I found an article in the San Mateo Weekly News. This was
actually unusual because usually they write about uninteresting shit and their
movie reviews annoy me….
Anyway this article was titled, Entertainment: Are the Stars
Really Worth Our Interest? I was intrigued when I read this so I read on. The
article talked about how Hollywood and the entertainment business has
degenerated over the last fifteen years to the point that the majority of the
stars are dysfunctional low lives who go from one embarrassing incident to the
next and in all honesty treat their loyal fans like dirt. The author talked
about the days when he was young and a lot of stars acted like role models to
the public, like John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart. He admitted that incidents did happen, but not
like today. He pointed out incidents with Charlie Sheen and Justin Beiber as
prime examples. He also express how disheartening it was for him to go to New
York ComiCon and seeing Sylvester Stallone fleecing fan for $300 an autograph
and then just pushing them along like cattle. The author asked the question of when these
supposed icons where going to live up to the standards of the stars of the
past? Then he answered it harshly. He says it won’t happen until the public
gets tired of this childish behavior and hold these people to a higher
standard. Which to me says it will never happen.
I’ve seen this crap way too much in the horror industry.
I’ve seen supposed artists acting like spoiled children and petty bullies. It
saddens me as well. I remember being completely disgusted when twenty supposedly
iconic horror “stars” contacted me on the day that Twisted Terror Con started
and went out of their way to laugh and insult me because that bitch Jessica
Cameron (who was acting like an unprofessional child) demanded that I get
tossed from the convention simply because she didn’t like me. Sorry, that and
what the others did did not show class or any stretch of star quality. I lost a lot of respect for a number of people
that day.The
truth is in their hunger to make profits and sell their wears a lot of these
stars forget the people they are supposed to care about, that being the fans.
So, to the question: Are the Stars Worth Our Interest? Not if they are going to
act like drunken, money hungry, unfeeling, dysfunctional, jackasses. You want
the title of “Star” then live up to it. That is just a suggestion…
