The Fleeting Nature Of Fame

I was at my local mall today, and I happened to sit down for a minute.  The spot I picked was just inches from where our local celebrity, Fountain Girl, took her header right in to the fountain outside Boscov's. 

(Once more, just for giggles:)

Now, of course we haven't heard much from Fountain Girl lately, after it was revealed that she has all that trouble with the law going on.  And we wouldn't have heard anything from her in the first place, if she hadn't come forward and said it was her in the video.  No way would anyone have recognized her in that grainy security video, so she wouldn't have had to complain about how embarassed she was (so much so that she was going to sue).  Maybe she's happy now that's she's no longer the "it" thing of the moment.

Celebrity can sure be fleeting!  I guess that's a good thing for those folks like Fountain Girl who find themselves unexpectedly in the spotlight and don't want to be there.  Happens quite a lot in this day of the internet. 

And on the other side of the coin are those who actively court the spotlight but have trouble hanging onto it.  Example; our other local celebrity, Kate Gosselin (known locally as The Blonde From Wernersville).  Now there's somebody who has lived, reproduced, divorced, and (badly) danced across our TV screens, and called it a career.  Before her stint on Dancing With The Stars, I had no idea there were so many ways to do the Robot!  Despite her many efforts, though, she and her brood seem to have disappeared from the reality show universe.  No doubt she's up there in Wernersville, plotting her return to TV this very moment....