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interesting hollywood meta article
Jun. 16th, 2005 08:50 amThis article at Calendarlive.com says a couple of interesting things about celebrities as reality tv, in-between namechecking recent movie releases and asking what the hell is up with Tom Cruise:
In recent years, Hollywood has become obsessed with poking and prodding its fragile psyche, engaging in a furious barrage of meta-navel-gazing. As far back as the 1950s, it was commonplace for comedians to play themselves on TV, be it Burns and Allen or Lucille Ball, who frequently used top-shelf stars as comic foils in her shows. But the modern era of meta-storytelling probably dates to "The Truman Show," the unsettling 1998 portrait of a man whose entire life was, unbeknownst to him, a TV series.
In recent years, Hollywood has become obsessed with poking and prodding its fragile psyche, engaging in a furious barrage of meta-navel-gazing. As far back as the 1950s, it was commonplace for comedians to play themselves on TV, be it Burns and Allen or Lucille Ball, who frequently used top-shelf stars as comic foils in her shows. But the modern era of meta-storytelling probably dates to "The Truman Show," the unsettling 1998 portrait of a man whose entire life was, unbeknownst to him, a TV series.
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