«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

As unsavory and omnipresent as the uncelebrity circus might be, is it really any mystery why the incoherent, self-involved ramblings of a freak show like Octo-Mom would capture our interest far more than an up-close and personal interview with Mariska Hargitay in her four-bedroom Hollywood Hills bungalow? After a decade of dutifully lapping up the latest truly bland, unself-aware statements, Vegas-trashy "glamour," and uninspired home decorating styles of actors and actresses with all of the soul of a bag of frozen peas, we've replaced our diet of surgically enhanced automatons with real human beings -- albeit, those with a penchant for public humiliation.

-Salon
June 4 2009