You remember that game we all use play when we were kids, telephone, I think it was called... the one where you whisper something in someone's ear and they whisper it into the next person's ear and so on... at the end things have been added, deleted, or changed from what was first said? Well, I've long suspected that the internet is a lot like that game, it's probably due to the quickness of it all... they're all in a huge hurry to be the first to throw the news out there and then check the facts later and they end up rewriting it 15 times. As a result, 15 people may have read 15 different versions. (Of course, this is just one issue I have with the current state of the media but that's not what this entry is about.) Here is a (completely frivolous) example that I noticed last week...
June 4 - In Liz Smith's column I read this story: "BRITAIN'S BIG glamour couple, Victoria Beckham, the former Spice Girl and her hubby David Beckham, the hunky soccer star, have literally blown away all other celeb duets. Forget Madonna and Guy, Ben and Jen, etc. It's Ms. Spice and Mr. B. all the way. They will appear on the September cover of Vogue photographed by Mario Testino. Victoria has a new CD coming, produced by Damon Dash. She'll also model with Naomi Campbell in print ads for Dash's clothing line — Rocawear. Much fun was had recently when Victoria and David helped Naomi celebrate her birthday in St. Tropez. The Mrs. sang songs from her album. But the Mr. spilled red wine all over his white pants. (Miss Campbell requested all her guests wear white.) Rather than sit stained and damp, David removed his trousers. At first Victoria thought it was funny, but then decided that David, in his white skivvies, was getting too much attention from the ladies. Victoria cleared off a table and used the tablecloth as a modest sarong for her immodest spouse."
Later that day... I read The Fix on Salon which linked to the Liz Smith story but with different details: "Gotta love those other royals, David and (Posh Spice) Victoria Beckham, who are touring the United States in an attempt to be as hugely glam across the pond as they are in the U.K. They shot a Vogue cover with hot photogger Mario Testino and caused commotion at supermodel Naomi Campbell's recent wedding. Seems the bride asked her guests to wear white, which was probably lovely, but David spilled red wine on his trousers and decided to take them off and continue partying. Victoria took one look at the ladies looking at her hubby's lingerie and quickly made a sarong for him out of a tablecloth. And that's how new fashion trends begin, folks."
Flash forward a couple of days when I caught BeatBoxBetty's MTV Movie Awards gossip: "Apparently at P. Diddy's after-show party, Beyonce Knowles, Josh Hartnett and even Michael Jackson requested an introduction to meet the couple du jour, Posh Spice (now Victoria Beckham) and soccer great David Beckham. The two decided to go over the top in matching white-and-diamonds D&G get-ups, which proved to be not such a hot idea after all. While whooping it up at the post party, David was forced to remove his glittery pants after spilling red wine all over them. Thankfully his quick-thinking gal grabbed a tablecloth and whipped up a stylish sarong for him to wear. Pretty clever. Hey Posh, I hear Martha Stewart's job is available these days."
I'll just go with Liz Smith on this one. Of course, only a Beckham-phile like myself would even notice such a thing and I do realize that all gossip (as well as most news, which nearly indistinguishable from gossip these days) should be taken with a grain of salt but I just thought that it was a funny example of "internet telephone"...
June 4 - In Liz Smith's column I read this story: "BRITAIN'S BIG glamour couple, Victoria Beckham, the former Spice Girl and her hubby David Beckham, the hunky soccer star, have literally blown away all other celeb duets. Forget Madonna and Guy, Ben and Jen, etc. It's Ms. Spice and Mr. B. all the way. They will appear on the September cover of Vogue photographed by Mario Testino. Victoria has a new CD coming, produced by Damon Dash. She'll also model with Naomi Campbell in print ads for Dash's clothing line — Rocawear. Much fun was had recently when Victoria and David helped Naomi celebrate her birthday in St. Tropez. The Mrs. sang songs from her album. But the Mr. spilled red wine all over his white pants. (Miss Campbell requested all her guests wear white.) Rather than sit stained and damp, David removed his trousers. At first Victoria thought it was funny, but then decided that David, in his white skivvies, was getting too much attention from the ladies. Victoria cleared off a table and used the tablecloth as a modest sarong for her immodest spouse."
Later that day... I read The Fix on Salon which linked to the Liz Smith story but with different details: "Gotta love those other royals, David and (Posh Spice) Victoria Beckham, who are touring the United States in an attempt to be as hugely glam across the pond as they are in the U.K. They shot a Vogue cover with hot photogger Mario Testino and caused commotion at supermodel Naomi Campbell's recent wedding. Seems the bride asked her guests to wear white, which was probably lovely, but David spilled red wine on his trousers and decided to take them off and continue partying. Victoria took one look at the ladies looking at her hubby's lingerie and quickly made a sarong for him out of a tablecloth. And that's how new fashion trends begin, folks."
Flash forward a couple of days when I caught BeatBoxBetty's MTV Movie Awards gossip: "Apparently at P. Diddy's after-show party, Beyonce Knowles, Josh Hartnett and even Michael Jackson requested an introduction to meet the couple du jour, Posh Spice (now Victoria Beckham) and soccer great David Beckham. The two decided to go over the top in matching white-and-diamonds D&G get-ups, which proved to be not such a hot idea after all. While whooping it up at the post party, David was forced to remove his glittery pants after spilling red wine all over them. Thankfully his quick-thinking gal grabbed a tablecloth and whipped up a stylish sarong for him to wear. Pretty clever. Hey Posh, I hear Martha Stewart's job is available these days."
I'll just go with Liz Smith on this one. Of course, only a Beckham-phile like myself would even notice such a thing and I do realize that all gossip (as well as most news, which nearly indistinguishable from gossip these days) should be taken with a grain of salt but I just thought that it was a funny example of "internet telephone"...
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