Re: Salinger, Dylan, and more Salinger
Lauren N Passot (madbravo@juno.com)
Wed, 09 Sep 1998 19:53:01 -0500
On Wed, 09 Sep 1998 07:53:18 -0400 Robert Morris <winboog@gis.net>
writes:
>
>>
>> > >Kurt Cobain?
>> >
>> > derriviative musician
>>
>> ???
>>
>> > with a heroin habit to cure tummy ache+ shotgun=
>> > dead media whore
>>
>> Let's alter this very simplistic little occasion
>>
>> mental instability+some idiot journalist causing his child to be
>taken
>> away+childhood traumas from selfish parents+constant media attention
>=
>> death
>>
>
> Yeah, I imagine that Jann Wenner had to use a similar shotgun to
>the one
>Kurt turned on himself to get him on the cover of Rolling Stone
>several
>times.
>
>
>> >
>> > An argument could
>> > > be made that these people died as a result of fame and media
>> > > exploitation.
>> >
>> > You know who I think deserves this designation? Lennon. He's
>the
>only
>> > one in recent times I can think of to actually earn the title of
>artistic
>> > martyr. Saying that any of these other self destructive
>megalomaniacs
>as
>> > suffered the pressures of media and the public turns my stomach.
>>
>> Now, I think that's something you can only say if you're famous. And
>you're
>> not famous, cause I never heard of you.
>>
>
> Yeah Camille, I don't know pressure. I'd have to be famous to
>realize
>what that is. During Shaquille O'Neal's rookie season there was a
>media
>frenzy in every city he visited, concerning his designation as the
>savior.
>While here in Boston a reporter said;
>
>" How do you deal with all the pressure being put on you?"
>
>" What?"-Shaq
>
>" How do you deal with all the pressure?"
>
>" What?"
>
>" How do you deal with all the pressure of being seen as a savior to
>an NBA
>franchise or even the NBA in general?"
>
>" I don't have any pressure. I play basketball. Pressure is being
>worried
>about feeding your kids. "
>
> So all these fallen celebrities don't rate in my book. Cause I see
>people suffering pressure every day. Celebrity media is just a damn
>nuissance.
>
>
> robert morris
> winboog@gis.net
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Indeed. But where would we be without the media? Does cultural lag ring a
bell?
Best,
Lauren
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