| If you watch the former cheerleader and horsey | | | | away. The Salahi's do feel like also rans next to the |
| vineyard owner you start to feel what crept up | | | | balloon man. But reality television and a populist |
| when Richard Heene played his theme song for his | | | | President have given people the idea that the easy |
| science reality show and you realized that people will | | | | road to fame is not through talent or struggle, but a |
| go to extreme lengths to become famous. The | | | | quick balloon ride by a lost son or an easy slip |
| couple on Good Morning America talked in subdued | | | | through the White House gate is the easy ticket to |
| tones of the egregiously injured--"our life has been | | | | that Norma Desmond moment. We can almost see |
| torn away from us." They are somber and seem like | | | | the former cheerleader mugging for the camera right |
| toppled gentility until Matt Louer brings up another | | | | after she splattered their photos on Facebook...Max, |
| interview. "Oh yes, we are coming to New York.," | | | | Max...this is my moment. |
| the quietly outraged Virginian nodded. And then his | | | | But what the Salahi's and Richard Heene ignore is that |
| reality show wife nodded in agreement. "Oh yes, we | | | | the white hot glare easily gained is just as easily lost. |
| are coming to New York." And that's when the | | | | Now is the moment for the Salahis. Now is where |
| feeling hits you...almost famous. They will do anything. | | | | they will cash in with the round of interviews and |
| Same title of the movie we watched years ago we | | | | possible book deal. But that will be short lived. Richard |
| are a nation preoccupied with the almost famous. | | | | Heene burned out in a month and is now fighting |
| The woman who had a zillion babies, Carrie Prejean, | | | | through the legal system. And the Salahi's will have |
| the mistresses of those famous (ie Tiger Woods) | | | | their day but probably a thirty day trajectory will |
| who suddenly flash into national consciousness only | | | | leave them as fodder for the Internet and even the |
| to vanish again as the media machine moves on. Now | | | | bloggers will move on. What the Salahi's will find after |
| we have the gate crashers who claim they will be | | | | that glow of being in the Obama inner circle is the |
| exonerated when everything comes out, but we | | | | singular truth that everyone from Norma Desmond to |
| know already from their protestations it is all a sham. | | | | the lead singer of Flock of Seagulls to Dog the |
| Right from the makeup done by reality show hired | | | | Bounty Hunter are forced to confront... fame, alas, is |
| people to the aspiring roles in Wives of Washington | | | | fleeting. |
| to other parties crashed where they were escorted | | | | |