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November 22nd 2006 14:33
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I hate to sound callous or curmudgeonly, but something is bugging me about the outpouring of grief over Belinda Emmett's death. I think this is it:
Belinda Emmett was not a superstar. She was a mid-level soapie star who appeared in a couple of TV shows and a movie. She wasn't a spectacularly talented actress. And leaving aside my own personal judgment, she wasn't really a "much-beloved" actress. She wasn't an Australian institution. Nobody can honestly say "she brought so much joy to so many". She was famous for being Rove's girlfriend, and then wife, and for having cancer, more than anything.
The problem I have is that now she's dead, people are writing reams about how she was one of the brightest stars in the Australian entertainment firmament. She just wasn't. She was nowhere the level of, say, Lisa McCune or Georgie Parker, or even, keeping with the cancer theme, Delta Goodrem. She certainly was nowhere near the status of Kylie. Really, she was just a pretty lass who was on TV sometimes, and who we all felt sorry for because she got sick. Most of those raving on about how much they lvoed her, how bright and wonderful she was, how talented, how she lit up the world, are full of it.
Because Rove McManus, Emmett's family, friends, all of them, they really did know her. And they really did love her. And it just turns me off the way the genuine grief of people who've lost someone always seems to be cheapened by the faux grief of the masses who are so eager to jump onto the public death bandwagon.
So...enough with the tears, OK?
Got an opinion? Comment, or objieb@people.net.au">email me!
Belinda Emmett was not a superstar. She was a mid-level soapie star who appeared in a couple of TV shows and a movie. She wasn't a spectacularly talented actress. And leaving aside my own personal judgment, she wasn't really a "much-beloved" actress. She wasn't an Australian institution. Nobody can honestly say "she brought so much joy to so many". She was famous for being Rove's girlfriend, and then wife, and for having cancer, more than anything.
The problem I have is that now she's dead, people are writing reams about how she was one of the brightest stars in the Australian entertainment firmament. She just wasn't. She was nowhere the level of, say, Lisa McCune or Georgie Parker, or even, keeping with the cancer theme, Delta Goodrem. She certainly was nowhere near the status of Kylie. Really, she was just a pretty lass who was on TV sometimes, and who we all felt sorry for because she got sick. Most of those raving on about how much they lvoed her, how bright and wonderful she was, how talented, how she lit up the world, are full of it.
Because Rove McManus, Emmett's family, friends, all of them, they really did know her. And they really did love her. And it just turns me off the way the genuine grief of people who've lost someone always seems to be cheapened by the faux grief of the masses who are so eager to jump onto the public death bandwagon.
So...enough with the tears, OK?
Got an opinion? Comment, or objieb@people.net.au">email me!
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