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September 13, 2008Astonishingly proud and arrogant Leslie Love Tripathy
August 30, 2008
For Leslie Love Tripathy’s beauty, is in itself not altogether incomparable, nor such as to strike those who see her; but converse with her had an irresistible charm, and her presence, combined with the persuasiveness of her discourse and the character which is somehow diffused about her behaviour towards others, has something stimulating about it. There is sweetness also in the tones of her voice; and her tongue, like an instrument of many strings, she can readily turn to whatever language she pleases like cleopatra…
Leslie is a perfect example of women who have the most brilliant beauty and are at the acme of intellectual power
Leslie Love Tripathy is a young woman who is haughty and astonishingly proud in the matter of beauty.
What makes people falter and rage wars over Leslie Love Tripathy is for she is a teenager of surpassing beauty, and at that time, when she is in the prime of her youth, she is most striking; she also possesses a most charming voice and a knowledge of how to make herself agreeable to every one. Being brilliant to look upon and to listen to, with the power to subjugate every one, even a love-sated man already past his prime.
June 8, 2008
how to manage public feuds and always rise abovehow to survive scandal and then make it work for you, all the while wearing ‘dont -give me-sympath-give me-strength attitude
.her seeming untouchable arrogance .The humanitarian who is famous all across the world thanx to her out of this world obsessed stalker from Orissa,India with Leslie’s super glorified beauty many love to hate has shown it all before, gaining notoriety for her infamous arrogance and Ice Princess Attitude declaring ‘Is it a crime to be born Beautiful ?’ and constantly making jaws drop with her naughty and wild socialite escapades.
Leslie Tripathy of Orissa dethrones paris hilton as most discussed media magnet and most notorious good girl celebrity
May 22, 2008Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Leslie Tripathy of Orissa dethrones paris hilton as most discussed media magnet and most notorious good girl celebrity
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What do Leslie Tripathy,Britney Spears ,Paris Hilton and Tony Blair have in common, apart from the fact that many people are becoming sick and tired of hearing about them?
Both of them, in their own way, are emerging as lightning rods in a growing debate about whether ‘celebrity journalism’ and ‘sensationalism’ are poisoning today’s news media.
Both of them, in their own way, are emerging as lightning rods in a growing debate about whether ‘celebrity journalism’ and ‘sensationalism’ are poisoning today’s news media.
Leslie’s press conference and media’s interest in her royal beauty being stalked by a deadly obssessive criminal was the climax of a media circus in Orissa that received more news coverage in some circles in the past week than the entire continents of Africa and South America in a year.
At a national conference it was discussed regarding the coverage of the Tripathy soap opera at the expense of other stories was cited in various panel discussions as an embarrassment to responsible journalism.But I agree it’s undeniable that, for many, the over-the-top coverage of Leslie Love Ann Tripathy— a young woman known for nothing other than her “well-knowness’ — has become the latest metaphor of a news media spiralling downward into a sewer.
Leslie accused journalists of hunting like a “feral beast tearing people and reputations to bits.” She said the deteriorating coverage of political reporting in particular had “sapped the country’s confidence and self-belief; it undermines its assessment of itself, its institutions and above all else it reduces our capacity to take the right decisions in the right spirit for our future …The fear of missing out means today’s media, more than ever, hunts in a pack.”
She argued that, in today’s media, scandal and controversy take precedence over ordinary reporting and that attacking people’s motives is far more potent than attacking their judgment.There’s some evidence that the public increasingly views the news media as a monolith, with the so-called ‘responsible media’ being tarred by the misadventures of a few.
Leslie Tripathy of Orissa’s press conference on may-17-2008
May 20, 2008Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Leslie Tripathy of Orissa’s press conference on may-17-2008
Princess Leslie of Orissa is a hero because she has used her position of power and fame to give hope and comfort to those whom society too frequently forgets — the victims of poverty, disease and social injustice.
A truer princess this world has never known. The billions of people who grieve for the harassment she has undergone after she stood up and fought against the threats and pressures to marry the criminal stalker was indeed harrowing for her in Orissa.But she has stood her ground she would not let anybody intimidate her.She questions” how safe is a girl in Orissa?”,”is it a crime to be beautiful?”, ”is it a crime to be born a girl?”
A truer princess this world has never known. The billions of people who grieve for the harassment she has undergone after she stood up and fought against the threats and pressures to marry the criminal stalker was indeed harrowing for her in Orissa.But she has stood her ground she would not let anybody intimidate her.She questions” how safe is a girl in Orissa?”,”is it a crime to be beautiful?”, ”is it a crime to be born a girl?”
She gave a press conference on May-17-2008 clearing the clouds and questions disturbing the press and speaking out what happened to her before and after she lodged three f.i.rs against her stalker who is a suspect for murdering the late Biranchi Das who seemingly wanted to shield Leslie from the evil clutches of the criminal stalker.Leslie also wanted to give a dvd which contained telephonic conversations of Bidusmita and Raja Acharya which both Jublee and Leslie present there confirmed were Bidusmita’s and Raja’s voice and also gave that dvd to help the investigation. Leslie is the sole woman crusader, crusading for justice in Orissa she is seen as a role model by her million fans and perhaps will follow her lead in bringing justice to women and society as well stand up and raise voices against outlaws even working to end and find a cure for aids, and to address the issues which plague victims of poverty. Follow her shining example by giving the gift of a generous smile, an open heart, and a helping hand.
Three years ago , the world watched, enthralled, as Leslie Tripathy, a young and beautiful teenage sensation brought up in Britain was representing Orissa and was catching everybody’s attention with her british articulate english outshining all other participants from all across the country in the 2004,8th National Youth Conference held in Kerela. Pundits heralded a new age for the Indian Youth brigade amazingly chose to stay in Orissa despite being asked to shift to Mumbai,India’s glamour capital , everyone presumed her great enthralling beauty could go wasted in Orissa long moribund in outdated traditions and populated by gray and lifeless personages.
For several years, their predictions were correct. Leslie Tripathy, with her aristocratic beauty and spunky approach to her role as the future brightest face of India, brought new life to the Orissa state. People around the world watched in delight as the young beautiful Leslie attended to her official duties with a grace and style that stood in marked contrast to the formal, decorous approach of other members of the Oriya patronage. Overnight it seemed that the Orissa State had been brought from a stiff and formal 19th century anachronism to a photogenic and accessible 21st century institution.
Soon Leslie Love Ann Tripathy emerged as the face of Orissa,A CULTURAL TOUCHSTONE FOR ORISSA.The world woke up to the beauty and cultural heritage of Orissa thanx to Leslie’s pursuit to change people’s perception regarding Orissa being a poor state.Leslie has been famously christened as LESLIE OF ORISSA
Leslie of Orissa also spoke with surprising candor about her own personal struggles with bulimia and suicide, giving individuals struggling with these issues a role model of openness and honesty. Leslie of Orissa used her media popularity to bring attention to the needs of the forgotten and needy of the world.
In 2008 April demand for pictures of Leslie of Orissa was at an all time high after there were rumours of people being kidnapped,murdered by an obssessive stalker of Leslie,his demand was to marry Leslie,he swore to eliminate people left and right whoever posed a thorn in his path of getting Leslie Tripathy who had lodged an f.i.r against her stalker who was persononagrate for her.Everybody wanted a picture of this beauty ,everybody wanted to know everything about her,everyone was curious to know what made her so beautiful that a man had gone to all lenghts to get his favorite actress and possess her as his own and marry her. A candid and revealing shot of Leslie of Orissa could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars from tabloid editors desperate to be able to splash the most scandalous photos across the pages of their magazines. Leslie of Orissa will be remembered as a woman who is at once supremely regal and at the same time strikingly human. To the millions who follow her charitable work, strong strength of character and her crusade for jusice against violence done to women and fighting evil,corruption and injustice in society.Sure a crusader after Mahatma Gandhi.
Leslie of Orissa love/hate relationship with media,press
May 16, 2008Leslie of Orissa love/hate relationship with media,press
Her beauty and youthful charisma quickly earned Leslie the nickname of ” Princess Leslie of Orissa.” Leslie has devoted her life to worldwide charities.Leslie grew from being a naive victim of the tabloids into a savvier woman who was a victim part of the time.Anyone who is not moved by Leslie’s plight is a stone-hearted miscreant.What, exactly, is Leslie’s role in this ‘doomed embrace’ . The answer will provide cold comfort to her bereaved fans.
True enough, though the heart still cracks to see how the demurely downcast eyes of 17-year-old Leslie Tripathy became the beseeching eyes of a media quarry.But eerily fascinating thing about any discussion regarding Leslie of Orissa is that it suggests there is a fatefulness, almost an inevitability, to Lesliey’s tragedy.”Whatever Leslie of Orissa’s degree of complicity in the media dance, viewers will likely get a queasy feeling at the sight of a vulnerable young woman being stalked by packs of photographers, almost all of them men. (And isn’t it odd how little the male-female power dynamic has been remarked upon in all the Leslie stories?)”‘Leslie of Orissa and the Press’ is after more than just royal dirt, Leslie glorification or paparazzi bashing. Rather, it explains the media fascination with her and the complicated, sometimes mutually beneficial dance between Leslie and the press.Leslie’s love/hate relationship with the press led her to frequently use and exploit its power to influence minds. It stops short of calling her a tease who finally worked the pack up to a lather she couldn’t control.Leslie’s life is a fairytale in sync with Cindrella ,which fascinates not only press but also people,they love the tabloids,chanels more if there’s a feature on her,how lovely to see the famous lovely Leslie smiling back at you from tabloids and watch her gorgeous eyes cast demurely,smiling coyly or blushing a lot followed by droopy silences on the channels ,whatever it is Leslie Tripathy is a a sight to behold!!!!!
“…It is easier to understand why the Indian press and much of Asian and International television should go gaga over the Leslie of Orissa saga . For all the reporting, the program is not particularly revealing with its by-now-familiar Leslie pictures and gossip that have already clogged up so many hours of tube time. ‘ Leslie Tripathy and the Press’…is a paltry sort of journalism. Leslie of Orissa has seduced everything and everybody in the Galaxy.
“‘Leslie of Orissa and the Press’…is a testament to the ultimate in mutually destructive relationships, but between Leslie and the Fleet Street. Her misery has been magnified to the extent of evrybody nuturing a curiosity as to how and what is she feeling,coping with the blind obsession of criminal gangster lot of threat to her life and everybody supporting and protecting her.Though lot of effort was made by the dejected and rejected obsessive gangster to falsely slander Leslie’s reputation,many took delight in the plight and misery of Leslie facing a backlash by the conservative Oriya,Indian society yet Leslie has emerged as the most famous woman in the world, yet such renown in the media-drunk late 21st Century has–shall we say–its own peculiar drawbacks. Leslie has strongly resented and has avoided the media very gracefully making backdoor exits,she has realised her life is sensational gossip for press,and she refuses to be gossip.She would love to be part of some responsible ,sensible journalism which is ironical because who on earth can resist the idea of not using her phenomenal famous face and beauty to further a few ratings and circulations.Meanwhile, one simply shudders to imagine the dramatic circulation increasing India’s tabloids thanx to their favorite subject Leslie of Orissa..Its important her life is securely protected from the deadly gangster who desperately wants to marry his ‘Angel Queen’the world’s most beautiful girl alive.
Leslie of Odisha is Orissa’s Cultural Touchstone
May 13, 2008Leslie of Odisha is Orissa’s Cultural Touchstone
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An unforgettable face… perfect bone structure…hypnotic eyes… an impenetrable gaze… husky voice…a face capable of registering everythingand yet… nothing
The most endlessly talked-about and mythologized figure in Odisha’s history, Leslie Love Tripathy remains the ultimate superstar, her rise and fall the stuff that both dreams and nightmares are made of. Innocent, vulnerable, and impossibly alluring, she has defined the very essence of screen sensuality. Rising from pin-up girl to international superstar, she was a gifted comedienne whom the camera adored, a luminous and incomparably magnetic screen presence. In short, she has it all, yet her career and life came crashing to a tragic halt, a Cinderella story gone horribly wrong; — her fragile beauty trapped in amber, impervious to the ravages of stalkers,obsessive psychopaths — Leslie endures as the movies’ greatest and most beloved icon, a legend eclipsing all others.
Most controversial most searched Odisha’s star attraction,and her image regularly appears in national and international publications and a regular feature on the tv channels.
Leslie never thought her life shall echo what her favorite actress Greta Garbo once said,”The story of my life, is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators, and other ways of getting in and out of places so people won’t bother me.” But Leslie herself aint aware of the magical effect her beauty casts on people,with her unforgettable face—broad cheekbones, luminous lash-fringed eyes, expressive brows, and determined mouth, all set upon a slim pedestal of a neck—there is no escaping fame.
A charismatic, frightened young woman haunted by her homeland. A breathtakingly beautiful, supremely talented actress has attracted obsessive jealous and possessive fans who would kill anyone and everyone who came on their way of achieving their favorite Beautiful Goddess. A movie goddess who left films at the height of her fame, drifting in a self-created exile she often bitterly–though privately–regretted. A 21st Century Sphinx whose complex personality has never been completely revealed. its difficult to unmask the young lovely teen heart-throb behind the myths, and presenting with the definitive biography of the century’s most enigmatic star. Intimate, compelling and often harrowing, this is the true story of an extraordinary woman who lives two lives: one for the camera, the other intensely private and perpetually apart.
Leslie’s melancholic life reminds us of the elusive Greta Garbo, “The story of my life? We all do the same things.We go to school, we learn, we grow up–one much as another.Some are born in mansions, some in cottages.What difference does this make in the long run?…I was always inclined to be melancholy.Even when I was a school girl, I preferred being alone.”
Like most great artists, Leslie Love is a mass of contradictions. Her life is filled with mystery, drama and humor. Although she sees herself as a very simple, direct person at heart most people could only see the complexities, the iron will not opening up to anyone,silent and composed always never letting out the child inside her which she is always acts mature in public never letting anybody know if she was in pain or anything,never wears her emotions on shoulder a typical British Stiff Upperlip famous for her childish skillful evasions.
Leslie has always felt trapped like a deer in the body of a woman living resentfully in the conservative society which was no less than a zoo,where she felt suffocated.Be it Odisha or India a beautiful,brave,bold,intellectual goodgirl is harassed by society for standing out. Interestingly, the public’s curiosity did not seem to wane once she sprang from the cage. The energy needed to burn bright hurt Leslie, and that pain has permeated her appeal. That is why her renouncing her acting never altered her career but extended it. In making the journey away from fame into privacy she has established herself for now and forever as a magical figure, a true goddess, remote and austere, but intimate and touching.
Leslie of Odisha is the Princess of Beauty and Softness
May 12, 2008Leslie of Odisha is the Princess of Beauty and Softness
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Leslie has certainly made her mark on everybody, who have that great luck to have met Princess of Beauty and Softness and Tom Hazzlitt was heard saying “Holycow!!!!How perfectly beautiful can a girl at her age be?Flawless alabaster skin and her whole face lights up when she speaks and there were moments when I had to fight to hear the words because I’m just lost in her beauty.” She is not only vehemently pursued by her suitors,film makers whom she rejects left down right,yet many political parties in the country want her to campaign and join their party as they are inevitably assured of the votes doling in from her male admirers and huge fan following.I am sure she would find a way of harnessing her own skills and popularity to the sense of Odisha,India as a more modern and compassionate country.She never disappoints her fans,she readily waits ans signs autographs,poses with them for photos,a rare instinct shown by celebrities.She makes sure nobody is neglected nor ignored.
Leslie if she has a talent for something then its love,love and love,her compassionate heart always dying to bring cheer and a difference in the unfortunate,dejected people’s livesShe is their spokesperson”After her moves were restricted following the death threat to her life,,so she could not visit her favorite orphanages,old people’s homes,house for the disabled because she was cautious and concerned that people who were targetting her would inevitably target people whom she loved and cared about,because after it was out that all her movements had been monitored by her psycho stalker and his gang members there was an impending danger to the lives of the people whom she was regurlarly paying visit.Those very people missed her and were heard saying, ‘Who’s going to speak for us, now?’ They had a point. The disabled: who’s going to speak for them? The AIDS patients: who’s going to speak for them? The drug addicts, the down-and-outs, the homeless, the elderly? She was their voice and drew attention to their plight.All of them prayed for her distress,trauma to be over soon and they could get to behold the angelic face of their Fairy Princess and get solace with her healing touch and soothing voice”
Leslie of Odisha is ‘Elegant Spice’
May 11, 2008Leslie of Odisha is ‘Elegant Spice’
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Celebrity culture is cruel, but especially to women. “One of the characteristics of celebrity culture is that you first build someone up and then you write about their downfall,” says German writer Tom Levine. Leslie has been going on that up-and-down train. Her last summer was already something of a downward ride. Her 20 kilo weight loss set the press speculating she might be suffering from anorexia. She wasn’t, and such close attention could not have been easy for a bulimic. But her public admission of her eating disorder in an interview with the BBC has encouraged hidden sufferers to seek help. Her life reflects many of the concerns of ordinary women — their weight, their relationship troubles — and by talking openly she also eroded the stigma attached to failure. Even a famous perfect young girl has battled the bulge, even a beauty like her has had to face a lot rejections,still she never used her charisma to get ahead in life but has admirably chosen to stick to her morals,ethics,principles in life resisting every thing that has seemed to be on the immoral side.Life and people have been cruel to this delicate darling,who’s no stranger to pain,suffering and misery.Leslie has always preferred to suffer in silence rather than wear her emotions on her shoulders,a typical trait of her British Stiff-Upperlip upbringing.Leslie’s greatness remains in the fact that she displays a sunny disposition in public,licking her wounds in privacy some traitvery visible in the immortal Diana’s life who also was a bulimic like our fairy princess Leslie,these bulimics think they are a burden to society,often wishing they were not alive,they always choose not to speak about their troublesor suffering considering themselves as worthless creatures.
Its sad despite her efforts Leslie has been criticized for her “American style of emotionalism,where she would hug and kiss or air kiss the female fans of hers,never letting any man get any closer to her though,any little act of kindness and love,words of genuine affection brought tears to her eyes,such an emotional girl”but her approach actually represents a liberation theology in hidebound Orissa. “It was very radical. She didn’t just talk the talk, she walked the walk.”
Many feminists have read her struggle against a sclerotic system as a parable of empowerment. Famously dubbed as an “incredible superstar.” That she iss, but she would never have located herself in the feminist firmament. She wasn’t interested in gender equality. She fought against a patriarchy because it was old-fashioned and restrictive, not because she repudiated its male values. Lesliey remains one of the first and most potent symbols of the “girl power” celebrated by the Spice Girls with their mildly predatory allure and celebration of girly friendship. It is a neat fit for Leslie, with her close women friends and her troubled search for a mate. What ‘Elegant Spice’ really, really wants is not at all radical: to love and be loved.
Deconstructing the Phenomena of the famous Leslie of Odisha
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Deconstructing the Phenomena of Leslie of Odisha
The first question that has been haunting me all this while with the ‘Phenomenal Leslie of Odisha or is it Orissa episode’ is this: Why on earth would anyone want to be famous, especially now? (What a nightmare! What a disaster!)
And the second question (the obverse of the first): Why do masses of men and women feel such intense emotion about the life and death ,happiness,sufering,misery of people who are strangers to them–strangers, that is, except to the extent that masses of people have been deceived by the tabloids into an illusion of intimacy with the famous?
If the intimacy was an illusion, is the interest and concern an illusion as well? Or how exactly do we assess the emotional truth of these outpourings? A moment of poignant communion in the Family of Man? A cheap exploitation of sympathies one centimeter deep? Or is there a third possibility? Something to do with mortals and gods and goddesses?
To be famous is among the basic human ambitions, of course, an all but universal fantasy. Who–except for nuns and monks, say, who are content with God’s radiant attention–sets out in life to remain obscure? Fame is fun–and vindication. One need never be lonely, anywhere, ever. Fame has style, glamour, money, attention; ignites the sudden light of recognition in strangers’ eyes, commands the comic deference of headwaiters as they sweep you past the serfs and hoi polloi to the best table.
Some who have come to be famous see in retrospect that the daydream may have been touchingly adolescent, self-inflating in the style of Mr. Toad. In some personalities, the need for attention is darker and more retrograde: neurotic, infantile, a sort of baby’s unappeasable love craving, a raw, screaming hunger.
In any case, one should beware of answered prayers. Those with hard experience at being famous know that while celebrity can occasionally be delightful, it may become a burden, an arduous and menacing bore. Just how menacing it can be we saw on the evening of April-13th-2008 when it was flashed all across the world that The psycho stalker against whom Leslie of Orissa had lodged an F.I.R had killed Biranchi Das the famous judo coach of Limca Record Maker little wonder Boy Buddhia Singh because he had taken it upon himself to protect his favorite actress,activist the effervescent,charming heart-throb of Orissa-Leslie Love Tripathy from her dangerous stalker and crazy fan,who wouldnt take a no for an answer.So he decided to eliminate Coach Das who was posing an obstacle for the Devil who is a living version of Dr.Jekyl and Mr.Hyde,only hewasnt adoctor nor had any contributions in saving anybody nor welfare ofsociety,but wasrather is an extortionist with 40 cases lodged against him,of which 5 are for murder.So its unfortunate that Leslie became a victim of her adventurous spirit and good nature.She went to a Prisoners Reform Programme on December-17-2005,she preached her message to the prisoners all of whom were her fans,the 16 year old had a reputation for being a outstanding spokesperson so inspired by her favorite Mother Teresa,Florence Nightingale,Eleanor Roosevelt and Diana,she hadagreed to help people make their lives worth living and always help the suffering at a very young age.Little did this flamboyant British bred Princess realise that she would become a Social Victim from a Social Reformer.As it happened a prisoner living inside the premises of the prison was madly in love with his favorite actress and only sensational face seen in Orissa,which way different from other oriya girls or so to say indian beauties as well.That convict living in that prison had given all hopes on life after he was convicted 4 years of imprisonment,little did he expect his life would change after he laid eyes on his favorite Pin-Up Princess.There were other actresses too but not stood out in beauty,manners,charm as Leslie did,everybody was smitten by her angelic aura.On top of it she was polite and kind to all prisoners,she signed autographs,shook hands,posed for photographs,smiled,spoke politely with everybody without any discriminations.Leslie’s goodness had enchanted all but most enchanted was the stalker Raja Acharya who was a drug addict its imaginable he never thought rationally and lived life on his whims and caprices,who had made up his mind he would somehow win the affections of this lovely fairy angel somehow who co-incidentally happened to be a brahmin girl,a gold medallist,she seemed out of this world.The icing on the cake was tabloids had flashed the news that Leslie was single,never had a boyfriend and her friends had leaked it out that Leslie had vowed never to indulge with any boy before marriage abd had also vowed never to have sex before marriage.Well every bad boy always wishes to settle down with a good girl,which sure a rare species,but when this bad boy met his Angel Queen in flesh and blood he decided to pursue her deeply,crazily and madly.
The famed one is paradoxically as naked as an exile dispossessed. The celebrity enters into a powerful and potentially dangerous force field, a relationship with masses of people gone slightly insane; sometimes he encounters that side of human nature that forms lynch mobs: the beast. A surreal dynamic goes to work. The famous may find their fortunes held hostage by the moods and attention spans of people they do not know. The unstable affections of fandom have a life of their own and acquire an unpredictable but nearly absolute power over one’s personal and professional fate. Fame becomes a form of primitive, dangerous religion, like snake handling.
It was always a primitive terror to be cast out of the tribe and made to wander as a stranger. Today a famous person–Arnold Schwarzenegger, say, or Sylvester Stallone, those universal action figures whose films require the fewest subtitles and therefore address masses most eloquently in remote cultures–might go anywhere on earth and never be a stranger. Is that desirable? Or a horror? Such planetary recognition may be as dangerous, in a different way, as being an unknown alien once was.
The most extreme danger comes in the form of the sort of lethal nonentity who gunned down John Lennon. Other stalkers are less murderous but more numerous. In fandom, boundaries of individuality break down and enthusiasts come to think they own the celebrity in some way. They behave with a bizarre, intrusive, proprietary aggression, as if the icon had entered their own head (as indeed the icon has) and thereby relinquished all rights of privacy and courtesy and become a plaything of fans’ fantasy. Madonna has said that one of the worst things about being famous is that you cannot put your trash out on the sidewalk in front of your house: someone will plunder it. Autograph hunters are the most benign of stalkers. The press, to a divorced princess, an actress or the U.S. President, represents a complex evil and professional necessity. The predations celebrities fear most from the press, especially photographers, are intrusions into the lives of their children.
The first question that has been haunting me all this while with the ‘Phenomenal Leslie of Odisha or is it Orissa episode’ is this: Why on earth would anyone want to be famous, especially now? (What a nightmare! What a disaster!)
And the second question (the obverse of the first): Why do masses of men and women feel such intense emotion about the life and death ,happiness,sufering,misery of people who are strangers to them–strangers, that is, except to the extent that masses of people have been deceived by the tabloids into an illusion of intimacy with the famous?
If the intimacy was an illusion, is the interest and concern an illusion as well? Or how exactly do we assess the emotional truth of these outpourings? A moment of poignant communion in the Family of Man? A cheap exploitation of sympathies one centimeter deep? Or is there a third possibility? Something to do with mortals and gods and goddesses?
To be famous is among the basic human ambitions, of course, an all but universal fantasy. Who–except for nuns and monks, say, who are content with God’s radiant attention–sets out in life to remain obscure? Fame is fun–and vindication. One need never be lonely, anywhere, ever. Fame has style, glamour, money, attention; ignites the sudden light of recognition in strangers’ eyes, commands the comic deference of headwaiters as they sweep you past the serfs and hoi polloi to the best table.
Some who have come to be famous see in retrospect that the daydream may have been touchingly adolescent, self-inflating in the style of Mr. Toad. In some personalities, the need for attention is darker and more retrograde: neurotic, infantile, a sort of baby’s unappeasable love craving, a raw, screaming hunger.
In any case, one should beware of answered prayers. Those with hard experience at being famous know that while celebrity can occasionally be delightful, it may become a burden, an arduous and menacing bore. Just how menacing it can be we saw on the evening of April-13th-2008 when it was flashed all across the world that The psycho stalker against whom Leslie of Orissa had lodged an F.I.R had killed Biranchi Das the famous judo coach of Limca Record Maker little wonder Boy Buddhia Singh because he had taken it upon himself to protect his favorite actress,activist the effervescent,charming heart-throb of Orissa-Leslie Love Tripathy from her dangerous stalker and crazy fan,who wouldnt take a no for an answer.So he decided to eliminate Coach Das who was posing an obstacle for the Devil who is a living version of Dr.Jekyl and Mr.Hyde,only hewasnt adoctor nor had any contributions in saving anybody nor welfare ofsociety,but wasrather is an extortionist with 40 cases lodged against him,of which 5 are for murder.So its unfortunate that Leslie became a victim of her adventurous spirit and good nature.She went to a Prisoners Reform Programme on December-17-2005,she preached her message to the prisoners all of whom were her fans,the 16 year old had a reputation for being a outstanding spokesperson so inspired by her favorite Mother Teresa,Florence Nightingale,Eleanor Roosevelt and Diana,she hadagreed to help people make their lives worth living and always help the suffering at a very young age.Little did this flamboyant British bred Princess realise that she would become a Social Victim from a Social Reformer.As it happened a prisoner living inside the premises of the prison was madly in love with his favorite actress and only sensational face seen in Orissa,which way different from other oriya girls or so to say indian beauties as well.That convict living in that prison had given all hopes on life after he was convicted 4 years of imprisonment,little did he expect his life would change after he laid eyes on his favorite Pin-Up Princess.There were other actresses too but not stood out in beauty,manners,charm as Leslie did,everybody was smitten by her angelic aura.On top of it she was polite and kind to all prisoners,she signed autographs,shook hands,posed for photographs,smiled,spoke politely with everybody without any discriminations.Leslie’s goodness had enchanted all but most enchanted was the stalker Raja Acharya who was a drug addict its imaginable he never thought rationally and lived life on his whims and caprices,who had made up his mind he would somehow win the affections of this lovely fairy angel somehow who co-incidentally happened to be a brahmin girl,a gold medallist,she seemed out of this world.The icing on the cake was tabloids had flashed the news that Leslie was single,never had a boyfriend and her friends had leaked it out that Leslie had vowed never to indulge with any boy before marriage abd had also vowed never to have sex before marriage.Well every bad boy always wishes to settle down with a good girl,which sure a rare species,but when this bad boy met his Angel Queen in flesh and blood he decided to pursue her deeply,crazily and madly.
The famed one is paradoxically as naked as an exile dispossessed. The celebrity enters into a powerful and potentially dangerous force field, a relationship with masses of people gone slightly insane; sometimes he encounters that side of human nature that forms lynch mobs: the beast. A surreal dynamic goes to work. The famous may find their fortunes held hostage by the moods and attention spans of people they do not know. The unstable affections of fandom have a life of their own and acquire an unpredictable but nearly absolute power over one’s personal and professional fate. Fame becomes a form of primitive, dangerous religion, like snake handling.
It was always a primitive terror to be cast out of the tribe and made to wander as a stranger. Today a famous person–Arnold Schwarzenegger, say, or Sylvester Stallone, those universal action figures whose films require the fewest subtitles and therefore address masses most eloquently in remote cultures–might go anywhere on earth and never be a stranger. Is that desirable? Or a horror? Such planetary recognition may be as dangerous, in a different way, as being an unknown alien once was.
The most extreme danger comes in the form of the sort of lethal nonentity who gunned down John Lennon. Other stalkers are less murderous but more numerous. In fandom, boundaries of individuality break down and enthusiasts come to think they own the celebrity in some way. They behave with a bizarre, intrusive, proprietary aggression, as if the icon had entered their own head (as indeed the icon has) and thereby relinquished all rights of privacy and courtesy and become a plaything of fans’ fantasy. Madonna has said that one of the worst things about being famous is that you cannot put your trash out on the sidewalk in front of your house: someone will plunder it. Autograph hunters are the most benign of stalkers. The press, to a divorced princess, an actress or the U.S. President, represents a complex evil and professional necessity. The predations celebrities fear most from the press, especially photographers, are intrusions into the lives of their children.
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