Celebrities spend their time on a pedestal for all to see, a spotlight shining on them so that all the public can study their every move beneath a microscope and criticize them. It's unfair for any human being to have to live with that level of attention on their shoulders, but that's the price paid in return for the fame and the fortune it pays them.With that attention can come a lot of jokes made at their expense. For the most part, I don't think that's a problem. If you can't take a joke or two, how did you even manage the process of working your way up the ladder to the position you're on?It's a tough world, and you have to have a tough skin.
However, we should all know that there are limits to when jokes should be made and who they should target.A lot of jokes have been made about Britney Spears, and that's to be expected when someone attacks SUVs with umbrellas, shaves their head and loses a custody battle to Kevin Federline.However, with the news Thursday that Spears had been admitted into the hospital for a "mental evaluation hold," I would hope the jokes cease for a while. Quite clearly, we're seeing this woman's life fall completely apart, and apparently she needs a lot of help. Ihope she gets it.Along similar lines, I especially don't find it fair to make jokes about the death of actor Heath Ledger last week. It's a tragedy when any 28-year-old from any walk of life dies for any reason, whether it be from drugs, suicide, accident, disease, etc.
The family and friends of anyone who dies at such an young age do not deserve the pain that comes with the public leering over their shoulders and making snide comments.Fortunately, most people are raised well enough to know not to mock the dead. It's rude, juvenile and absolutely out of line. You're not proving anything by kicking someone who has no means of defending themselves.Fox News talk-show host John Gibson must not have got the memo, as he began his first radio show after the news of Ledger's death hit by playing funeral music, along with a clip of the famous line, "I wish I knew how to quit you," taken from Ledger's film "Brokeback Mountain.".Gibson came on the air, saying, "Well, he found out how to quit you." He would then continue on this line of "humor"by playing more clips from "Brokeback Mountain" in a mocking fashion and calling Ledger a "weirdo."
After this show, Gibson tried to defend his actions, but eventually relented and apologized sort of saying he was sorry that people were offended by his comments and took them to be anti-gay and insensitive, and sorry that Ledger is no longer alive.Being sorry for how someone reacts to what you did is not the same thing as being sorry for your own actions. It would have been nice to see someone like Gibson, with a platform to share his opinion as he does, actually recognize that taunting someone who is no longer capable of defending themselves is not funny. It's childish and cowardly.Ledger's family, friends and fans deserve more than a halfhearted apology.
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My prayers are on Heaths' family. I know how it is to lose someone. And to Britney, let's hope she gets better!
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