In a recent story, the actor Matt Dillon claims that he doesn’t want to be famous. He just wants to be known as an actor.
Which makes you think about fame and the monster it can be.
Lindsay Lohan is famous. Every week a new tabloid story airing her dirty laundry comes about.
Meryl Streep is a great actor/actress. You don’t see her in the tabloids.
Brangelina, Bennifer (yes, the now defunct…) and the likes are famous. Tom and Katie, they are also famous.
But Tom Hanks is a great actor. Haven’t seen his dirty laundry either.
And we rarely see the dirty laundry of Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman, Renee Zellweger (well except for that ill-fated marriage to another non-famous, famous guy, Kenny Chesney).
Nor do we see the tabloids with stories about Richard Dreyfuss or Kurt Russell or Richard Gere. Bradley Cooper is a hit and miss. Charlie Sheen, and I love Charlie but he can’t seem to stay out of the dirty laundry business.
But we still occasionally see Clooney.
And Brad and Angelina make the headlines every week….(and even so, I’ve enjoyed their work, can’t say their not good actors).
So what makes someone famous and what makes a great actor?
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