Celebrity Victimized by Own Celebrity, or: Save Your Money Russell Brand
by james bezerra
What do you think
Pauly Shore is up to?
How much money did he bank?
Is he skimming the Caribbean on a Sea-Doo?
Where does he rank
among the world’s richest celebrities?
Is he retired?
Or did he disappear?
Did we all just get tired
of films in which he would appear?
Did he get hopelessly mired
in his own constructed identity?
Stuck in his own celebrity,
did he got pigeonholed
and endlessly and hopelessly
confined by his own mold?
We – the viewing public – are finicky
about letting celebrities evolve.
Look at what happened to
Paul Rubens, or the dudes from CHiPs.
But what else would we let Pee Wee Herman do?
We demanded his creepy persona and quick quips;
we wouldn’t accept anything new
not even appearing in ‘Blow’ could save him.
True, talented Neil Patrick Harris found a way
to overcome this problem,
by re-earning cred with years on Broadway,
but at what cost? He’ll never get away from
the hilarious Barney. There’s just no way
he’ll ever get re-un-stuck.
So I ask, what of Pauly Shore?
Is he plotting a return?
Hoping that we can possibly want more?
Is he willing to burn
his own effigy in order to score
some new relevancy?
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