{"id":126,"date":"2011-10-11T17:17:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T00:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harperkingsley.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/11\/thoughts-famous-people\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:38:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:38:40","slug":"thoughts-famous-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/thoughts-famous-people\/","title":{"rendered":"THOUGHTS: Famous People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an insatiable curiosity about the weird things some famous people get up to.\u00a0 It&#8217;s cool to see new pictures of their babies, to hear stories about things they&#8217;ve seen or done, and to basically see them in their everyday lives.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to see famous people coming across as normal, but sometimes there are some personality quirks that famous people should keep to themselves.\u00a0 I want to believe in the image they portray, and I don&#8217;t really want to have my liking of an actor or actress shattered by real life.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing worse than having a writer or an actor or actress go all prima donna on their fans.\u00a0 To have them personally take over their message boards and just go all crazy with Super Me-ness.\u00a0 Things just get out of control, they get all spun up by their delusions of grandeur, and at the end of it all you have someone that calls their own fans idiots, deletes any post that doesn&#8217;t stroke their ego, and a mess of hurt feelings.<\/p>\n<p>I think that when someone starts getting way too big for themselves, someone should just step in, stare them right in the face, and say, &#8220;Wake up.\u00a0 You&#8217;re just a dude.\u00a0 If you treat your fans like crap, they&#8217;re not going to buy your book\/movie\/CD.\u00a0 You&#8217;re going to still have a ton of money, but you&#8217;ll have totally alienated your fanbase and all your new stuff will sadly crash and burn on release.\u00a0 So if you want to be a dick, then go right ahead.\u00a0 But don&#8217;t boohoo about it when no one cares about you in two years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an insatiable curiosity about the weird things some famous people get up to.\u00a0 It&#8217;s cool to see new pictures of their babies, to hear stories about things they&#8217;ve seen or done, and to basically see them in their everyday lives.<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/thoughts-famous-people\/\" title=\"THOUGHTS: Famous People\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THOUGHTS: Famous People<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74],"tags":[727],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","has-more-link","post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-things-no-one-told-me","tag-tnotm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-22","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":619,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/so-famous-you-transcend-fame\/","url_meta":{"origin":126,"position":0},"title":"So Famous You Transcend Fame","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"April 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Johnny Depp is the kind of famous where he could stop acting in movies, have lost all his money, and could be residing in a dumpster - and people would still recognize his name and face. 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