Til Schweiger is said to have exposed a fan, Sylvie Meis breaks with her classic look and Harrison Ford is an incredible eighty years old. Vip, Vip, Hooray! – the celebrity weekly recap is here.
People love to get excited. Preferably about celebrities. The gossip press is all too happy to jump on any faux pas that many a celebrity is said to have made. Sour moral articles are floating through the gazettes about what is proper and what is not. Can you find that hypocritical? Of course.
Storm in a teacup this week: the actor Til Schweiger. He put a clip online on his Instagram account, showing a woman who, a little shy, with a fluppe in her hand, approaches the filmmaker and asks him if he is the actor of “Keinohrhasen”. The 58-year-old, who cannot be seen in the clip, replies with wonderful irony: “No, but I think the film is good.”
The woman, who speaks with dialect, asks again: “Aren’t you the famous actor?” Schweiger says no again. He captioned the short video: “OMG… how cute… his not the babba?” Too much for the moralizers who like to get excited artificially and immediately assume a certain maliciousness in him. Schweiger would present and expose the woman, are just some of the comments. The press reports directly from “Shitstorm”.
The many comments that Schweiger sees the chat with the lady as endearing and with a wink are largely swept under the carpet. After all, excitement clicks way better. Not only the Instagram algorithm knows this. Anyone who takes the trouble and pays particular attention to the actor’s latter interviews will learn that the filmmaker is not one who needs to show off, embarrass or put other people down. On the contrary!
When asked about a possible participation in the “jungle camp”, he did not answer that the format repelled him, as can be read, but something completely different! Without wanting to “put anyone down”: “What I don’t like about the show are the moderators who make fun of it. That’s all scripted, I don’t like that, that repels me. So first invite the people and themselves then make fun of them, I don’t like that.” And so the words in the mouth of the successful director are twisted and a small clip on social media showing a sequence that the “Kokowääh” maker finds “cute” is constructed into a “shitstorm” that isn’t one at all.
We are currently living in difficult times. While Economics Minister Robert Habeck sees “social peace in Germany as badly challenged and strained” and our newlywed Finance Minister Lindner would like to massively cut funds for the long-term unemployed, linear television is also deep in crisis.
On the one hand they want to win the young audience with a crowbar, on the other hand they have made themselves comfortable in a mothball due to a lack of ideas. But young people aren’t going after 8:15 p.m., and reality formats designed on the drawing board aren’t getting any better, just because they’re now being politically correct to say that no resentment should be tolerated on the show. The most recent example: “The big celebrity penance” on ProSieben. Concept: Disgraced celebrities apologize for their transgressions. And so Matthias Mangiapane, one of the biggest bullies in recent trash TV history, is again offered a platform for a lot of money. Matthias can now dutifully apologize for how disgustingly he treated Claudia Obert on “Celebrities under Palm Trees”. So he grins a little snotfully and says he’s sorry. All of this is about as credible as the broadcaster’s assurances that Throwing Helena Fürst out of the show for her own protection.
Sylvie Meis is said to have surprised her fans. Yes? With what? Did the 44-year-old decide to study law in order to debate with Minister of Justice Buschmann about “nonsense law” and the ban he thought up for a Ballermann song? Unfortunately, no! It’s just the baggy pants she’s wearing that takes her fans’ breath away. Oh, it must be a nice life when a woman in “trendy baggy pants” amazes people!
This can be more about the fact that the star warrior and most famous archaeologist in cinema history Harrison Ford has actually turned eighty this week. There’s nothing Ford hasn’t achieved in Hollywood. Incidentally, in a Netflix documentary about the American writer Joan Didion, Ford can still be admired at a time long before his great career as a film icon. As a young man he had worked on Didion’s wooden beach mansion in Malibu in the late 1960s. The two hit it off and became friends until the writer’s death in December last year. Who is interested in the documentary: It bears the wise title, which is more relevant than ever in today’s society: “The middle will not last”. Until next week!
