Celebrities

When the Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson divorce thing came out, CNN reported that Kid Rock blew up at Pamela Anderson about her appearance in the Borat movie. He supposedly yelled at her for exposing her private life and causing herself embarassment, and something about whether or not she had any self-respect. Whether any of that is true or not, I don't know. But when I read that, I thought: This is a woman who among other things, posed nude numerous times for Playboy, made a sex tape with one man, and after that became VERY public, made another sex tape with a different man. What the heck did Kid Rock expect?

Speaking of Playboy bunnies, my life is such right now that I watch ALOT of TV, and I decided to check out a few episodes of "The Girls Next Door" on E!, which is a reality show about Hef's three current girlfriends. One episode had Hef and the girls doing a press tour in New York, publicizing an issue of Playboy that had a spread (insert Beavis and Butthead laugh here) of all three girlfriends in it. They went through a long, grueling set of interviews, and in the limo afterwards, the girls complained about the fact that everyone asked about the sexual relations between Hef and the girls. Now, even if you are running around the country publicizing your naked pictures and the fact that you are Hef's girlfriends, that doesn't mean that people have a right to know your personal business. But, not only should you not be surprised and upset that people are asking about your sex life, you should expect it. You're the ones who are "putting it out there".

In another episode, they were in London, and while being driven around to sight-seeing places (in a private bus with a private tour guide), the youngest girlfriend asked where the Queen was, and why the Queen wouldn't want to just drop her public commitments on a moments notice to meet a man as great as Hef. She kept pushing the point, and pushing the point, and the tour guide showed impressive restraint (or else the producers edited it out) in not telling her that the queen isn't going to simply bail on her countrymen to meet someone she may very well consider to be nothing more than a dirty old man. A little later, they were in the London Dungeons, wandered away from the tour, and got lost. They were literally walking around in circles, trying to find their way out, when the girls started saying "Hello Cleveland!". I had to back the Tivo up to make sure that I heard correctly. Here were three girls who really hadn't come off as the brightest or wittiest people, making an obscure yet funny reference to "Spinal Tap".

Peter Boyle passed away today (12/13/06). I have nothing to make fun of him, because as far as I know, he never went "commando" in front of paparazzi while clubbing with Paris Hilton, or made a sex tape, or had three girlfriends at once, or drove the wrong way down the freeway while on drugs. We are all human, and with the unrelenting coverage that some of these celebrities get nowadays, any little misstep is highly publicized and overblown. I mean, when someone films Paris Hilton going into a fast-food restaurant, and one of those dumb tabloid shows airs it, it has gotten ridiculous. I'd hate to think what mistakes I've done over the years that would have been publicized if I had such a following. But then again, I have yet to drive down the wrong way on a freeway. And while I don't think as many people would have googled pictures of Peter Boyle going commando, he seemed to make it through a much much longer career without doing anything that stupid.

---jps