Oh, THOSE things. Things a reporter must avoid or twist.

the very ones - is that an unwritten rule for the gutter press?

well by now everyone should know facts and tabloids are strangers, even Max Clifford was on TV saying the press was peddling more speculation and sensationalism than facts these days to try to get reader numbers up, circulation is falling so much - he said he deals in far more protection of people from the press than publicising nowadays - so if Clifford is now saying its gone too far and the press are using specualtion and gossip rather than facts - there must be a problem!!!

The problem is that with the common usage of other means of communication (computers, T.V., radio, etc)

newspapers are fighting for their very existence. A great deal of money and a great deal of power is involved, so papers

will print any rubbish as long as the headlines scream out to catch the public's eye. Facts are irrelevant.

OT Did anyone watch the early I'd Do Anything shows? When I watched these blogs from the link on Sonnet's site, I noticed that Sir Trevor Nunn said their casting director was David Grinderod(Sp) who was the casting director shown in IDA?

 

I'm beginning to wonder how many people were in the audition room "late one evening" when a certain young man strode in.

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Well, I hope he was. The more people who get to witness just how good Darius is, the better.

I agree,

I bet, after the album and Broadway, it's a film next for Darius.

The problem is that with the common usage of other means of communication (computers, T.V., radio, etc)

newspapers are fighting for their very existence. A great deal of money and a great deal of power is involved, so papers

will print any rubbish as long as the headlines scream out to catch the public's eye. Facts are irrelevant.

 

Why is it only since the millennium the GBP have craved sensationalism and allowed it to snowball to the extent that anything normal is 'boring' or 'cheesy'and to be despised, despite a good proportion of readers being fully aware that what they are reading is mostly drivel? I don't get it.

 

Personally I blame 'heat'.

 

It started back then, didn't it? heat also latched on to reality TV very early on, giving pages and pages to Big Brother and turning the ordinary people on there into celebrities.

 

Of course, in my eyes, 'heat' wasn't all bad - it single-handedly supported Darius at the time he was being savaged by the rest of the media.

Just maybe, maybe, the GBP will use the sensationalism and celebrity worship to stave off the harshness of the looming

recession. Everyone needs dreams, but not everyone has the imaginative skill to create their own.

Seems odd. Reading a constant stream of woes would make me more not less depressed in a recession.

 

After GWTW, I'll support Darius whatever he decides to do and wherever he goes. I do pray that he will continue to write and release albums, whatever else he does. Cast albums/soundtrack albums would be nice, but never 'Darius'.

A few intimate, accoustic gigs would be wonderful.

Seems odd. Reading a constant stream of woes would make me more not less depressed in a recession.

 

I was thinking more from the glorification of celebs angle.....all the glitz and glamour.

And ruined lives and pulling people to peices and trying to ruin careers. I preferred it when they just said what people were doing and left them alone. These dodgy pics should nevfer be published. I can't stand Heat.

Don't think I've ever read it. Give me a good book any day.

If Darius goes into films we may not see much of him in the future. I hope he does

some more gigs first....we have waited a long time for the 3rd album.

I can't see much glamour in today's celebs, just a fashion parade of cosmetically enhanced dolls.

 

I look at the Hollywood stars and think who has the class that the majority of movie stars used to have and I can only come up with Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall, Tom Hanks, George Clooney among the males and Kate Blanchett, Renee Zellweger of the younger generation of females.

 

I'll possibly come up with more females later.

I hate to say this BT but could this be the more mature way of looking at things. Presumably things appear

different through teenage eyes.........the present day stars are the ones teenagers will nostalgically recall

in fifty years time.

That is true. Each generation has a strong bond to the music and cinematic culture of their youth.

 

My lovely dream of 6 months, 3months and 3 months, juggling writing, releasing and promotion of an album and a little gig in the West End or a film, has been shattered by the enormity of GWTW. Nearly the whole of this year is taken up by it, even if Darius doesn't extend, he'llneed to wind down. I think he'd head back home to LA and his next project would be in America.

 

I'd be happy if Darius released his 3rd album and simply did a few concerts/gigs if he was busy on other projects and maybe TV advertised the album with personal appearances on one or two high profile shows.

 

He doesn't need to tour the thing or release a slew of singles with all the promotion they'd take. He'd probably make more money from fewer sales as the main songwriter in the long term than individual members of 4/5 piece groups who do better in the charts.

 

But he REALLY wants to perform it. He'd be absolutely gutted if he couldn't. He loves all the work he does but, in his mind, it's the singing and writing that is so much part of his life.

We'll have to leave the heart searching and juggling to him. I've got a feeling he's going to have a lot of offers to wade through.