Professional Celebrities
Taylor Swift, Beyonce Knowles, Kanye West. Three names that between them have over 60m search results on Google. Each a successful artist in their own right, and all the centre of the latest celebrity controversy to plaster tabloids, and the internet, across the country. Of course I am referring to MTV’s VMA awards incident that has caused much debate (or not) among the Maxus office.
This led me to think about our general fascination with celebrity and specifically what we find so appealing with it. With this in mind I’d like to pose the following question:
If you could work with any one person or celebrity for the remainder of your life (living or dead, fictional or non-fictional) who would it be?
September 16th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Mary Poppins - there would be lots of singing and she could click her fingers and all my work could be done!
September 16th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Maybe Ghengis Khan, as he would be the strong silent type. if i was not getting the rates i wanted I would send him and his army to stand outside the publishers office….just to reinforce my power.
Or, one of the great Philosophers: Socrates, Kant, Humes as we would have great conversations
Da Vinci would be one crazy guy and always coming up with innovative ideas that could spill over into media.
Undecided as of right now.
September 16th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
I can’t choose 1 person, can I have the entire band East17?
September 16th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Frank W. Abagnale Jr, or Hunter Thompson… either would make for a pretty varied career.
Actually Bruce Wayne would be pretty handy..
Tis’ a tough one.
September 17th, 2009 at 9:31 am
On the basis that 1 seems to be a stretch (?!)…
Kurt Vonnegut (so it goes) because of his wry, humourous, humanist take on life - everything would always be in perspective.
Or, perhaps, Voltaire in a Candide mood.
September 17th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
That is easy…. Jeremy from Monkey World!!
September 18th, 2009 at 7:47 am
Hmm, I have always found the greater public’s obsession with celebritites to be perplexng. What is interesting is the different ways these obsessions manifest themselves - in the States celebrities generally seem to be glorified whereas in the UK we seem to love nothing more than to cut them down.
Basically it would have to be someone who earned their fame, rather than being a manufactured icon. That said, I could probably handle going to work on, sorry , with Jessica Alba for a good few years.
Socrates and Da Vinci are definitely good calls. I’ll go for someone living though - Richard Branson. He’s tried his hand in about every industry going so work would never be a bore. He has a healthy sense of adventure, two private islands, is doing lots of good humanitarian work and who wouldnt want to be on that first commercial flight into space with him on Virgin Galactic??
September 18th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
It’s hard to look past Oliver Reed. However, media is already quite a boozy working environment and I don’t think the industry could quite cope with another self absorbed, self righteous alcoholic.
Other potential candidates include Martin Sheen (hero and all round nice guy), Dr. Manhattan (he can literally do anything) and the T-800 from T2 (for protection, like).