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06-26-2009, 08:32 AM
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Take a walk through a holocaust museum or pass by the Vietnam Memorial or the Arlington cemeteries--that's moving.
Went to all of those but the Holocaust Museum when I was in DC last year for July 4th (what an amazing experience watching the Fireworks, sitting in front of the Washington Monument).
Both are incredibly moving. I could have spent days in Arlington. What an amazing place. If you've never seen it, you have to watch the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. What a display of military professionalism.
Rant time:
I heard a quote by Rev. Al Sharpton on the radio this morning, basically he was calling out all those people that had spent the last years condemning Jackson that are now praising him.
I mourn a celebrity only in the way that I won't ever get to enjoy their work anymore (Ledger) or for the years of entertainment they had given people (McMahon). I don't mourn them like I would a family member or a friend, and to see people that didn't know the person outside of their body of work going nuts is just weird..
Now someone like Angelina Jolie, who spends so much time helping out in the world, that's someone that deserves to be widely and publically mourned. A celebrity that does worthwhile things outside of their entertainment, or uses their celebrity to further worthy causes and doesn't just "talk" but actually walks the walk.
I hate TV and the 'Net and all that, anything that makes a celebrity into...well.. a celebrity. I don't care if Denzel Washington or Jack Nicholson sit courtside at a Lakers game. My life is no different, it has no outcome or affect on the game... WHO CARES!!
Now if Nicholson gave away his seats to underpriveleged kids for every game, then I would care.
If you're famous for acting in a movie or singing a song, do something to be worthy of that fame.
If people are going to be talking about you for decades, then do something worthy to be talked about. If not, then just go quietly into the background and let your body of work be your legacy.
That's my rant for the day
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