I have to admit, I haven’t really watched one of those shows (The Insider, Access Hollywood, Inside Edition, EXTRA!, ET, E! the Daily Ten, TMZ) in years. Even after listing them all you have to wonder why they haven’t yet cannibalized each other so that only one is left standing.
Don’t get me wrong, I get your curiosity over every single celebrity’s coming and going, inspecting the daily minutiae of others might give your life meaning, the schadenfraude of it all is understandable. What I don’t understand is how anyone can stomach sitting through 21 minutes of teasers of “Is Angelina anorexic?” baiting you before and after each commercial break, sandwiching some really boring fluff of some B-list celebrity’s PR charity event. Nine times out of ten the answer is “No, but here are a few shots of here on location for her next film due out in September of 2009. Enjoy.”
Or better yet, “What made Tom Cruise say, “I love to eat babies!” They’ve teased eight ways to Sunday, only for you to realize, they’ve shortened his very benign statement, “I love to eat babies food when helping my wife feed our very normal, very healthy, very real daughter.”
Stop by Perez if you need some gossip. At least he doesn’t try to mislead you, or hype up some imagined story or blue-ball you into finding out who was drunk last night at Les Deux (‘Find out tomorrow, when I feel like posting it’). You want it, you got it – on the web.
