Have you ever noticed what happens when someone tells the truth about how things really operate in a certain situation or a specific matter?
Mara Wilson, the actress who played Matilda in the kid’s movie Matilda recently addressed her fans’ question of why she stopped making movies.
“… [F]ilm acting is not very fun, something …” she says “… no real celebrity will ever tell you … ” Wilson explains what truly happens on a movie set regarding actresses and actors, “Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director’s eyes, you ‘get it right,’ does not allow for very much creative freedom.”
She ends the blog post, stating, “There is a saying amongst actors, said by Stella Adler or Uta Hagen or some other guru of the dramatic arts, ‘If you can live without [acting], you should.’ I have found that I can live without it.”
I always knew that as with all professions and careers or jobs, the art of acting held its downside. But having never observed a movie in the making, I could not quite figure out the downside. Wilson’s remarked validated a truth I knew existed.
Three hundred and eighty-seven comments streamed from the post, not a terribly whopping number compared to other topics addressed on Yahoo.com.
One could conclude her honest reporting received a bit of silence.
It is not always easy to accept that something is not always what it is “ … cracked up to be …” .
More of the same has occurred in response to the scandal regarding US Secret Service Agents hiring prostitutes preceding to the President’s recent trip to Cartagena, Colombia in South America.
News reports state that of the agents having arrived several days prior to President Obama, eleven engaged the services of prostitutes, which included bringing them back to the hotel where the agents stayed.
Many reporters are quick to point out that our President was in little danger, embarrassing as these detail are. “The President was had not arrived,” they say.
I cannot help wondering in light of all our concerns about terrorist incidents, what if these prostitutes had been an operative working for an agency that would have wanted to harm the President and/or send the United States a message, and their intention as a prostitute had included, along with servicing the Secret Service Agents, also leaving behind a bomb, or some other artillery device that they or some other person could have detonated long after their time with agents.
In any case I cannot image that the First Lady feels any more secure with her husband traveling around the world in places such as Colombia (think: Bogotá, drug lords, drug cartels, etc.) and with Secret Service Agents as his protection.
I also wonder about the agents themselves.
Has or did it never crossed their minds that perhaps any of these prostitutes might have targeted them for either blackmail or in the prostitute’s effort, again if working for an covert agency intending to harm the US, and also the agent?
In any case, the facts as dispensed across various Internet sites have left me shaking my head.
Whether we approve of our President or not, that we now learn what has been touted as a top-notch agency has its holes of less than justifiable and safe behavior incites me to wonder again and as with Mara Wilson’s comments on the true nature of working as an actress or actor, how often in our culture do the powers that be, usually those invested in one way or another in the focus of said discussion or scrutiny, exaggerate, embellish or out-right lie concerning the actual truth of the focus of the discussion.