Word: saneness
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...Sane, well-balanced celebrities accept their fame as part of their working life, but also an irrelevance and an intrusion and a pain in the neck. It is true that people live more comfortably with fame when they are confident that it is something they have earned by their own merit and hard work over a period of time...
...princess had gone completely by the board, as the street value of a grainy shot of Diana with Al Fayed reached six figures. The stalking had become so bad that two weeks ago Diana disclosed that the idea of leaving Britain and its paparazzi had crossed her mind. "Any sane person would have left long ago," she told the French newspaper Le Monde. "But I cannot. I have my sons...
...owned. You started to believe her. Instead of adoring Diana, or pitying Diana, or disdaining Diana, you could be happy for her. She was in love with Dodi, happy, unnatural no longer. She was running from the cameras at full speed. You believed her when she said that "any sane person would have left (England) long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons...
Finally, we don't believe a word of this. (A black helicopter hovering unremarked over a crowded Union Square? I don't think so.) But Gibson blurs the line between lunacy and lucidity very funnily, Roberts is a woman who could drive any man sane, and some of the film's offhand observations about the life-styles of the poor and nutty are goofily persuasive (Jerry padlocks his refrigerator and keeps its contents in combination-locked canisters). Caught up in the movie's intricacies, we go along with it, momentarily distant kin to those people who cling desperately to some...
...income for more time, all working men and women can benefit from her suggestions to learn how to fail, say no to bosses and assignments, and separate who you are from what you do. Such prescriptions for redefining worth and success are not abundantly simple, but they are abundantly sane...