[HPFGU-OTChatter] Celebrity worship annoying? (was: Re: Colin/Dennis Crevey)

[Michela Ecks]

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From: Jen <jfaulkne at eden.rutgers.edu>
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Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 2:16 PM
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Celebrity worship annoying? (was: Re:
Colin/Dennis Crevey)


> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Joanne Collins <joannec at h...> wrote:
> >
> > I know that the 'teenybopper' phase is annoying, but how many of us
> can
> > honestly say that we don't have a crush on one (or more *g*)
> celebrities
> > because we find them attractive and interesting and enjoy a movie
> with them
> > in it or the music they make?
>
> Problems, yes, can occur, when it goes 'too far' -- stalking, or
> inability to form a real life relationship ('cause nothing compares
> to the crush) -- but celebrities aren't the only ones to inspire that
> sort of pathological devotion.

This reminds me....  About a year ago, I went to New York with one of my
best friends to meet my long time net friend.  We went to see "The View"
because we're all fans of that show.  (Technically, I'm a huge fan of
Meridith Viera and the rest strike me as annoying, inspid, etc.)  Right
where the View is filmed, one of the soap opera produced by ABC is filmed.
The soap stars came out and had their pictures taken with fans and talked to
fans.  We walked a block away and we saw a woman who looked about 30 fanning
her face, looking giggly on the phone with some one.  Her teenage daughter
(I assume to the person was her daughter) was near by and looking equally
stunned.  The woman was going on and on and on about how she met this soap
star and touched him and how exciting it was, etc.

Later that day, my friends and I went to Times Square and we saw the lovely
building where "TRL" is filmed with its masses and masses of people...  And
each indivudally looked a lot like that 30 year old woman....

Which leads me to the conclusion that this really isn't a teeny bopper
obsession thing :o)  It's an all around person thing... that every one does
and adults, because they have money and greater access to certain places,
can be just as bad or worse.  (There is a story about adult women bidding to
get Robert Duncan McNeil ,who played Tom Paris on Voyager, to take his shirt
off at a convention...  but I won't go into details.)

For my own self, I have a healthy obsession with Pierce Brosnan...  I drove
5 hours to Canada to see "Grey Owl" and in 1999, I maintained a web page
with information on him...  I've a nice little fantasy about doing him...
but that's as far as my obsession will go because I wouldn't want to meet
him because no one really matches up to their fantasy image...  (Nor, should
they really...)

Michela Ecks