Can A Celebrity's Marriage Be Successful?
In case you haven't heard, Madonna and Guy Ritchie are getting divorced. Numerous tabloid magazine covers blasting it out to us have made this fact abundantly clear. It's impossible to miss.
An unintentionally amusing statement originally announced their divorce. It included a sentence asking the media for privacy. Yeah, right. Celebrities can't have it both ways. They can't ask people to watch them constantly, via the media, and then slam the door shut when their life takes a rough turn.
The draw to these stories, I think, is first and foremost, the natural enjoyment we have for watching a car wreck. We like to witness the drama and the excitement. We're fascinated when a celebrity's life takes a downturn.
I think that we also enjoy seeing what was once a mystery, finally revealed. We've sat in wonder at the marriage of these two famous people. We wonder how anyone with that kind of fame and fortune could really have a healthy home life as well. So the mystery is revealed, in big and flashy truth--they were not happy!
On one hand, we envy and want to emulate famous and rich people. We envy their status and their luxurious lives. We envy just about everything we imagine them to have. They seem successful, and we covet it.
But we also hope that they'll fail. This may be due in part to jealousy, but I think a lot of it is a desire to see reality. We want their lives to crumble so that our lives will be justified.
All of that larger-than-life glamour is revealed as what we've always suspected--her life is unrealistic. Madonna likes to pretend that it's possible to be a super successful sex symbol, with an exotic artist's life, full of wealth and privilege. But we know the truth. Even her so-called spiritual side is thrown in question when we see all of the spiteful behavior that they're exhibiting.
But when we see her entire life falling apart, we see that it was all a show. The sad fact is that the reality makes a better show than what she contrived. - 2361
An unintentionally amusing statement originally announced their divorce. It included a sentence asking the media for privacy. Yeah, right. Celebrities can't have it both ways. They can't ask people to watch them constantly, via the media, and then slam the door shut when their life takes a rough turn.
The draw to these stories, I think, is first and foremost, the natural enjoyment we have for watching a car wreck. We like to witness the drama and the excitement. We're fascinated when a celebrity's life takes a downturn.
I think that we also enjoy seeing what was once a mystery, finally revealed. We've sat in wonder at the marriage of these two famous people. We wonder how anyone with that kind of fame and fortune could really have a healthy home life as well. So the mystery is revealed, in big and flashy truth--they were not happy!
On one hand, we envy and want to emulate famous and rich people. We envy their status and their luxurious lives. We envy just about everything we imagine them to have. They seem successful, and we covet it.
But we also hope that they'll fail. This may be due in part to jealousy, but I think a lot of it is a desire to see reality. We want their lives to crumble so that our lives will be justified.
All of that larger-than-life glamour is revealed as what we've always suspected--her life is unrealistic. Madonna likes to pretend that it's possible to be a super successful sex symbol, with an exotic artist's life, full of wealth and privilege. But we know the truth. Even her so-called spiritual side is thrown in question when we see all of the spiteful behavior that they're exhibiting.
But when we see her entire life falling apart, we see that it was all a show. The sad fact is that the reality makes a better show than what she contrived. - 2361
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