The Gossip Machine, Churning Out Cash
I just found
a great article from the New York Post that shows how "Celebrity Gossip" has developed into a new form of business for celebrities and gossip sites such as TMZ or Radar. Every little bit of the celebrities private lifes is exploited by the media and millions of people can't get enough of the juicy details of Schwarzenegger's affair, Charlie Sheen's latest outburst or the juicy details of Robert Pattinson's relationship with Kristen Stewart. The public life is forced onto them as soon as they've entered the entertainment business, and either they try to resist by avoiding known celebrity hot spots and leading a quiet life behind closed doors, or they try to use the cameras following their every move to boost their fame.
This is often a dirty game as the gossip sites have proved their unscrupulous work ethic in the past, e.g. when they've obtained pictures of Rihanna after she was beaten up by her then-boyfriend Chris Brown, or when they've bought the medical records of Britney Spears after her hospitalization in Cedar's-Sinai Medical Center in 2008, not forgetting the death of Lady Diana in a car accident after she was chased by a horde of paparazzi.
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Feel Your Heart Beat: Eurovision Song Contest 2011 In Germany
This year's Eurosvision Song Contest will be hosted by Germany, because our Lena has won last year's contest in Oslo with her song "Satellite". In a bout of either idiocy or ingenuity she has decided to defend her title this year by participating again with the song "Taken by a stranger" wich was chosen via televoting by the German audience.
I've decided to do some
live tweeting during the Final, so if you wanna know what I think about the different performances, follow
@adiek84 on Twitter or add
Adie Klarpol to your Facebook friends, because my Tweets will be posted to my FB wall, too.
Who should win the Eurovision Song Contest 2011? How do you like this year's Song Contest in germany?
Share your opinion by commenting here!
EDIT: You can vote for your favourite participant here: http://poll.fm/303uj
Here is some more information about the ESC:
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‘Walking Dead’ Billboard On Funeral Parlor Angers Residents
Someone made a grave error.
A billboard for the AMC zombie show
'The Walking Dead', placed on the side of a funeral parlor has angered residents in Durham, England.
Britain's Daily Mail quoted Susan Jones, from the Willow Burn Hospice, in nearby Lanchester as saying: "There must be somewhere else they could put it that would have shown a degree of insight and sensitivity."
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New Board: Untamed Things
If you're a fan of anything undead and supernatural, you should join Untamed Things. It's a cool ...
