2010-07-15

Thank You, Mel Gibson.

Let's give a big shout out to Mel Gibson this week. Really.

Why? Because he's shown us once and for all how great the internet is.

In recorded phone conversations, the cuddly star of the "Mad Max" franchise is heard adamantly stating his right to regular oral gratification in between bouts of huffing and panting like a bulldog with a sinus infection attempting to impregnate a Great Dane. If you haven't heard at least some reference to it, you're spending too much time playing Farmville. It's MAJOR NEWS. It's a leak considered only slightly less catastrophic than the one in the Gulf.

What's Mel's problem? I don't know, and even though I am dedicating my small corner of the web to it today, I don't really care. I've checked in at other sites here and there, the comments sections of which are loaded with desktop psychiatrists offering their opinions. It's amazing to me, in this age of the regular electronic airing of dirty laundry, that people are still "shocked and disappointed" when a public figure does something really ugly and stupid. There's no studio system anymore, with coteries of publicists working overtime to make stars shinier. To be a "celebrity" today is to invite constant intrusion and to live with the knowledge that your every imperfection can and will show up on TMZ. Imagine how much more we would have known about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton if the internet had been around during the filming of "Cleopatra." We would have been subjected to countless photos of Liz&Dick doctored via MS Paint on perezhilton.com:

Now we live in a world where we get treated to endless speculation as to the alcoholic content of the clear liquid in Lindsay Lohan's "water bottle." We are informed that - OMGWTFLOLASPCA! - Keira Knightley and Reese Witherspoon wore the exact same dress and that Reese wore it better because Keira is anorexic, probably. We can log in and learn that Mel Gibson is an abusive, self-entitled asshat.

Stars: they're just like us!

lisamcc at 10:42 a.m.

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