Sex, Lies & Videotape
Friday, February 08, 2008
Sex, Lies & Videotape
At this age and time, it is almost impossible to find a celebrity that is synonymous with intelligence. The entertainment business is merely a place for entertainment, and you don't need to have an IQ of 150 to be popular, you just need to have the looks and/or the talents. There were exceptional cases of brilliance of course, with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone both having IQs higher than 140, the last time I read. Even in our generation, we have our own share of Ivy League actors and actresses, making it in the entertainment business as well. There's Claire Danes and Natalie Portman, who studied in Yale and Harvard respectively. For the male entertainers, Edward Norton and Conan O'Brien were graduates from Yale and Harvard respectively, and even Matt Damon studied for a period of time at Harvard as well. Though it is true that IQ has nothing to do with your acting abilities, at least these cases are enough to prove that the entertainment business is not choked with empty vessels.
Stupidity is not a fashion trend in the entertainment business, though it does seem to be a rather popular accessory to be carried around by those actors and singers, and those socialites who are reach because they made a sex tape or two in the past. You don't necessarily need the talents or the looks to be famous these days, you just have to be really, really weird. Step out of your car with the paparazzi all around without wearing an underwear, come out from the club's bathrooms with the string of tissue paper sticking out from underneath your skirt, or just thrash a car with an umbrella, stuff like that. Guaranteed fame and fortune, that's the way to do it. However, there are some genuine tragedies in the business that isn't the result of stupidity at all. I feel, the recent tragic death of Heath Ledger, wasn't a product of stupidity, but really an accident contrary to what a lot of people are saying. A mixture of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine killed that man, and certainly not because he forgot the effects of combining all those medications. There are the genuinely retarded celebrities, and then there are the ones who do things which are genuinely sad.
Which brings me to the point of this blog entry in the very first place. In the Asian cyberspace online, the top search result on Google is probably the phrase: Edison Chen Sex Scandal. Apparently, this Hong Kong actor slash singer took some saucy pictures of his celebrity ex-girlfriends and saved them in a hard disk, which he took to a local shop for maintenance when the content was stolen without his permission. So somebody out there took the pictures and the videos, loaded them up onto the Internet, and the tabloid is all over those pictures with celebrities spreading their legs wide opened for the camera, celebrities with supposedly clean records in Hong Kong, suddenly being shown posing provocatively and in other compromised positions. Everybody is going crazy over these pictures, and only the tip of the iceberg has been released to the public as of now, more to come after the New Year - as a sort of new year gift to the general public. The situation is probably made worse by the fact that it is not illegal to share pornography between friends in China, which means that those pictures are going to be circulated on the Internet for a very long time. Boohoo, Edison.
Nobody cares if Angelina Jolie recently spent the past six months in Middle East, in countries like Syria and Iraq to understand the situation of the displaced population. Nobody cares if George Clooney recently visited Sudan, primarily Darfur, and not to mention his ongoing efforts to increase the awareness of the situation in Darfur to the rest of the world. The general public would like it better if they were caught swimming in the nude, in the Mediterranean Sea, or seen in a forgotten sex tape that was stolen from their houses. Nobody likes these humanitarian efforts, everybody prefers the kind of news that involve scandals, especially the sexually related ones. This time around, Edison Chen has not only gotten his ex-girlfriends into trouble, but his own career is also in jeopardy. All the scenes filmed with him in his recent film with Stephen Chow has been ordered to be edited out, and that is not to mention all the products that he endorsed in the past, wanting to drop his name from their labels. This is not an accident we are talking about here, like the Heath Ledger death. This is a classic example, of just being completely stupid and ignorant.
I don't suppose there is anything wrong in taking pictures of you and your partner having sex. Some might argue that the girls never gave him the green light to take those pictures, but it is hard to deny that they were probably willing participants especially when most of the pictures involved them looking directly into the camera, and some of them smiling at the same time. I don't think there are laws set to prohibit such acts, and the real 'bad guys' in this scandal are really the people that stole these pictures and tried to earn some quick cash off of them. Still, if Edison Chen actually used a little bit of his brainpower, he would have realized that with his celebrity status, he should really have kept those pictures hidden in an external hard drive or something, or print them out and paste it all over your bedroom walls. It's just not very bright to be taking your hard disk to a complete stranger, especially when you know that you have hidden pictures in there you don't want people to find. Or, perhaps the reason why he wanted to fix that hard disk was because of those pictures inside. In that case, maybe he should have backed up those pictures, should have gotten a Mac. Time Machine is a magical application, so too bad for him.
It might have helped if he actually thought twice about what he was doing, but obviously his brain was working at an all-time low at the point. He probably didn't see the possibility of his sexual escapades leaking out into the public, thinking himself as being too smart for such a thing to happen to himself. He is the prime example of how stupidity can be amplified in the entertainment industry, how a little thought process could have prevented those accursed paparazzi from earning a few more dollars off the pictures of your hairy penis. This is a twenty-eight year old guy we are talking about, old enough in every possible civilization to be called an adult, and he can't even think for himself at all. We have a rather successful career right now, landing a role in The Grudge 2. He has broken Hollywood, and the least he could have done was to destroy those photographic evidences of his penis and the breasts of his ex-girlfriends, right? Oh yeah, a little too young and still too stupid to think about such things, falling prey to his own stupidity and never thinking too far regarding his actions.
I have read his personal blog over at honeyee.com before, a blog which he has removed ever since the incident emerged. He never came across as being particularly clever from his words, and almost always sounded like a delinquent who is ten years too old. He just sounds like an average teenager, always filled with angst and anger, wanting to prove to the world that he is something, when he really isn't anything more than a speck of dust in the vast entertainment business. Still, I gave him the benefit of a doubt, knowing that I am in no position to judge his character nor his intelligence from blog entries that he posts on the internet. But this incident seems to have proven me right all along, that he really isn't very bright in the head to begin with. Just a guy with a pretty face, a lot of sex drive, and a passion to document his acts in bed.
We all hate the paparazzi, I am sure he knows what I am talking about. But he could have chosen not to feed and nurture them. Because they are not going to come back and thank you for all the years of scandals you have provided them with, they are not like those sons and daughters you read in storybooks and fairy tales. They are always going be hungry for more and more of you, exploiting you whenever they can and making sure that you are sucked dry to the bone before moving on to the next celebrity, more stupid or retarded than you already are. The situation now is almost laughable on my part, and I almost choked on my dinner this evening, watching the news on television. Your face is being plastered across every possible newspaper and magazines out there, but all I see is a teenage boy with stupidity written all over his face. You deserve what happened to you, and what is still happening to you. You have disappointed a lot of fans not just because of the size of your penis, but also the magnitude of your utter stupidity.
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