Monday, August 20, 2007
Fame and Peons
Here's a CNN story I read today about an accident in Germany. It had to do with the film crew in Tom Cruise's film about the Hitler assassination attempt in World War 2. I guess while a truck was rounding a corner, a side broke and eleven people went tumbling onto the road. My understanding was that several had to go to hospital with severe, though not life threatening injuries. What gets me is the way the accident was reported, "'We have no findings to suggest anyone famous was involved in the accident,' said a police spokesman, ... Eleven people were injured when they fell off the back of a truck during the shooting of Tom Cruise's latest film in Berlin..."
It's as if, if you're not famous, you don't count. Eleven peons get injured, and it's like, so what, nobody famous was involved. Just think what kind of news report there would have been if Tom got his pinky hurt. There would have been reporters from all over the county camped outside the hospital. CNN would have around the clock the coverage and Inside Edition would be crapping their pants with excitement. As it is, who cares - nobody famous - go on with life. Stupid celebrities.
