I suppose if you’re a celebrity, it’s gotta be annoying sometimes to
have strangers taking pictures of you as you walk down the street, but maybe
it’s not as annoying as all that. Certainly Taylor Swift, op cit, doesn’t
always turned her back on the paparazzi.
Equally, as annoyances go, it must be a double-edged sword. As a celeb you certainly want attention, it’s
a matter of wanting the “right kind” of attention.
No doubt there are some who find it a kind a relief when they cease to
be an object of general photographic fascination, but I imagine a lot more of
them find it a very depressing sign that their star is fading.
I once had some filmic dealings with the actor/director Griffin Dunne
who starred in Who’s That Girl opposite Madonna. It was at a time when Madonna seemed a good
deal more fascinating than she does now, and like some fan boy rube I found
myself asking Griffin, “So what’s Madonna really like.” He said he honestly had no idea, he hadn’t got to know her at all in
the course of making the movie, but he said, “I think she must be the loneliest
woman in the world.”
Those I’m pretty sure were his actual words, his point being that she
was so surrounded by her people, so insulated from real contact, that nobody
ever made any kind of personal connection with her.
I suspect that hasn’t changed much.
And she’s still a focus for the paparazzi and I’m sure that if I saw
Madonna walking down the street I’d be tempted to raise my Canon. I realize this wouldn’t make her feel any
less lonely.
And yes, I do wonder what on earth’s going on with that right calf of
hers in the picture above.
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