Twitter Breaks Down the Wall Between Star and Fans - What a nightmare?

Response to original article in the fabulous 'The Wrap' - Twitter Breaks Down the Wall Between Star and Fans!

I wish I could remember which movie it was where the insects all buzz towards the UV light saying 'it's so beautiful'....(***Just Amended - Thanks Shane via Techcrunch - Bug's Life! - SEE CLIP! = Celebrities heading out to Twitter and Facebook - in my opinion!)

That's my own personal take on these once hugely bankable Hollywood brands whose rather asinine online antics are, with every tweet or poorly presented profile, increasingly making them look like just another girl or guy next door.

I predict a story arising in the not too distant future where a studio dumps on an 'A' list act, citing the fact that their unadulterated social networking antics have blown their credibility and they no longer carry sufficient gravitas for a multi-million dollar movie.....failing that who will be surprised really when a movie bombs, because the leading lady who is going to save the world from nuclear disaster is everyone's best mate on Twitter and just doesn't cut it as a red carpet icon anymore..

Beware also the Good Will Hunting backlash when those new friends turn on you and say "with all those gifts, it's an insult to us to be hanging in the neighbourhood. You're either guilty of trying to manipulate/ sell to us or at best destroying all those memories of great sporting moments or iconic movie/ music moments we hold in such high esteem, by taking that privilege for granted by trying to look ordinary". Success reinforces hope and none more so than a leading movie star etc. Do we really want to see you and your movie star husband rubbing our noses in your apparent contempt for the pedestal we gladly, as paying audiences, invested in providing over so many years?

Maybe I am Legend....and alone on this.....maybe not... but this whole thing could be a virus which was meant as a cure for our communication....and unchecked could wipe out all the things we value most. Paul Newman will always be Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy or Henry Gondorff to me and thankfully at least still a Hollywood great. I wonder how many of my young son's future Hollywood great's will not have, themselves ruined the value of that regard, by succumbing to the light and still be around for him to put on a pedestal?....not too many at this rate...how sad!

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