- Sep 22, 2013
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Does celebrity-culture inspire fantastic storytelling (e.g., James Dean)?
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Americans like shopping and movies and even sci-fi storytellers talk about great galleries of toy-like beings (e.g., robots) who represent a social fascination with daydreams and consumer comforts. That's why Veronica was so interested in celebrity diaries.
Veronica wanted to find the 'ultimate' celebrity campfire-story. Perhaps Leo DiCaprio encountered Bigfoot. Perhaps Tom Cruise smoked hashish in Morocco. Perhaps Charlize Theron plays Ouija. Veronica needed the right dose of folklore and pedestrian junk-food so her celebrity diary presentation would reap great rewards from a very sceptical public.
Americans love toys and make the best toys in the world. American toy companies (Hasbro, Mattel, Fisher-Price) and American toy stores (Toys 'R Us) are considered the very best in the world. Many American celebrities purchased iconic toys when they were kids. Maybe Leo DiCaprio played with water-guns and daydreamed about being a guerrilla soldier or eco-warrior! Veronica wanted to know the 'inner-workings' of the society-symbolic 'celebrity mind.'
As Veronica considered why young girls purchased toy jewelry and dolls, she considered why adult women liked complex 'treasure-consciousness' films such as Celebrity, Mannequin, and Unbreakable. Veronica concluded there was something in the American psyche that made 'toy-hunting' somewhat exciting, which is why celebrities were considered 'trophies' or 'idols' and why celebrities themselves were fascinated with media and technology! It was a 'jewel-box' country...
Veronica got frustrated and decided to cook up a yarn about a group of celebrities and fellow actor-friends who decide to go camping one summer together and encounter a terrifying species of invading aliens called 'Xenomorphs.' Veronica was able to sell this bologna-tale to supermarket tabloids, and it did generate a modest amount of public interest. Many considered the possibility that celebrities camping might run into predatory intelligent aliens from another planet/dimension curious about luxury on Earth. Veronica wrote that the celebrities/actors who met with the 'Xenomorphs' decided that the aliens were psychic about consumerism vanities/corruptions (e.g., Enron, Fisher-Buttafuoco, Napster, OJ Simpson trial, etc.)(!). Veronica wrote that the camping celebrities/actors engaging with the aliens split up into teams to deal with the ferocious beings but some of them (the non-famous actors, not the celebrities) simply disappeared...
As Veronica pondered how her supermarket tabloid tale was sufficient to generate modest interest and fair profits and provide her the necessary commendation from her superiors/boss to obtain personal salary, she feared how America's brand of 'capitalism fascination' was drawing the undesirable attention of anti-Western terrorist groups such as ISIS. Would terrorists consider 'pedestrian-frill' films such as Celebrity and 'commerce-frill' video-games such as SimCity symbolic of modernism sloth? Maybe 9/11 was a statement of disgust towards supermarket celebrity tabloids...
After Veronica contemplated all this, she decided her modest achievement was sufficient to pay the bills and make her feel spiritually content. She decided to retire to the Virgin Islands and read Sydney Sheldon crime-drama/romance novels. Veronica met a nice handsome sailor at the islands named Kurt who shared her interest in 'Americana culture.' The two married and enjoyed watching films such as Toys (Robin Williams), Coming to America (Eddie Murphy), and America's Sweethearts (Julia Roberts) on Netflix.
THE END
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Americans like shopping and movies and even sci-fi storytellers talk about great galleries of toy-like beings (e.g., robots) who represent a social fascination with daydreams and consumer comforts. That's why Veronica was so interested in celebrity diaries.
Veronica wanted to find the 'ultimate' celebrity campfire-story. Perhaps Leo DiCaprio encountered Bigfoot. Perhaps Tom Cruise smoked hashish in Morocco. Perhaps Charlize Theron plays Ouija. Veronica needed the right dose of folklore and pedestrian junk-food so her celebrity diary presentation would reap great rewards from a very sceptical public.
Americans love toys and make the best toys in the world. American toy companies (Hasbro, Mattel, Fisher-Price) and American toy stores (Toys 'R Us) are considered the very best in the world. Many American celebrities purchased iconic toys when they were kids. Maybe Leo DiCaprio played with water-guns and daydreamed about being a guerrilla soldier or eco-warrior! Veronica wanted to know the 'inner-workings' of the society-symbolic 'celebrity mind.'
As Veronica considered why young girls purchased toy jewelry and dolls, she considered why adult women liked complex 'treasure-consciousness' films such as Celebrity, Mannequin, and Unbreakable. Veronica concluded there was something in the American psyche that made 'toy-hunting' somewhat exciting, which is why celebrities were considered 'trophies' or 'idols' and why celebrities themselves were fascinated with media and technology! It was a 'jewel-box' country...
Veronica got frustrated and decided to cook up a yarn about a group of celebrities and fellow actor-friends who decide to go camping one summer together and encounter a terrifying species of invading aliens called 'Xenomorphs.' Veronica was able to sell this bologna-tale to supermarket tabloids, and it did generate a modest amount of public interest. Many considered the possibility that celebrities camping might run into predatory intelligent aliens from another planet/dimension curious about luxury on Earth. Veronica wrote that the celebrities/actors who met with the 'Xenomorphs' decided that the aliens were psychic about consumerism vanities/corruptions (e.g., Enron, Fisher-Buttafuoco, Napster, OJ Simpson trial, etc.)(!). Veronica wrote that the camping celebrities/actors engaging with the aliens split up into teams to deal with the ferocious beings but some of them (the non-famous actors, not the celebrities) simply disappeared...
As Veronica pondered how her supermarket tabloid tale was sufficient to generate modest interest and fair profits and provide her the necessary commendation from her superiors/boss to obtain personal salary, she feared how America's brand of 'capitalism fascination' was drawing the undesirable attention of anti-Western terrorist groups such as ISIS. Would terrorists consider 'pedestrian-frill' films such as Celebrity and 'commerce-frill' video-games such as SimCity symbolic of modernism sloth? Maybe 9/11 was a statement of disgust towards supermarket celebrity tabloids...
After Veronica contemplated all this, she decided her modest achievement was sufficient to pay the bills and make her feel spiritually content. She decided to retire to the Virgin Islands and read Sydney Sheldon crime-drama/romance novels. Veronica met a nice handsome sailor at the islands named Kurt who shared her interest in 'Americana culture.' The two married and enjoyed watching films such as Toys (Robin Williams), Coming to America (Eddie Murphy), and America's Sweethearts (Julia Roberts) on Netflix.
THE END
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