Posts Tagged ‘Hollywood’

Entertainment and Obsession with Showbiz

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Is Entertainment only eye candy? What about the rest of the senses, what about their indulgence? If we go by the popularity of the entertainment news and paparazzi photographs, we might be surprised how voyeuristic people have become. Yes people have literally become obsessed with Hollywood and the glamorous showbiz industry, pushing paparazzi to invade the privacy of celebrities and cashing on off limits material.

Hollywood stars and their personal lives has become a world-wide obsession. The bling and shimmer of the glamor world has caught everybody’s fantasy. People imitate celebrity behavior blindly and end up either hurting themselves or others. It has to be ingrained into the society that entertainment is just a part of mass culture and not the heart and soul of it. We should work on developing other spheres of society as well and not concentrate wholly on the attractive yet elusive lifestyle.

Is theater losing its significance?

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Theater is an umbrella that consists of almost all art forms. Hence, it can never lose its significance, as long as there is art, theater shall be present and active. These days, more and more people are realizing the importance of theater and it has come to occupy a very elite position in society. Commercially, theater occasionally fares well as compared to Hollywood and film industries around the world.

It’s not that theater has lost its significance, still many people prefer theater to cinema but the majority lies with cinema. So, in today’s fast paced world, cinema has acquired more significance and theater artists and playwrights have to compete for audience with a much more technically advanced industry. Theater these days only needs a little support and impetuous from the general public.