So today, Mr. A-Plus-K gets his camera out and starts complaining about his neighbor's house being worked on at 7:30am. If you know Ashton and his sense of humor, he's mostly joking, but there's something real or serious in most of his responses. Obviously, the paparazzi doesn't get the humor in it all. Even The Huff Post seems to be running with the den of press wolves here.
Plain and simple, if the guy is upset about something, let him be upset. If he's half joking, let him joke. Even if it's a mix of serious and PUNKing around, it's just a homeowner that's letting off some steam.
Sure, in the real world, construction workers start early... way early. Which is one reason why I'm not in construction. And we can't all have the luxury of dictating the time schedule of construction workers. So the part that Ashton is half serious about, he needs to get this. I'm sure he does. I'm just saying.
And while this particular homeowner is an actor who married a famous actress, and any of their actions or moves brings out every photographer out of the wood work, trying to capture every lucrative image they can get to keep them employed in their stalkarazzi position as long as they can, there still should be some sort of time and space respect.
Still, the questions begs: Why the media circus? Why camp outside this guys home?
You want photos of him? Hang out at the awards shows.
You want to see him in his jeans and t-shirt? Camp out at the airport and nicely take a photo without trying to ride up his ass crack while he's pulling his luggage.
Every other time - Stay away. Your hunt for the money shot isn't going to help you do anything except put cash into your wallet.
It's about privacy. Not about how much money one gets for taking the photo.
Now if this is Ashton filming new episodes of PUNK'D, that's cool. And maybe part of this is based on press that Ashton will get. That's fine. But you still have to learn when to back the fuck off.
Why am I writing this, you ask? I don't like all of Ashton's movies. I've not seen all of Demi's movies, either. But this is personal. If someday, I'm popular enough to where people will be hounding me for a photo, I'd want to have some time and space request. Take my photo when I'm on the red carpet, but don't clog the road I live on for some dumb shot of me with a t-shirt and hat on.
Enough is enough. As Ashton said today.... "you all know the truth... shhhhhhhhh"
Some of these TMZ types are just absolutely predatory. It seems like they've disabled the default permission settings in their brains - I don't know how any decent human being could be so aggressively impolite, and I don't get the *want* to intrude, the not minding being offensive and untrusted by actors and others who are well known. I would want for any well known person hanging out anywhere near me to feel comfortable and in company they could trust. I'd die of shame if I were someone they wanted to get rid of, out of their sight. Why isn't that also the case with ... well, everyone, come to think of it :P But I mean, how can these guys snooping and taking pictures not end up crying at home at night and wanting to grind themselves into the floor with shame? If Harrison Ford scolded me and told me to get away and stop being around him, I'd kill myself if I didn't drop dead first.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, Catherine. I wonder about how they can be so ruthless, but then again, there are business people that step all over someone for personal gain, which is what I think it boils down to.
ReplyDeleteAnd I would do the same if Harrison Ford (or any celeb for that matter) told me to back off.