by Magnolia Miller

Created on: May 07, 2009

I'm a self professed trash TV and online gossip site junky. I read a lot about those crazy celebrities and their wacky lives. I've also been known to watch the occasional E! True Hollywood Story.

It's a nasty and unseemly habit, all of this celebrity ogling, I'll confess, and I probably shouldn't spend so much of my time indulging in it, but I do. Maybe I feel the need to prove to myself that no matter how much I may secretly envy their wealth and lifestyle, they really are just a screwed up bunch of folks.

And it must be working, because I'm convinced now, that no matter how much they may try to prove to themselves and us otherwise, they really are ordinary, average people - just like you and me. They have the same foibles, the same challenges, the same fears and the same insecurities. They just have a lot more money for Midtown Manhattan therapy and fancier crutches.

Occasionally, in my daily cruising of the sites and/or channel surfing, one celebrity in particular will capture my attention. It's usually because they're beginning to run off the rails and well, I'm tempted to watch. It's a tad bit Romanesque, I know, with all the public bloodletting and all, but, I can't help it.

It's like an out of control kite in one of those wild, free fall death spirals - you just haveto look. You've seen it: the kite whipping and twisting frantically in the sky, rolling and thrashing, dipping and diving, searching for that next gust of wind that will lift it up and help it find its flight once again.

Sometimes it does and the kite almost seems to bow in appreciation as it dances lightly on the breeze, climbing higher, higher and higher. But then, the wind, as if it is playing some kind of a wicked game, releases its aerial embrace, abandoning the kite, causing it to shudder and to stall, suspended against the backdrop of the sky. You instinctively hold your breath at the peril about to befall the kite and wonder if the wind will once again show mercy. But it doesn't and the kite turns and takes its final, tragic, Kamikaze dive - straight into the ground.

Hollywood fame seems to be just as cruel. Whispering seductive and sexy promises of wealth, power and adulation into the ears of the innocent and the nave; luring them into the deep, dark, unholy places of the heart, only to mock them, deride them and laugh them to scorn when someone else who is younger, fresher and more relevant comes along.

Take Lindsay Lohan for example: young, attractive

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