Category: Cinema 31
I'm not even clicking on the www.msn.com story about Marilyn Monroe's diaries being released. The poor lady has been dead since '62. A diary is a private thing. Can't she be left to rest in peace? Maybe in the next life she can get what she didn't get here?
All the revelations about Princess Diana, too, poor thing, personally I think she married even knowing there were problems, but had two kids with this man, got divorced, & tried to do the best with the resources she had available. She seemed to try to visit with the sick & when she visited outside the U K didn't expect the locals to adapt to her but instead made some effort to adapt to them, for example, donning a loose fitting head covering in Pakistan. She had both her good points & weak points, like the average human being. She died accidentally. Can't she be let to rest in peace either? I consider stuff like diaries to be none of my business.
Grave robbing has been a part of human existence for God knows how long. But you're right, it's repulsive.
Agreed. Some things are meant to be private, whether the person who wrote them has died or is still living.
Whether or not these diaries get released, the media feeding frenzies that ensue around the deaths of celebrities are no less invasive.
Don't they get money for these diaries?
Even though they do get money, I agree also.
Celebrities are people, just like us. Okay, so they're famous for something. No matter what that reason is, they deserve a private life, alive or dead. You may think you know a lot about them, and want to get closer to them from their interviews, but I know from experience that the media can really screw things up.
A number of years ago, once Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had died, a confession she'd made to a priest was revealed. ?!?! Isn't this supposed to be guaranteed confidentiality, I forget the formal term for it. Hopefully the priest has been defrocked. When does the voyeurism end?!
i think it is ghoulish and prurient. exactly what could marilyn monroe say that would be of interest on anyone?
The thing is that without a market, there would be no demand for this information.
But for some reason best known to those that pay for this stuff, people want to read it. And while people pay more money for the papers with it in, the papers will keep publishing it.
shrug, I mean when I kick the bucket. I'll be resting in peace somewhere, I doubt I'll have any sort of clue on what is said or not said about me. so just sayin the dead really don't care one way or another.
there dead!
Though I find it distasteful, anyone calling them a hard core conservative by definition must support it on the grounds of simple economics. And of course, on that same principle, not purchase it thereby lowering the demand. When the Right protests things like this, it just makes them look silly, as silly as the softfoots on the left doing it, only with one additional caveat: Free market is free market.
None of this has to do with morals and with what's right. There are plenty of things that can be done to make money but some just aren't done because they're wrong. This should be one of them. Unless a person leaves their papers for the public, or it's something like a literary work that wasn't finished and that's not personal, no one should have the right to go poking into people's private business.
I think that what's worth remembering though is that most of these people actively seek the publicity while they're alive, and so it's almost an accepted norm that they would want that to continue even when they're dead.
It's easy enough to say for instance that Diana was hounded to death by the press, etc, but in reality she manipulated the media for her own gain on numerous occasions.
it's not just the media that are responsible for these things being published - the people that pay money to read it ultimately bear responsibility as well, because without the readers, there would be no demand.
When Jade Goody was dying of cancer OK magazine published their tribute eddition before she was even dead. She actively saught the limelight when she was alive, and I would bet money that that was carefully orkestrated in order that she could see it before she died. Shocking really, and millions of people paid money for it.
In the end it's not the limelight-seeking person we need to consider because as shawn said, they're dead, they don't care. But perhaps they need to consider the families they will leave behind who will have to read the tribute edditions/the long-lost diaries/the gossip about how Diana was pregnant/that it was all a conspiracy by MI5 to kill her off because she was going to marry an arab.
Well, when the celebrity is asking for it, that may be a different story, but how can we be sure we can tell the difference from those who are munipulating the media from those who are honestly trying to keep their private lives private.