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Tom is More Important Than Math
The star-struckedness of Shreveport has been cracking me up. In the last two years, Shreveport has been the filming location for several big movies: The Guardian, Premonition, Factory Girl, The Reaping... just to name a few.
On the radio, people will call in and say "I saw Diane Keaton at Rack Room Shoes!" or "Queen Latifah was buying tampons at the Piggly Wiggly!" It makes me laugh because who the fuck cares. I've seen celebrities, met the president, etc... people need to get over it. It might be cool the first time but come on. I'm afraid the movie world is seeing that Shreveport is a bunch of backward hicks that piss themselves whenever a famous person walks by.
What's even crazier is to have friends be extras in movies and then they think that they are movie stars. Who cares if you were lead homeless person that had one line that ended up being cut during production. Is it really that big of a deal to be listed as Escort #2 on imdb.com? Give up the acting 'career' and get back to your real life.
So yesterday, I pulled up to the Sylvan parking lot and saw that there were three or four huge trailers where we normally park. I found a new place to park and didn't think anything about it. During the first hour of tutoring, someone walked in and yelled that Tom Cruise was just seen walking into one of the trailers. You would have thought they were giving away free donuts at a fat farm. It took less than five seconds for almost the entire Sylvan office to evacuate and run out to the lobby and outside. This included all the students being tutored, the staff doing the tutoring and the directors of Sylvan as well. The only ones that didn't move were myself and another one of the tutorers. I just looked at her and said "Apparently Tom Cruise is more important than education."
A few moments later, there was a Katie Holmes sighting and again people ran outside. Now this is slightly more understandable because Katie is WAY better than crazy-couch-jumping Tom Cruise, but come on. It's hard enough to teach these students (who are already failing mind you) without having celebrities add yet another distraction. This didn't make me angry but I just thought the behavior was ridiculous especially from the adults who were acting worse than the kids.
So much for trying to set a good example. Next time, I'm just going to run around the office like a fool like everyone else.
On the radio, people will call in and say "I saw Diane Keaton at Rack Room Shoes!" or "Queen Latifah was buying tampons at the Piggly Wiggly!" It makes me laugh because who the fuck cares. I've seen celebrities, met the president, etc... people need to get over it. It might be cool the first time but come on. I'm afraid the movie world is seeing that Shreveport is a bunch of backward hicks that piss themselves whenever a famous person walks by.
What's even crazier is to have friends be extras in movies and then they think that they are movie stars. Who cares if you were lead homeless person that had one line that ended up being cut during production. Is it really that big of a deal to be listed as Escort #2 on imdb.com? Give up the acting 'career' and get back to your real life.
So yesterday, I pulled up to the Sylvan parking lot and saw that there were three or four huge trailers where we normally park. I found a new place to park and didn't think anything about it. During the first hour of tutoring, someone walked in and yelled that Tom Cruise was just seen walking into one of the trailers. You would have thought they were giving away free donuts at a fat farm. It took less than five seconds for almost the entire Sylvan office to evacuate and run out to the lobby and outside. This included all the students being tutored, the staff doing the tutoring and the directors of Sylvan as well. The only ones that didn't move were myself and another one of the tutorers. I just looked at her and said "Apparently Tom Cruise is more important than education."
A few moments later, there was a Katie Holmes sighting and again people ran outside. Now this is slightly more understandable because Katie is WAY better than crazy-couch-jumping Tom Cruise, but come on. It's hard enough to teach these students (who are already failing mind you) without having celebrities add yet another distraction. This didn't make me angry but I just thought the behavior was ridiculous especially from the adults who were acting worse than the kids.
So much for trying to set a good example. Next time, I'm just going to run around the office like a fool like everyone else.