Celebrities really DO look like the rest of us!

FOXNews.com - More Stars Without Makeup - Slide 86 of 86

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ok, so we look at these women (and one man) and we think "wow, they are beautiful" and we wish we looked as good as they do. Well here's a picture slide show to prove that celebrities really do look like the rest of us. The question then becomes, does it really matter if they look like that when we know know that they really don't? It also brings to mind the transition of radio stars to the cinema screen...you could probably take it one step to the side with silent movie stars transitioning into "talkies" and how some of the stars didn't do so well because they didn't have that great of a speaking voice. We could also think about how some of these people have become relevant for merely for being pretty. Back when our media consumption was made up of primarily printed sources these types of people, and the content they create, would either have a very small following or no following at all.

The Tale of Two Blogs

On Wednesday of this week Dawn Brancheau, a whale trainer with Sea World, was working with Tillikum, a killer whale. Tillikum grabbed either her braid or her arm (reports vary) and dragged her under water while trashing with her. She died due to the attack. I decided to look at how the Sea World blog and the blog Anything Hollywood looked at this indecent. The Sea World blog had a very short entry about Dawn with a few short comments from her family and a link to the Orlando Sentinel's report of her death. Anything Hollywood's coverage of this consisted of a very brief mention of Dawn and focused on the history of Tillikum and his "violent past". I find that both blog posts leaves something to be desired, I would have liked a description of what happened on the Sea World blog and I would have liked to have seen less sensationalize on the Anything Hollywood blog.