Oh the glamour of television! The beautiful stars of our favorite television shows look so stunning and perfect. The Gorilla is a big fan of TV sitcoms and high drama and even reality TV (he just loves The Apprentice). Even the Donald looks decent on TV, but that is not likely going to be the case in the very near future, as TV goes HD! Hi-Def is the big dread of the hottest stars on the tube because as you may imagine, our very perfect vision of them (compliments of normal TV quality), will no longer be so perfect.
Age spots, dark circles, bad skin, wrinkles….they will all be crystal clear when HD is near! Even a local TV news anchor crew the Gorilla watches, was discussing their apprehension over the new very detailed and concise picture the Hi-Def image will provide! One of the female anchors wanted to inform the public of her “imperfections” that will be apparent once the switch is made to the Hi-Def format, but stated that “it is a good thing because people have an unrealistic image of perfection with the current TV format.”
But, is it a good thing? Perhaps it is, since too much emphasis is already put on society to look perfect. Some think the more realistic HD format will awaken young teens to the fact that the celebrities they so want to emulate have basically all the same flaws as they do! Well that is certainly a good thing to be sure, but hey, are we sure we want to see all of Brad Pitt’s pock marks and Cameron Diaz’s bad skin, up close and personal? Maybe it’s selfish, but the Gorilla kinda likes the glossy, treated, almost ethereal looks of the TV stars because it represents a kind of magical world of fantasy and yes, perfection. Let’s face it, there isn’t a lot of it in the real world these days, so the glamour of Hollywood can take us away and make us dream a little dream of all things wonderful and surreal! Okay okay, so maybe that’s a bit corny, but you get the idea.
The point is, the Gorilla wants to imagine that indeed Angelina Jolie, (who he doubts he will ever meet in person) really is as gorgeous as she is on the TV screen! You can call the Gorilla shallow, but hey, a guy is still a guy even if he is a primate. The same could apply to the ladies as far as Brad Pitt or George Clooney is concerned! The public wants to see that good-looking airbrushed face, after all- that is certainly what we pay for isn’t it? But back to the many issues of the tween girls of our society; yes, yes, there certainly is a lot of unrealism with celebrities, so if the Hi-Def format helps these girls with their poor self-image, then the Gorilla will have to (reluctantly) concede the point. Bye bye, Angelina’s perfectly proportioned bod, I guess we all must make sacrifices.