David Boles, Blogs » Celebrity Semiotic

Reflecting on the tapestry of human history, it is impossible to overlook the paramount influence religion has wielded in the formation of societies, civilizations, and… Continue reading → ...

https://bolesblogs.com/2023/11/06/yourself-is-enough/

Forty years ago, this September, when I was a teenaged movie critic for “Kidding Around” on KOLN/KGIN-TV in Lincoln, Nebraska, the movie “Ordinary People” was… Continue reading → Re...

https://bolesblogs.com/2020/05/13/rereviewing-ordinary-people-40-years-later/

The coronavirus, the rising threat of Covid-19, is nobody’s fault. Viruses are wild. Viruses happen. As long as humans keep eating animals, we will have… Continue reading → Politicizing a...

https://bolesblogs.com/2020/03/24/politicizing-a-pandemic-presidency/

There was a time, not too long ago, when you could have a career impersonating celebrities. You could make your way, pay your mortgage, live… Continue reading → The Age of Unimpressions

https://bolesblogs.com/2018/09/10/the-age-of-unimpressions/

There was a time in the monument of America — during the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s — when you could have a life, make… Continue reading → Reconstruing a Culture: A Reckoning for Retro TV

https://bolesblogs.com/2017/06/15/reconstruing-a-culture-a-reckoning-for-retro-tv/

The untimely death of child actress Erin Moran over the weekend — at age 56, her body was discovered in an Indiana trailer park —… Continue reading → Why We Own the Misery of Erin Moran...

https://bolesblogs.com/2017/04/24/why-we-own-the-misery-of-erin-moran/

The Hillary Clinton email scandal is not over. Not by a bit! In reality, it has yet to commence! Yes, the 2016 presidential election is… Continue reading → Why Hillary Clinton Has Cooked He...

https://bolesblogs.com/2016/08/03/why-hillary-clinton-has-cooked-herself-30000-times-over/

In the Modern Age of Entertainment, we have — so far — sustained Three Distinct Eras of performance preservation. The First Era was Film.  The… Continue reading → Three Eras of Preserv...

https://bolesblogs.com/2016/03/30/three-eras-of-preservation-and-the-scourge-of-magnetic-tape/

If you’re an author, or a publisher, or if you work in the entertainment field, getting your social media accounts Verified — or “socially proofed”… Continue reading → Beware of Soc...

https://bolesblogs.com/2016/01/13/beware-of-social-proofing-for-verified-accounts-on-facebook-and-twitter/

In my work as a script doctor at ScriptProfessor.com — I meet a lot of people with varying talent — the saddest stories belong to… Continue reading → Using Online Charity Auctions to Bu...

https://bolesblogs.com/2014/10/22/using-online-charity-auctions-to-buydown-broken-dreams/

It’s that time of year again — to lament the downfall and the displeasure in how the most recent incarnation of CBS’ Big Brother “reality”… Continue reading → Donny vs. Derrick: B...

https://bolesblogs.com/2014/08/11/donny-vs-derrick-big-brother-16-brands-your-morality/

Way back in 2001, I interviewed Tass Michos — Director of Photography for the “Death to Smoochy” movie starring Edward Norton and Robin Williams —… Continue reading → What Makes a N...

https://bolesblogs.com/2014/07/09/what-makes-a-neighborhood-who-creates-a-city/

The more time I spend on Twitter, the more confounded and confused I become as to the service’s purpose and merits. Is it a news… Continue reading → Twitter and the Verified Celebrity Con...

https://bolesblogs.com/2014/06/19/twitter-and-the-verified-celebrity-contra-culture/

Twitter wants to be your TV.  Sure, we know Twitter doesn’t broadcast events — yet — and so on its way into warming up the… Continue reading → Twitter Really Wants to Be Your TV

https://bolesblogs.com/2014/05/19/twitter-really-wants-to-be-your-tv/

Justin Bieber has been behaving badly lately, and we are left to imagine what’s gone wrong with the teenaged heartthrob, and why he’s so precipitously… Continue reading → Why Does Justi...

https://bolesblogs.com/2014/02/12/why-does-justin-bieber-want-to-be-a-thug/

There were two remarkable, maddening, things that happened over the weekend. Both events were related to fame and the failure of human consequence against the… Continue reading → Philip Sey...

https://bolesblogs.com/2014/02/03/philip-seymour-hoffman-dylan-farrow-and-the-consequence-of-fame/

Kanye West is one of our most unfortunate and disingenuous fame whores — worse even than his brittle fiancé and Baby Mama, Kim Kardashian — and… Continue reading → Kanye West Waves th...

https://bolesblogs.com/2013/11/06/kanye-west-waves-the-queer-flag/

What would you think of a mother who purposefully set out to make her 10-month-old baby girl cry — just so she could record the… Continue reading → Oh, Baby, Don’t You Cry: Unless Your ...

https://bolesblogs.com/2013/11/01/oh-baby-dont-you-cry-unless-your-mamma-makes-you-mew/

Growing up in the 70’s, subliminal advertising was everywhere, and it was always a fun challenge to look at the modern advertising of the day… Continue reading → Advertising Explicit Bodi...

https://bolesblogs.com/2013/10/11/advertising-explicit-bodily-functions-in-people-magazine/

Elissa Reilly Slater was evicted from the Big Brother 15 house last night, effectively ending her chance to win half a million dollars, but she… Continue reading → Elissa Reilly Slater Wins...

https://bolesblogs.com/2013/09/06/elissa-reilly-slater-wins-big-brother-15/