"It's okay--let it out!"
Maybe so, but you can bet your pumps that I am going to be looking for them when I'm in Hollywoodland in two weeks!
Trust me, if Lindsay is caught stealing another mink, I'll be the guy who got the picture! 
But of course you are right, Norma Desmond said it all, "There are no stars anymore!"
Did you know that William Holden, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were all raging alcoholics? The "stars" back then were no more "glamorous" than the stars of today and I personally like knowing that. Reality is a wonderful place.
The reality of drunken movie stars overshadows the reality of war, poverty, high prices, the global destruction and the other social ills that need exposing. Please, keep the celebrities back and let their reality go back into the closet. Whenever Britney Spears becomes news on ABC and CNN that bumps the truth about soldiers being killed, I am all for that reality being locked away.
I remember hearing a man interviewed who had been a member of JFK's press corps. He indicated that when he first asked who the young ladies were going into the President's suite in the middle of the night when they were on the road, the reply he got was "Oh, they're just extra secretarial help the President requested." He said it sounded fishy to him even then, but he never questioned it. Don't get me wrong here, JFK remains one of my favorite US presidents, but my point in bringing up that story is that we "late boomers " and "early Xers" were born into a time when the major institutions of society seemed happy to have us live with our illusions.
I daresay most of us believed that "the stars" inhabited a world so much more exciting than our own, and that we should listen to the doctor and obey him without question because anything he or she prescribed was for our own good. Hell, many of even believed that Sister Mary Anthony never sweated under that heavy veil even on a blistering day in June near the end of the school year.
Chalk it up to the post-Watergate, Post-Vietnam even post-Vatican II era in which we live or any other factor you choose to blame, but its just a simple fact that we live in a much more jaded age today. But on the positive side, maybe people will take that healthy skepticism and turn it into constructive action. If that happens, maybe we'll finally hold the scoundrels who so misrule us accountable for their actions on the first Tuesday in November!
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