Is Britney Spears like Laura Palmer? :: Twin Peaks Gazette Message Board

I really really do feel sorry for Britney Spears and all members of her family who actually care about her. This comment...

"She has dark fantasies about terrible things happening to her enemies."

...is pretty easy to understand. To be so constantly under the international microscope of millions of people who don't know her, will never know her but are enjoying her fall, is enough to make most of us have paranoid delusions. Add to that the Blue Plate Combo Special of drugs and any other outcome would be a miracle.

It's not that hard to break a human being. With the plethora of small video-recording devices on every individual she encounters in every step she takes, and the knowledge that each image is immediately downloaded around the known world, who wouldn't suffer a loss of perspective?

I don't see what the solution is to this ever-growing problem with every young celebrity. Will fewer little girls want to grow up to be famous as a result? I doubt it. Will legislation prevent paparazzi and their amateur counterparts from intruding on the privacy of stars? Can't do it. Will the websites and publications that make their livings from these moments cease to intrique? I doubt it. It seems to me it's bound to get worse. The day may come when actors and musicians cannot leave the walls of their fortresses except for rare outings.

Michael Jackson's family home is a couple miles from where I live. It is no longer so, but during decades gone by, there were permanently stationed paparazzi outside the gates. I just learned from a neighbor that Kevin Federline lives one street west of us. I don't usually drive south on that street where his house is but if I did, I've no doubt it would be a cinch to discover which one it is. There will be swarms of cameramen outside the gate. In fact, when I go out this afternoon, I'll check it out. Take a photo of the photographers for you to see. When he leaves the house, they follow. There are others parked outside the Malibu rehab center at the other end.

Really, who would want to live like that?

As a result, I never talk to celebrities when I run across them shopping or dining or at the veterinarian's office -- wherever. Once I was tempted with Harvey Keitel. He was sitting outside on the patio while we were seated on the other side of the glass window inside the restaurant. I probably would have said a quick something to him while waiting for our car but as it turned out, he had left before us. That would have been an exception to the rule though. Usually I feel as if catching a fleeting glance of a celebrity I admire is like spotting an elk along side the road in Snoqualmie. Be still. Enjoy the experience. And whatever you do, don't frighten them by getting too close.