Hey, you want to sunbathe on public beach without having your picture taken by everyone and their brother? Well, you shoulda thought of that before you worked so hard to be rich and/or famous.
Oh you poor, poor rich, famous people. Your lives must be so terrible. It’s too bad all your attempts to live like regular jackoffs have been unsuccessful and so you are forced to continue your miserable wealthy jetsetter existences.
:dubious:
If Frank was still with us, maybe we could get him to send all these assholes a personalized copy of this letter.
I have no comment on this thread, but Frank Sinatra can write. I’d always thought of him as a singing airhead. He either had a good writer do his letters or he could string together a damn fine paragraph.
And pretty awesome OP too Mr Bo. You get my seal of approval.
If you don’t want fame, don’t get famous. If you do want fame, suck it up that there will be people following your every move. If you get famous, and hate the side-effects so much, do a Harper Lee or a Salinger routine.
Simple.
And surely, SURELY, initiating court proceedings is just a greater guarantee that you will be in the public spotlight. FFS, yep, cry me a river like Bo said.
One the one hand, you have rich, celebrity douchebags complaining about the very thing that made them rich.
On the other hand, the paparazzi.
When your job is hiding in a bush with a telephoto lens hoping to get a grainy shot of Steven Tyler eating Cheerios, nothing the law can do to you is undeserved. Douchebag celebrities unite!
Nope. I’ve tried, and all I can see is that twat who keeps writing about throwing stuff in quarries.
If the OP ever has an interesting point he should perhaps ask somebody else to present it on his behalf, because its hard to look past who the poster is, its the quarry guy, and that guys a cocknugget.
Would be nice to have the text of the bill, rather than a rather vague article.
One point that needs to be made is that there are certain careers where success means you and your work are famous. If you’re a rock star, you go from arena to arena, playing your music in front of huge crowds, your music is played on the radio, and you have videos on YouTube. If you’re a movie star, your face is on movie screens in every multiplex from coast to coast, and DVDs of your movies are in wide circulation.
I don’t think any of this success and fame means you’re giving up the right to a private life. Your public persona is famous; your day-to-day existence doesn’t have to be, unless you choose to make it so. That doesn’t mean nobody should have the right to take a picture of you when you’re in a public place, but you shouldn’t have to worry about people snapping pictures from helicopters of you sunbathing in what would otherwise be your private back yard.
OTOH, if you’re rich and famous, and you haven’t done the obvious stuff to create some private space (large lots, privacy fences, tall hedges) that at least protects you from ground-level photographers, then gimme a break. Move into a gated community, if nothing else. Yes, if you’ve got money to spare, you can create an environment where you can grill steaks or even sunbathe nude in the backyard free from ground-level intrusion.
Maybe all bets are off if part of your fame comes from your trading on what would otherwise be your private life, but that’s another story.
I’m serious. 20 years from now, when everyone’s walking around with Google Glasses and facial recognition has made anonymity a thing of the past, all the cool people will be out window shopping in air conditioned Venetian Carnevalemasks. Best get in on that early.
I’m going to patent a 21st century bedouin robe. It’ll mask your face, heat, and gait, whilst outputting randomly harvested dna and pheromone samples. That’ll cover it until AIs develop telepathy at least.
What? No umbrella with electronic dohickeys to fudge up camera focus or some shit? Why don’t places in hollywood have back door, underground entrances if it’s what celebs want?
(Hint it’s not what they want. What they want is to be in front of cameras, even if for testifying for/against something stupid. It still counts, it’s in front of a camera.)
So what about people like Jody Foster or Neil Young, who somehow manage to promote their art but somehow magically not end up in tabloids. Do we even know what their children look like? Sorry, too many celebs manage to stay entirely off the radar for it to seem in any way undoable.
According to Jodie Foster herself, there’s nothing “magical” about not ending up in tabloids, just constant hard work and endurance. And she feels it’s much more difficult for young stars nowadays than it was for her:
As for me, I think the whole celebrity-privacy thing is a no-brainer. It is rude to be nosy about strangers’ personal lives or to stare at strangers or otherwise obtrude your attention on strangers. Period. Nosiness doesn’t become not-rude just because gossip magazines are willing to pay a fat fee for the pickings.
It can be hard to feel sympathy for celebrities who seem to spend half their time courting media attention and the other half complaining about lack of privacy from media attention. Nonetheless, their complaints are valid. Nosiness about other people’s personal lives is rude.
And while I usually have no time for famous people complaining about being famous, it’s worth pointing out that Jodie Foster, of all people, might know about the unintended consequences of becoming famous. I don’t doubt that event has contributed to her determined efforts to stay out of the spotlight.
I don’t think there’s anything unreasonable about this. I mean, yeah, if you don’t want to be famous you can jack it in and drive a truck, but that’s not really an option for Tyler (among others).
Celebrities aren’t interested in privacy the way us normal folk think of it, they are interested in maintaining complete, lucrative control over their images and everything else about themselves. It’s all about the profit. It’s uncomfortable defending paparazzi but I don’t think the government needs to get involved in this. Waving their arms and shouting “look at me, look at me” is the business of many celebrities and they shouldn’t get to control who looks.
