Society's Obsession With Celebrity
By
Relationship Advice Expert April Masini
Q: Dear April Masini,
My daughter bought me another new biography on Princess Diana for Mother's Day. I, of course, loved Princess Di and saw her as a beautiful and upright role model and icon, but I have to ask myself when enough is enough on invading Di's life. Don't you feel we know all that we need to know on the People's Princess?
Sincerely,
Di in Peace
A:
Dear Di in Peace,
Princess Di was recently evoked when her son, Prince William broke up with his longtime girlfriend. The girlfriend was well liked, as was Princess Di, and was very attractive, as was Princess Di and came from a modest home, somewhat like Princess Di. She is a working girl at a fashion company, not unlike Princess Di's nanny job preceding her life of royalty. So with the cover of People Magazine hawking the royal break up, and Prince William looking like his late mother, we are all reminded, again, of Princess Di.
Princess Di's popularity was global in a way that no other leader or figure who made her popularity by simply marrying, has ever had since Jackie Kennedy. They were both very stylish women married to men who cheated on them with overbearing families. And that is what the world is wanting to hear about. Women -- glamorous women -- oppressed.
Of course, the fact that Tina Brown is releasing a book that will tell all, again, probably has a little something to do with it. That and the fact that she and her publishing company probably have a publicity machine that will make us all aware of how much we want to read this book -- whether we realized it before, or not.
Tina Brown allegedly had a girlfriend relationship with Princess Di and they lunched together and shared secrets. Now that one of them is dead, the other is the keeper of the information, and has decided to sell her secrets. Of course, if there were no audience, there would be nothing to sell, so let's not blame Ms. Brown entirely for wanting to memorialize her friendship with the late Princess. Ms. Brown probably has lots of other secrets she's gleaned over lunches that would make no money if they were published in book form because no one is interested.
April Masini -- nicknamed "the new millennium's Dear Abby" by the media, is author of the best-selling books Date Out Of Your League and Think & Date Like A Man, the two (just released) step-by-step dating and relationship manuals, Ideas for a Fun Date and Romantic Date Ideas,
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