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April 19, 2006

Bad Taste

If you needed any more proof that Tom Cruise was flaky, here you go. Yeah, what a joke. Ha ha, you so funny. (Actually, when I heard about it, an old farmer's joke was the first thing that popped into my head. I'll put it after the fold, cuz it's kinda gross if you're unfamiliar with the realities of farm life.)

The whole Scientology thing just cracks me up anyway. What a scam to help flaky rich people expunge their guilt by getting rid of money. Not too surprising that it attracts a lot of actors. Just think about it, they're paid to pretend they're someone else. And most of them take that way too seriously. Frankly, if they weren't actors, we'd call them by another title.

Crazy.

And we in society hold them up to be our role models? Puh-lease. If I wanted a crazy person for my role model, I'd find someone more interesting. Like a schizophrenic.

I think we had it right when back in the day, entertainers in general were held in the same esteem as prostitutes.

It goes something like this:

The farmer's wife goes into labor, and the doctor isn't able to get there in time. But he tells the farmer to go ahead & deliver the baby, that it really isn't any different than helping a cow birth a calf.

So later the doctor calls back to check on them, and asks the farmer how it went.

"Pretty good doc, but I had a helluva time getting her to eat the afterbirth."

For all you city folk, animals routinely eat their own afterbirth....I imagine it's an instinctual behavior to keep predators from being attracked by the smell. And I've read that it also contains certain things that help the animal recover quickly from the birth.

Kinda gross yes, but real life generally is.

Posted by Rita at April 19, 2006 09:55 AM

Comments

Is it the fame, the money, the adulation, the being surrounded by "yes men" that turns these people into lunatics?

I'll bet he wasn't nuts in back in the day when he was scratching around for auditions -- for anything.

Posted by: Jim - PRS at April 19, 2006 07:37 PM

I don't think that makes them nuts, just worse. From the 'actors' I've met, most of them aren't much different from strippers....narcissistic exhibitionists. But instead of taking off their clothes to get attention, they create another personality.

Weird.

As you can tell, I don't think much of most actors. Sure they're entertaining to watch, but so are monkeys.

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 19, 2006 07:57 PM