By later in the week of Super Bowl XL, the glamour and sensation of seeing celebrities began to wear off quickly for the de-sensitized media. Seeing the same stars like Jessica Alba, Fergie, Josh Duhamel, Tommy Lee and Josh Lucas at event after event began to be as boring and annoying as being solicited by Detroit homeless in earlier weeks (before the city 'took care of them', of course) as they were almost begging to be on camera.
The entertainment media has always had an obligation for keeping the stars happy even if that means stroking their ego a little bit. In doing so, the media began having some fun... something of an inside joke. "Don't roll on this" and "we'll never use them" became the latest of a long line of catch-phrases with the bigger entertainment network shows. I am not at liberty to call out those shows, but I can say I was working for Entertainment Tonight and we, of course, would not take part in such a practice as pretending to do interviews with celebrities that we either already interviewed a bunch of times or that they were not big enough stars to care about, so why waste tape?
Countless celebrity standing in place smiling and talking to a camera that was not recording thinking (hoping) they would make the show. At the very least, they would feel important standing there with a microphone and mic flag labled with the tv show's logo in front of them held by a reporter or talent that knew the whole conversation was a sham. In TV only a few names really matter in the entertainment world and sadly, not even Jerry Bruckheimer would make the cut to air on TV.
My condolences go out to the poor celebrities that I witnessed wasting their breath time and time again this past week in Detroit that never made tape, much less air. However, with this said, Jessica Alba can and will make air anytime, thank god!
After getting wind of this, United Secondary Actors Association (U2AA), a celebrity union group, has threatened legal action if mediocre stars don't get equal airtime claiming "without fame from your networks, these individuals will never move out of the shadows of more famous celebrities."
The organizer of this group, actor Tony Danza was not present at the Super Bowl in Detroit but sent his deepest wishes for resolution while he was at work on a "Who's the Boss" TV reunion scheduled to air in May on ABC. Family Tie's youngest daughter Tina Yothers will be filling in as Sam for a more famous Alyssa Milano on the special.
Tony Danza and his legion of U2AA demands America to stop watching TV until every actor is treated equally. U2AA member Adrian Zmed is asking the country to "make a stand" for the sake of all of those poor celebrities who aren't important enough to 'them', but for those that get shafted like that guy who plays the friend on that one show, or people like Jim Belushi.
Well Mr. Danza and Zmed, I stand for you! TV is bad... and so in support, I've unplugged my TV from the antenae and will watch only DVDs from now on. (Sorry I won't be seeing either of you in my DVD selections)