Now I’m normally not one to get caught up in celebrity feuds and all that adoopla. Honestly it always feels a little like high school to me…oooh Katie and Julie are fighting and that’s really sad because they were such good friends and now who knows if they will pull it together and even though neither one of them knows I exist and if she did, wouldn’t piss in a bucket if I was on fire, somehow this affects my life.
But I was yaHooing the other day and came across some article about a “huge” feud (read: slow news day) between John Hamm and Kim Kardashian.
In some interview, John Hamm said: Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated. Being a fucking idiot is a valuable commodity in this culture because you're rewarded significantly."
Kim, on Twitter, gave her response: “I respect Jon and I am a firm believer that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and that not everyone takes the same path in life. We're all working hard and we all have to respect one another. Calling someone who runs their own businesses, is a part of a successful TV show, produces, writes, designs, and creates, 'stupid,' is in my opinion careless."
And, shocking as it may seem, I have to agree with HER.
I think it’s way too easy to dismiss someone of her ilk (the Paris’s, the Jessica’s, the Situation’s et al) as being stupid. As someone who has spent a good chunk of his life trying to make a dollar and a dime in this business of show, and for the most part, except that one time in 2000, having FAILED miserably at said task, I can attest that it takes a special kind of savvy and drive and ambition and smarts to make a dent in the sand of the Entertainment world…and Kim has built an empire there.
And before you toss that accomplishment off and say “whatever, she got famous because of a sex tape”, let me point out to you that there are a ton of people with sex tapes. Pam Anderson has a sex tape. Amy Fisher has a sex tape. Joanie Laurer has a sex tape. Dustin fucking Diamond has a sex tape. But I don’t think they have clothing lines and perfumes and multiple reality shows. I don’t believe Screech could sell the rights to his wedding in prime time.
So I have to disagree with Mr. Hamm.
Kim Kardashian is not a fucking idiot.
Kim Kardashian is a fucking shithead.
And the fact that she is uber smart, creative and business savvy makes her even MORE of a shithead.
And the real problem is that somehow she’s also become a role model and there are a ton of girls aspiring to be shitheads too. I wanna be famous I wanna be famous I wanna be famous and it doesn’t matter what for. Fame is not just its own reward any more. FAME is the end result, instead of being a byproduct of DOING SOMETHING COOL. And that is the real shame of all these shows. They’ve stopped inspiring people to be creative. Why do I have to make art and bare my soul when I can bare my ass and get there all the faster.
Now in the interest of full disclosure I have to, for the record, state that I despise reality television. And, as I was once on a reality show (Starz Network’s Looking for Stars), you may call me a hypocrite but I just think that I have perspective…hypocritical perspective granted but it’s still perspective so shuttayouface.
It’s a cliché to say that Reality TV is as scripted as Desperate Housewives but it’s also true. The themes of these shows are well thought out and planned in advance. There are probably story sessions where each of the “real” characters arcs are meticulously planned.
And, I guess, according to Kim, as she “produces and writes”, she’s involved in these meetings. That means…
That means at some point, she had to develop an idea: I will get married and it’ll be a prime time special that I can sell ads and pocket millions and THEN I will quickly file for divorce right before the season of my show comes out that will document the dissolution of my marriage thereby giving folks ample time to get really pissed off but then they won’t be able to NOT watch my show; the ones who doubt my marriage was legit will watch for clues so they can yell “SEE!!!!” and the ones who believe will watch with teary eyes and say “AWWWWWWWWWWW” but they will ALL BE WATCHING. This is not only the work of someone with intelligence but also a lot of BALLS.
To conceive of a plan so devious takes great mental acuity. We’re talking Keyser Soze. But really…what’s the fucking point?
Because why not do something great, Kim?
If you want to be a narcissist, be a narcissist. Hell, you’d be in the company of some truly bad ass artists. I, myself, have been accused of narcissism and I’m a loser (by society’s standards, not my mama’s). There’s nothing wrong with being a narcissist. There’s nothing wrong about being rich.
There’s not even anything wrong with being famous.
But can’t you at least be famous because of something instead of being something because you’re famous?
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