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Joe
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Username: Gonets
Post Number: 594
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 6, 2005 - 9:09 pm: | 
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inspired by Duncan's musings on sbenois' "Hollywood Imbecile Of the Moment: Richard Gere" thread, what would you use your fame for if you were a celebrity....
All answers, serious and glib alike, would be appreciated. Haven't decided whether I want to be glib or serious. So, I'll let someone else start. |
Wendyn
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Username: Wendyn
Post Number: 1228
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 8:15 am: |
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Get a hot date, of course. What a silly question.
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Mark Fuhrman
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Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 1081
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 8:46 am: |
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Wendyn  . Perfect answer! |
thegoodsgt
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Username: Thegoodsgt
Post Number: 720
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 8:54 am: |
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If I were a celebrity I would use my fame to...encourage people to spend less time listening to celebrities like me and more time learning about the issues affecting our society.
Then -- assuming I wasn't married to my current, beautiful wife in this hypothetical fantasy world -- I'd find a way to go on a date with Natalie Portman, with the hope that she's not as ditzy as she came off on The Actor's Studio.
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Joe
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Username: Gonets
Post Number: 596
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 10:33 am: |
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goodsgt,
Encouraging people to spend less time listening to celebrities about the issues of the day was an answer I was going to give. But really some of these celebrities do this with good intentions, recognizing that they can bring a lot of exposure to a particular issue. The problem is with the segment of people who think what celebrities say and do is all that important and news media that may ignore an important issue until Angelina Jolie decides to do a press conference about it.
Didn't see Natalie Portman on the Actor's Studio, but she's a young kid (is she even 20?). I did catch her on the "Daily Show" and she seemed pretty sharp there and cute and unassuming. I'm thinking that she's a nice kid who's a little thrown off by James Lipton's sycophantic interviewing style. |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 3624
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 11:00 am: |
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I think Natalie Portman is an Ivy League grad (as is Reese Witherspoon).
Anyway, I would use my status to spend most of my time with a personal trainer, maintaining my fabulous bod & allowing him/her to profit by writing a book "Get Fit with Greenetree's Personal Trainer".
I would grow old gracefully and naturally, while publicly insinuating that women who have plastic surgery are not role models and need to learn to accept themselves.
Then, I would choose a pet charity & be a celebrity spokesperson. I want to be in the intellectual, dignified superstar club (more Meryl Streep than Paris Hilton).
But, then, I'd have to work. I guess being famous for being famous has it's perks.... |
shh
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 2008
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 11:43 am: |
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I like that. I also like Wendy's idea.
I would think of myself as a great advertisment, and expect tons of cool clothes—to hang on my perfect size 1 frame...ok, I'd have to get breast implants but that's the price you pay...I'd get small ones so they looked perfectly natural...just a D would be right for my frame I guess...wait the camera does add ten pounds, better off sticking with the C—and I'd walk around Soho (and the East Village when I was feeling daring) shopping, meeting friends for fabulous lunches, go to all the museums, take yoga and pilates classes (I'd have to...I mean, I'm naturally fabulous, but not perfect!) shoot a few films per year (never leaving my husband and kids for more than two weeks of course) and when I wasn't shooting a movie or shopping, taking classes or having fabulous lunches downtown, I'd be volunteering at my kid's school, because no matter what being a mom is the most important, fulfilling job in the world.
Basically, I'd be me, only better! |
cjc
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Username: Cjc
Post Number: 2978
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 12:45 pm: |
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Meryl Streep did a bang-up job on Alar. Just ask the apple farmers of WA State. |
Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 617
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 1:00 pm: |
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shh - |
shh
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 2009
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 1:07 pm: |
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I guess you'd have to know me to find that amusing.
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Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 618
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 1:09 pm: |
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....<gasp> can't.... breath....
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shh
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 2011
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 2:21 pm: |
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Now I'm laughing too!
Tears rolling down!
How is it we can do that to each other in person AND online! |
Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 619
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 2:31 pm: |
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I don't know! Isn't that crazy? Everyone at work is looking at me like I'm nuts! |
shh
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 2014
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 2:40 pm: |
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How long have they known you?
Is this supposed to be news?
Check your email, I sent you some menu thoughts. Get off MOL! I knew I'd find you here! |
gozerbrown
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Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 598
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 3:50 pm: |
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I'd use my celebrity to get lots of free pieces of junk that I wouldn't have to pay for like those goody bags they give out at the Oscars. (I read that Nicky Hilton and her sister were actually given free memberships to Equinox. As if they can't pay for it themselves.)
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Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 621
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 5:09 pm: |
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gozer - that's one of the things that make me CRAZY about "celebrity"- the idea that these very wealthy people get so much free stuff.
You know, Equinox should give some poor fat overweight schlub a free membership, not the freakin' Hilton sisters. Gimme me a break.
If I were a celebrity, I'd use my fame to try to eradicate the concept of "celebrity" |
Matt Foley
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Username: Mattfoley
Post Number: 64
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 5:19 pm: |
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1)Take all the original prints of The Little Rascals and lock them away in my personal vault forever. Only to offer them on special order video or DVD when I need the extra cash.
2)use my public status to tell people how to vote.
3)hire a goon squad to quash all rumors about me and gerbils.
3.5)have goons stomp paparazzi at my whim.
4)fabricate an alleged drug overdose story about myself and how doctors brought me back from the dead.
5)privately mock the poor suckers who are not me. |
Ukealalio
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Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 1646
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 5:24 pm: |
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But Matt would you come back to MOL when Straw posted that you and him were best friends and he used to party with you and tell him he was lying ?. |
aquaman
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Username: Aquaman
Post Number: 236
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 7:29 pm: |
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I would use my celebrity to get a G-dd-amn glass of still water - how hard is that? What did they teach you at f-ing community college anyhow?
NOT Sparkling for the Love of GOD! STILL! What part of STILL don't you effing understand???
Oh, is this thing on? If I was famous I would use my position to help others, especially the people in the Conga Islands who suffered from the tornado tsunami.
Have a Blessed New Year,
Aquaman |
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