Dan in Details magazine

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> Geoff:
> I think it may be a personal reaction to the article but I would 
not 
> have expected a piece written in that  form in a UK magazine.
< HUGE SNIP>

Alla:

Okay, I feel wierd because it is you Geoff, but the more you are 
explaining your position the more it makes me raise my eyebrows. UK 
magazines do not write sensationalistic articles about celebrities?

Like none of them? At all? Okay, if this is true, then my hat goes 
off to them, really.

Before I go further let me say it and now I see that maybe I was not 
clear enough in my previous posts, yes, I see what you mean about 
some points of the article, sensationalistic and all. I guess I was 
just dismissing them and loving it because it was a surprise for me 
to see Dan's intelligence and bookishness, no matter even if writer 
felt compelled to touch on something that will make audience think - 
Oh, yeah, he does at least do something that can make us relate him 
to some silly american celebrities, even if Dan is not really like 
that at all. So yes, sure, point taken.

But isn't it a bit stereotypical to say that it is, I don't know, 
americanized necessarily equals sensationalistic?

As I said in my previous posts, I have not read many articles about 
Dan, in fact if I read two, that is pretty much it, or maybe even one.

I thought this one was well done, because I seen much worse in yellow 
press magazines. That trash I do not read, actually no, I took couple 
of issues of US, Enquirer and something else from my colleagues and 
read from start to finish. I wanted to know what they are all about.

My education on that topic was completed. 

What I am trying to say is that when I first came to America, I was 
very surprised to see such celebrity based culture and intense desire 
to know OMG who married whom and who divorced whom and who married 
whom again and who had sex with whom at the party. I was thinking oh 
dear people, that is news for you? Why would you care?

And then, I started thinking and I realised that no intense desire to 
know all about the celebrities is NOT the specific feature of 
America, it is really not.

Back in Ukraine, or even when it was Soviet Union, people somehow 
managed to know what soviet actors did, who married whom and who 
divorced whom. Well, ok, I guess there was not much talk about sex 
during the the parties, because as we all know, we did not have sex 
in Soviet Union ( JOKE, infamous joke).

People talked and when press got more freedom, well yeah, yellow 
press developed back there too and when i went to visit this year, 
there was plenty of press like that, talking about celebrities and 
all.

I think it is everywhere. I applaud Brits if they do not have press 
like that.

So what I am trying to say is that I think that this writer managed 
to do ok, even if he did not avoid all stereotypes of writing about 
celebrities.

JMO,

Alla