Celebrity Worship..!!

Was just watching an edition of the Oprah Show on Star World. Wow...!! What a woman....She's been that beacon of hope to so many women ALL OVER THE WORLD who's not had it so easy. She also been the source of inspiration, a torch-bearer to so many issues. Well, the plight of America's soldiers...families coping with so many problems. Modern day dilemmas....Well each of these that has gained so much attention and close-view scrutiny...all Kudos to her work...!!

But one particular thing that caught my attention was this 'edition' (prefer to call it that..!!) Well this was on an extension into her family. Her 'new family' as she put it. She'd decided to buy/adopt a new pet (a dog) into her family, and the edition was on how she'd taken the decision and how at the end of it all..she decided to adopt three instead of two or one dog. The reason she gave for adopting the third one being that the keeper mentioned - she wouldn't want to adopt 'him' 'coz he has a weak (slightly misplaced) bite.

And there were all the music...the continous rants of the theatrical audience, loud applause..cries, everything that there is usually...of her shows. And ofcourse her bravery in still having decided to go ahead and adopt the third pet. Well, it doesn't end here. Then there's a video of her continuous getting up through the night to allow the dogs to poop outside her home. "She now knows how difficult it will be to be a new mother" ('Seriously, not undermining what a real mother does for her kids") WOW..!! Realisty Television is sure here to stay...!!

Celebrity worship on one-side. But crying excitedly at the stupid rants of celebrities...is just another thing. Well, no place is better. People standing in queues to meet a so-called celebrity. The Page-3 culture that's fed by this mass hysteria. of being seen at all the right places. Doing all the right things and sporting all the right labels.

And why am I picking on Oprah? Well, simply because she's one of those lovely ladies who'd once mesmerised me with her book reviews, the 'hard' stories she's narrated, Stories that have been such an inspiration to so many around the world.

Of having won-over middle-class as well as upper-middle class conventions of 'blacks' (excuse me for using this word) not being able to reach those echelons of public mind-sets. Who herself spoke against these also who made celelbrities out of lesser known people at the end of it all, on attaining the so-called 'celebrity' status, mimicking those very conventions she scorned upon.

Well, may be...that's what being a celebrity by 'convenience' is all about...!!