Celebrity Crushes?

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My celebrity crush died. :’( (Alan Rickman)

I think crushes are fine and healthy! My husband and I often get celebrity crushes and…frankly…we share them with each other!! We’re confident enough that doing so helps us bond and pray for each other. It’s amazing the intimacy that comes from a marriage where you can share these things! It helps me see what my husband idealizes, and helps him see what I do as well.
 
Streampromise said:
What do you mean? If you dont mind explaining.
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There was a group of Harry Potter fangirls who wanted to marry Professor Snape and aparently one of them went so far as to post wedding pictures and claimed she had married him on the “astral plane”.
The group gained a bit of notoriety for being a bunch of kooks.
 
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Yes!!

Weirdly he was my last and only real enduring one. I never made new ones after I got married although I do have “passing fancies” as my husband and I laugh about them. XD
 
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im 16! and sadly i wont ever meet them bc they live in a whole other country 😦
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Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know many of my favs. Some of them live in other countries as well. So yes, if they come to your country, meeting them can happen. You need to remember tho that they are people like everyone else who are fortunate enough to be able to make their living using the gifts God gave them.
 
When I was a teenager, the only way to learn about actors/singers/etc. was through teen magazines and the rare television interview (usually on shows like Mike Douglas, Dick Cavett, etc., which were often hard to watch because they came on around 4 in the afternoon, and often, teens were still at school for an after-school activity, or over at a friend’s house, or even (me!) walking home from school. It’s just hard to believe that we grew up without VCRs, TiVo, etc.!

But with the rise of social media, I think it’s easier to learn a more truthful picture of our celeb crushes’ real lives.

My favorite actor has been on Twitter almost from the beginning, and many of his family members, friends, and co-workers chime in on his twitter account. He also posts photos and videos on Instagram–so sweet to see pictures of him and his wife, kids, etc. His WIFE is often on his Twitterfeed, and that’s awesome.

This year, he has been reading the Bible through, and at least once a week, he has given us an update on what he has read. Last night, he posted that he had finished the entire Bible!

And he often posts pictures of himself and various family members at his church and Mass.

He also posts about his other interests, which include a partnership in a Harley-Davidson store, adopting older dogs and cats, FAMILY activities, and history.

Yes, it could all be a fake, but seeing something from him almost every day, especially when much of his tweets happen at 4 a.m. (he gets up early to work out) makes it a lot harder for him to have a PR agent create a false image.

I know this is true for lots of celebs and public figures–they can’t hide anymore behind a movie magazine gossip columnist who puts a certain “spin” on all his/her articles.

Our President has made extensive use of Twitter–some would say to his detriment, but I think it’s good that we are able to have access to him 24/7. It’s the way people communicate at this time in history, and it’s good that the President has grasped this method. I feel that we are getting the honest truth about him from twitter rather than a fake image in a newspaper or a TV interview.

I don’t have a twitter account or any social media account–the only “social media” I do is a few computer forums, which are such ancient technology! But I like them because I’m not limited to a few characters, and because I do not own nor wish to own an i-Phone.
 
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My teen celeb crush was…and still is!..Jonathan Frid, the actor who portrayed the vampire Barnabas Collins on the TV soap opera Dark Shadows.

Dark Shadows is STILL on television after 50 years! In fact, it has ALWAYS been on television somewhere for the past 50 years–the show will not die!

My husband and I have been watching it on ME-TV in our city. It comes on at 11:00 p.m., so usually we aren’t up. But we TiVo it, and it’s so much fun to watch. Amazingly, the show stands up to time well.

For those who don’t know—Dark Shadows was a soap opera that had a “gothic” feel–and its ratings were really low. The show was cancelled, and the producer, Dan Curtis, decided to go wild in the last six weeks of the show. He asked his writers to create a vampire, and hired Jonathan Frid to play the part of Barnabas Collins.

Jonathan Frid, who was an unknown actor who had done tons of repertory theater as well as a lot of Shakespeare (it pays the light bills!), had always played “evil” characters with a heart–he was convinced that everyone has some spark of “good” in them, and so he decided to play Barnabas with a streak of humanity and goodness–a “reluctant vampire.” The writers went along with his characterization and wrote wonderful scripts that demonstrated his disgust with his vampire nature and his remorse whenever he had to bite or kill someone.

I’ve heard many versions of the story, but the one I’ve heard Mr. Frid share is that a few weeks after he had been on the show, Dan Curtis brought a large sack of mail (regular mail in envelopes!) to Mr. Frid, who asked what it was. Mr. Curtis told him it was fan mail–thousands of letters. The show’s audience was increasing exponentially, and the show had been renewed by ABC.

Barnabas Collins saved the show!

From then on, Jonathan Frid’s celebrity grew hugely–he was mobbed wherever he went. It was strange looking back–he was 42 years old at that time–and teens (including me and many of my friends!) adored him!

The teen magazines were filled with pictures and articles about him (probably mainly fake), and he made appearances all over the country, including at the White House for a Halloween party for underprivileged children (sponsored by the Nixon sisters!).

Meanwhile, other Dark Shadows actors were also gaining popularity with teens, including the venerable older actress, Joan Bennett (from a famous Hollywood family–she was one of the leading contenders for the role of Scarlett O Hara in Gone with the Wind).

One of those actors, David Selby, is still alive and very active in his beloved West Virginia. He was on Dynasty for years.

Another actor, John Karlen, won three Emmy nominations and eventually the Emmy for his portrayal of Harvey Lacy on Cagney and Lacy.

It was a wonderful time to be a teen when a show like Dark Shadows was popular. It was also a terrible time to be a teen, as the Viet Nam war was raging and all of us dreaded seeing our boy friends drafted. I think that’s the main reason Dark Shadows was so popular–it gave us all, including our parents (my mother loved the show) a chance to “escape” from a very fearful world.
 
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I assume she means that even when you’re married, you’re still going to meet other people out in the world you find attractive (obviously you don’t act on it or anything.)

Perfectly normal in my mind.

OP, it’s fine and probably a normal stage of adolescent development. Just remember not to take it too far and that ultimately you need to be learning how to have relationships with your peers.
 
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My emerging Society of Apostolic Life with contemplative branch has a ministry that prays for celebs. We send out a prayer list weekly to the Holy Hour for Hollywood.
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This is a very nice thing to do. In recent years I’ve been happy to be able to pray for many of the celeb actors and musicians whose work I liked, and yeah when I was a teenager I had a huge crush on several of them too. I particularly pray for them when they pass away.

I generally don’t strive to meet my favorite celebs in real life . It has happened a few times, but I think it’s important to maintain boundaries, both for me and for the person. I see too many people - and by that I mean grown, lonely adults, not teenagers or even early 20s fans, but older people - who believe they actually have a big personal connection/ friendship with Joe Celebrity because they chatted backstage a couple of times. I also learned when I was young that a lot of celebs one might meet were looking for sexual hookups and were not too interested in being friends apart from that.
 
My wife knows who my celeb crushes are. She keeps letting me know every time one of them comes back on the market. I wonder if she’s trying to tell me something? 🤣 😮
 
Praying for them goes back a long way with me. I found it more productive than sending sappy letters. I was also haunted by the bible verses regarding having to give an accounting, and having idols.

Presently, I make notes of which celebs pass on from monitoring the Bing feed during the week. The Holy Hour for Hollywood is on Friday afternoon at Family Theater Productions in Hollywood.

I start the post, which goes to all of our Yahoo groups, except the Religious Habit, as being from our CAMM-Genesian Ministry, then go into the prayer: “We pray for the repose of the souls of all celebs whose bodies have died since our last posting, including” then give the list. We close with “May their souls, and all of the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.”

Right now, our Genesian Ministry has just me and one other. Should there be interest, we will be open to the Spirit’s foundation of a new community dedicated to St. Genesius.
 
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Cloisters said:
The Holy Hour for Hollywood is on Friday afternoon at Family Theater Productions in Hollywood.
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That’s Father Peyton’s group, right? I love their rosary videos with him and the films of Jesus and Mary and the apostles. I especially like their version of “Proclamation of the Kingdom” as I had trouble figuring out imagery for that mystery initially. I hope he becomes a saint.
 
Oh Ive heard of them! Are you talking about the Snapewives created a spirit of him through channeling?
 
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Haha quite right.
But this was a long time ago, probably about 10 year (which is ancient in Internet-days)
 
The irony of my celebrity crushes are that I’m attracted to their faithfulness and gentlemenliness. They are the type that would never leave their spouse for a fan crush no matter what! ie. Kevin Kline and Hugh Jackman
 
Streampromise,

I YouTube’d BTS and heard a little of RM’s speech, and discovered it is the group behind this whole “Love Yourself” message. So, in short, I would say that I think ‘celebrity crushes’ or any sort of crush can be innocent, fun, joyful, and cool with God (if I can put it that way), but be careful how it can affect you. RM, who delivered the speech, claimed that “their message” of “Love Yourself” positively impacted the lives of so many of their fans. Shouldn’t he be glorifying the Gospel message and not this other message? “Love Yourself” is a good message, but perhaps incomplete to the full glory of the Gospel and God’s love for us.

Just a couple thoughts from a big fan of the boy-band One Direction. 😉 I don’t mean to demean or anything by any stretch, just a few thoughts about how the “message” of a crush (lyrics, values, etc.) could possibly affect us.

Thanks for the fun/cool question. Let me know if you have any other questions or thoughts about what I said. 🙂 All glory to God, who first loves and us and helps us to love others sacrifically as a means of loving ourselves. (And from time to time loving ourselves so that we have something to give, too.)
 
Okay thank you for the answer! And I agree, I wished he talked about faith and stuff, but its still a good message! Also RM is known as an atheist but I pray that every night he would see Gods light <3. I like their music because they help me calm down, rather than most western rap talking about drugs and such.
 
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