should be baptized based on what sort of car you drive. 
This celebrity-life-sucking-vampire-stuff has got to stop! It’s not good for you. It’s not good for society in general. Plus, it’s embarrassing.
If one’s life isn’t interesting or exciting or upsetting enough, one should not take to draining the interesting, exciting or upsetting from another like some pathetic parasitic creature incapable of anything more than dangling uselessly alongside the useful, but rather do something to create vitality in one’s own day-to-day.
Imagine if the energy and resources expensed in America alone on taking normal people whose jobs put their faces in places and ramming them down the throats of everyone with a buck-fifty to spare on glossy birdcage liners were used instead for education or healthcare?
What if hours spent watching celebrity bios and reading Oprah’s weight stats were instead passed volunteering to help stressed mothers or spending time with bedridden people or planting trees or raking zoo poop?
How about if folks took the time they’re spending yammering on about Angelina’s life, family, travel, adoptions and such on web groups and forums and instead took a course or learned a language or got themselves a pen pal?
Whatever.
Please, if ever you find yourself tempted to dip into the sleaze pool that is “star gazing”, remind yourself that life is too short to spend any time building up a head of steam over things that are 1) none of your business, and 2) way beyond the scope of you ever having any real information. In other words, a complete and total waste of time and energy.
It’s also simply not nice.
Whoo-Hooo!!
Okay, not related to adoption, BUT, many stars, including Angie dearest and Brad baby, encourage the attention they get. Why? It sells their image and their movies.
Sure, we don’t have to buy into it, worship it, or even pay the remotest attention to it, and honestly, more don’t than do, but the “does” are move vocal.
Just my 2 quetzales.
L.
I beg to differ, Lisa.
The people they work for and those making a buck from the pap encourage the attention. As part of the job, it is demanded that they do press for the films they make. Press tours for those are required, and most actors comply.
The rest of the ‘attention’ most actors get is unsolicited and unappreciated. They do what they can to get on with their lives, and aside from a few who decide on political careers and such, they would like it just fine if no one paid one lick of attention until a movie was coming out…and then only to the movie.
The industry that is mags and e! and such perpetuates the ’star’ stuff to sell product, and I put them in the same class as cigarette companies. People need to ‘just say no.”
Imagine my surprise when I saw you quoted in this news article today, Sandra:
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/March/theworld_March449.xml§ion=theworld&col=
Did you know you were in the Dubai news?
I had no idea, Fiona. Thanks for letting me know. Wish they’d taken one of my snappier lines, however …