Gold and Beautiful

By now everyone knows about Ricky Gervais and his smart*** comments at the Golden Globe awards. The clips have been aired on all sorts of news channels over and over and over again. At first I thought what's all the fuss about?? These celebrities need to be good sports and learn to laugh at themselves. You know? Don't take yourself so seriously.... But obviously, easier said than done. I am sure if I was in a similar scenario I would have hated it. Now, I have to confess that I like Ricky Gervais and I am a huge Kathy Griffin fan. And for anyone who has seen her shows, knows that she is the queen of making fun of celebrities (maybe Joan Rivers is the queen.... at least she is senior :-)). So, I thoroughly enjoy Kathy Griffin's shows (so much so that I spent a quite a few $$ to watch her live at Fox theater when she was performing in Atlanta)... But when I thought more about this whole episode I realized that there was something not so great about this. Making fun of celebr

" In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. " -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Having grown up in a cosmopolitan city and a diverse country like India, I had always wondered why some people were narrow-minded. I remember my baby-sitter's daughter complaining to some one that she was B.A.L.L.B, but couldn't find a job because of all the South Indians coming to Bombay and speaking in English (yell, yemmm, etc..). Even at 5 years old the solution seemed very straight forward to me. Learn English!! She sat at home for quite a few years until she got married. I never remember her trying to learn English, or even looking for a job. I remember her taking me and my sister to watch movies in the afternoon though!!! Today's holiday reminds me of two things: a movie, American History X and a book by one of my favorite fiction authors, John Grisham, titled "The Chamber" (I am sure there is a movie on this book too!!) Both t