What do I know about Courteney Cox?<\/p>\n
She started off as Ian Copeland’s secretary and love interest.\u00c2\u00a0 And then she was featured in a Bruce Springsteen video back when we were innocent and didn’t realize she wasn’t a fresh young thing plucked from obscurity, but an actress.\u00c2\u00a0 Then she was on "Friends" and became rich and famous.<\/p>\n
And I don’t care.\u00c2\u00a0 You see I’ve been around long enough to know that actors are playing a role.\u00c2\u00a0 In other words, they’re not the people you see on screen.\u00c2\u00a0 Furthermore, if you’re not self-centered, if you’re not narcissistic, you can’t make it as an actor.\u00c2\u00a0 So those of us in contact with these people don’t see them as objects of affection, but two dimensional icons to observe and pass by like billboards.<\/p>\n
Did I care that Courteney and David Arquette were breaking up?\u00c2\u00a0 Someone had an affair…who cares?<\/p>\n
Then I turn on Howard Stern and Mr. Arquette is testifying.<\/p>\n
Have you ever been left?\u00c2\u00a0 I know it’s hard to leave, but it’s nothing like being left.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s like you’re playing third base and the pitcher picks up the ball and goes home.\u00c2\u00a0 Like you’re the quarterback, waiting for a hike, but there’s no ball.\u00c2\u00a0 You’re ready to give it your all, you’re still in the game, but there is no game.<\/p>\n
And then you start to reel.\u00c2\u00a0 You love ’em.\u00c2\u00a0 You hate ’em.\u00c2\u00a0 But you’re ready to love ’em again if they love you.\u00c2\u00a0 But they don’t.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the secret of being left.\u00c2\u00a0 The person doing the leaving checked out long ago, you’re the last to know, literally, they’ve discussed it with all their friends, even have a plan in order, by time you find out it’s a fait accompli, and it’s devastating.<\/p>\n
But it’s worse if you’re a public figure.\u00c2\u00a0 Because your humiliation is public.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s intensified.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is why everybody lies.\u00c2\u00a0 Respect our privacy.\u00c2\u00a0 It was mutual.\u00c2\u00a0 BULLSHIT!\u00c2\u00a0 It’s never mutual.\u00c2\u00a0 If someone doesn’t want to leave more, if someone isn’t calling the shots, you weren’t in a relationship.\u00c2\u00a0 But in this phony world we live in, people accept the b.s.<\/p>\n
But David Arquette did not want to hide behind the curtain.\u00c2\u00a0 And he wanted to get ahead of the story, and tell the truth.\u00c2\u00a0 That sure, he slept with that woman, that waitress, that….but he’d been separated from Courteney for four months.\u00c2\u00a0 He didn’t do anything wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 He went on Howard Stern to tell his side of the story.\u00c2\u00a0 Not versus his wife, Courteney Cox, but versus the press, that loves to beat up and judge anybody who walks into the agora and gets attention.<\/p>\n
I know, I know, it’s the price of being famous.<\/p>\n
But old school fame ain’t what it used to be.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s just too damn phony.\u00c2\u00a0 But David Arquette was being brutally honest.\u00c2\u00a0 Laughing, crying, what did Joni Mitchell say, it’s the same release?<\/p>\n
The longer he talked the more you thought he was an idiot.\u00c2\u00a0 Then again, he said he wasn’t verbal and it was 4:20 in the morning.\u00c2\u00a0 But if you ran into him on the street after this performance, you’d slap him on the back, say hi, treat him nice, want to be his bud, because we’ve all been there, it’s part of the human condition, heartbreak.<\/p>\n
We’re living in two worlds now.\u00c2\u00a0 The mainstream world and the real world.\u00c2\u00a0 And the real world plays out online.\u00c2\u00a0 And the mainstream world hates this.\u00c2\u00a0 Hates that it’s being challenged by this upstart.\u00c2\u00a0 But those participating online know the mainstream is pompous and oftentimes doesn’t get it right.\u00c2\u00a0 And the high and mighty mainstreamers are not interested in what the hoi polloi have to say.\u00c2\u00a0 They want their money, but not their opinion.\u00c2\u00a0 But now the average citizen has power.<\/p>\n
I’m not talking about the Tea Party, white people backed by rich men protesting that they’re losing control of the country.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m talking about people who just don’t get how the rich can bitch when they can’t find a job, how congressmen are beholden to corporations, not people.\u00c2\u00a0 How the Supreme Court said corporations are better than people, much richer and able to support political candidates.<\/p>\n
But it’s not only about Washington, D.C.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve got the TV networks and the newspapers and the right wing bloviators on talk radio who excoriated David Arquette to the point where he apologized.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know what for.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s their fodder, he sells their magazines, now they’re going to tell him how to behave?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s his story.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s his truth.\u00c2\u00a0 If you can’t be honest, what have you got?<\/p>\n
America.\u00c2\u00a0 The land of the duplicitous.\u00c2\u00a0 Where people lie and kiss butt and play a game whose rules were written not by the players, but the string-pullers, who jerk the players around.<\/p>\n
But the players are sick and tired of it.<\/p>\n
Yes, we’ve got to give Howard Stern credit.\u00c2\u00a0 He got the story.<\/p>\n
And there’s no story without David Arquette.<\/p>\n
And the facts were interesting, but not as great as the performance.\u00c2\u00a0 David Arquette gave the performance of a lifetime.\u00c2\u00a0 With Howard Stern as director and Robin Quivers assisting.\u00c2\u00a0 You just couldn’t turn it off.\u00c2\u00a0 Every human emotion was evidenced.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a roller coaster you refused to get off.\u00c2\u00a0 I would have poured quarters in the dashboard to keep the story going.\u00c2\u00a0 Because you just can’t get this honesty anywhere else.<\/p>\n
Oh, you can get it from your buddy.\u00c2\u00a0 In the bar.\u00c2\u00a0 On the phone.\u00c2\u00a0 But when it comes to entertainment, it’s all phony all the time.\u00c2\u00a0 Fake reality TV shows.\u00c2\u00a0 Movies made for people who don’t exist.\u00c2\u00a0 And music so vapid, so whored out to labels and radio and TV and the Fortune 500, as to be impossible to relate to by normal human beings.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, some will dance to the track for a while, but then the cuts are discarded, they’re meaningless.\u00c2\u00a0 The mainstream trots out sales figures, trumps up the story, but no one cares.\u00c2\u00a0 Otherwise Katy Perry would sell out stadiums, who’s gotten more publicity than her?\u00c2\u00a0 But it’s dishonest.\u00c2\u00a0 God, you almost think Katy showed cleavage on "Sesame Street" so her performance could be banned and she could get a ton of publicity.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t really believe that, but then again, do I?<\/p>\n
But listening to David Arquette on Howard Stern…\u00c2\u00a0 He didn’t call his publicist, or if he did, he ignored him.\u00c2\u00a0 There was no filter.\u00c2\u00a0 There was straight honesty.<\/p>\n
Music used to specialize in this.\u00c2\u00a0 But music radio can’t compete with talk radio.\u00c2\u00a0 And no one can compete with Howard Stern, the King Of All Media, because he’s put in his 10,000 hours, he’s tapped into the zeitgeist, he’s honest, he not only excavates the truth from his guests, but from himself and his ragtag bunch of cronies.<\/p>\n
Don’t listen.\u00c2\u00a0 Put him down.\u00c2\u00a0 The point is, Howard’s got rabid fans.\u00c2\u00a0 They built Sirius radio.\u00c2\u00a0 You should only have people who care so much about you.<\/p>\n
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