«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

Readers of celebrity gossip magazines primarily women seem to cycle through excitable idealisation of celebrity lives, which leads to self-loathing, which leads to resentment, which leads to an ugly thirst for stories about celebrity suffering.(Marina) Hyde suspects this is partly because actresses lie about what fantastic, happy mothers they are. "You always hear people like Catherine Zeta Jones saying `I get up in the night when the baby cries and I make all the food myself and I love ironing their clothes'. It's just not true. It's physically impossible to do all that and make two major motion pictures every year. Most people find it hard enough to hold down any sort of normal job."And they always make out that they look glamorous all the time and I think it's actually really unsisterly. I'd be tempted to say `God, it's a bloody nightmare! No, the nanny does everything', but they need to be someone who brings in $10 million a movie, someone who's an earth mother, someone who adores the simple things in live these extraordinary confections.

-Sunday Star Times
May 31 2009