Why do intelligent people read these magz??

[RichKid]

Could someone please explain to me why very intelligent men and women (mainly women) read these silly celebrity style gossip mags?? This article gets stuck into it. I really don't know why, if it's to make conversation there must be more intelligent material out there, I see many professionals reading this stuff as well....please explain! (the standard, 'they're just women, you can't understand them' reply isn't good enough for me).

Why Tom and Nic really split

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/03/28/1143441139406.html
By Lenny Ann Low
SMH- People
March 29, 2006

This week the celebrity magazines dangle a carrot so golden, so mouth-wateringly mesmeric it's all that we can do to open the glossy pages.

It all starts with the cover of Woman's Day and the headline "FBI Tapes Reveal Why Tom and Nicole Split". Inside, below a blurry photo of said ex-couple looking fed up and daggily coiffured, is news of a tape "that reveals why Nic and Tom split". Scandalous details are surely to follow.

It seems an American private investigator, Anthony Pellicano, has taped Kidman and Cruise having "very private and very intimate" phone conversations, possibly discussing "the reasons for their divorce". Rousing stuff.

Then, while we're still waiting to hear what made the pair split, WD delivers one almighty waffle about Kidman being "terrified", "distraught", "upset", "panicking", "distressed", "bracing herself", "reliving her nightmare" and "concerned" about the tapes. Must be really bad.

Mere sentences later, WD kicks us in our desperate guts with reports the tapes are so embarrassing, Kidman and Cruise "could retreat out of the Hollywood spotlight completely".

While that may be blessed news for many, do we ever learn of the tapes' contents in this huff 'n' puff piece of journalism? No, we do not.

Undeterred, Star Enquirer reports that Scientology members are entering Cruise's LA home "carrying lecture boards". Each bears instructions for Katie Holmes to "remain silent during birth" and "make all movements slow and understandable". If Holmes had any sense, her development of various explicitly understandable "movements" would have been useful long ago.

The "increasingly tearful" Holmes, who is said to be "buckling under pressure" to be a "perfect Scientologist mum", entered hospital briefly last month after suffering a "shocking" collapse on a flight from Australia, according to NW.

In other inane news, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin have moved on from naming offspring after grocery produce and found inspiration in fictional flying midgets. Paltrow has reportedly settled on "Tink", as in Tinkerbell from Peter Pan, for the name of their second baby.

In Famous Jessica Simpson reveals both her frightening intellect and scary admiration for Angelina Jolie. "Just sitting in front of her I felt this incredible peace. I just couldn't help but stare." While you were sitting in front of her, Jessica?

Actor Ryan Phillippe has said he is worried his Oscar-winning wife, Reese Witherspoon, is going to "Chad Lowe me" because behind her girl-next-door image she's a "domineering" ambitious cow.

And, in a stunning insight into celebrity initiative, Frenchwoman Marie Cavallier has told a Danish newspaper she is in love with Prince Frederik's brother, Prince Joachim, without actually telling him first. "I haven't told him because I think this is very private and something I want to tell him myself." In trash-mag land that's called getting your priorities right.

 

[Prospector]

Women only read them while waiting for their turn to unload the groceries at the check-out queues.

Men, on the other hand, buy them because they never go grocery shopping.

 

[Julia]

Why do intelligent people read these mags?
Beats me,Rich. I didn't think any halfway intelligent people would even pick them up. The covers are bad enough.

Like Prospector, I see women reading them in supermarket queues, and some actually buy them. They go into trolleys containing lots of chips, cakes, cordials and at least two cartons of Coke, and devoid of any fresh fruit or vegetables.

All I can think of is that these women's lives are so dull they are looking for some sort of fantasy world where they can picture themselves leading what they perceive to be glamorous lives Dunno, really.

No real connection, but I'm reminded of a woman who was interviewed on TV some years ago after she had bought I think six television sets. When asked why, she said "Because they said if you bought one you would go into the draw to win a free basket of groceries worth $100." She didn't think there was anything wrong with her logic!

Julia

 

[professor_frink]

No real connection, but I'm reminded of a woman who was interviewed on TV some years ago after she had bought I think six television sets. When asked why, she said "Because they said if you bought one you would go into the draw to win a free basket of groceries worth $100." She didn't think there was anything wrong with her logic!

Julia

Now that's a model consumer for you!!
I actually read one of those magazines yesterday at my girlfriends mum's house- I can't see why she reads them- she can't give me a good reason why she reads them, yet EVERY BLOODY TIME I'M AT HER HOUSE I END UP READING ONE AND DOING THE CROSSWORD IN IT!!!!!
I think they must be like crack or cigarettes in that you know you shouldn't and it's not good for your health, yet you do it anyway.

 

[Milk Man]

My missus' excuse is that its for the recipes. Same as I buy playboy for the articles. Ashamedly, I admit that I read a few of said articles. My reasons? I was bored and I had forgotten how much crap these rags prattle on with. Oh and to have a perve at some of the sheilas.

 

[professor_frink]

My missus' excuse is that its for the recipes. Same as I buy playboy for the articles. Ashamedly, I admit that I read a few of said articles. My reasons? I was bored and I had forgotten how much crap these rags prattle on with. Oh and to have a perve at some of the sheilas.

tell her to buy the "food ideas" mag- its only a few dollars and funnily enough is full of recipes. No celebrity crap- my girlfriends mum tried using that excuse on me when I questioned her about it- She had the recipe book sitting on the coffee table next to it at the time!