Skip to main content

Has Meghan's moment passed?

I was out to dinner with an acquaintance this past weekend, a woman in her 20s visiting from the USA.

We spoke about the various events in the news, and when a celebrity name came up in the conversation, she said, "I just don't care about celebrities any more."

Speaking of celebrities - or would-be celebrities - it's a tough time to be Meghan Markle, whom according to a hopeful headline in today's Daily Mail, is the most talked about woman in the world.


A devalued currency

Meg doesn't have much to sell besides fame, but that currency has suddenly been sharply devalued.

Many people are wrapped up in political topics, and many are also struggling with their household budgets or their health during COVID times.

Does anyone care about a woman who doesn't seem to accomplish much, her husband who definitely doesn't accomplish much, and their child who may or may not exist?


Three books on the way

There are apparently three books about Meghan on the way - one by Lady Colin Campbell that will be published very soon, one by Omid Scobie (written with Harry and Meghan's input) due in August and a newly-announced one by Sunday Times writer Sean Smith set for publication in November. 

A separate book about the feud between Harry and William, due for release in October, will inevitably touch on the Meghan drama.

But the world is moving on quickly. Will there still be an audience for these books by the time they're published?

The Mulroneys are Markled

Ben Mulroney is "stepping down" (was terminated from?) a job on Canadian television, supposedly due to his wife's feud with a Black influencer. 

Based on his short "struggle session" video, Ben seems insufferable, but in general I don't think it's fair for people to be punished for what their spouses get up to. 

Perhaps Ben has some other incident in his background that we haven't been privy to, or maybe CTV wanted to make a change for other reasons and this was a good excuse.

Meghan's failure to stand up for either of the Mulroneys won't benefit her in the long run, however. 

She appears to be quickly running out of friends.


Comments

MelindaTaylor said…
Meghan is listed as a graduate in their 2003 program but with a B.S. in Communications not Theater. NU didn't even offer IR as a major when she went there. Notice she always says she "majored in...blah blah" never "I have a degree in..."
June 30, 2020 at 1:03 PM
lizzie said…
@MelindaTaylor wrote:

"Meghan is listed as a graduate in their 2003 program but with a B.S. in Communications not Theater."

But Theater is in the School of Communication. All Northwestern Theater majors earn either a BS or a BA in Communication. So that can't be held against M.

According to the catalog:

"The Departments of Communication Studies, Perfor­mance Studies, Radio/Television/Film, and Theatre (includ­ing dance) [also] offer the bachelor of arts in communi­cation. The requirements for this degree are identical to the requirements for the bachelor of science in com­munication with the addition of a foreign language requirement." 
https://catalogs.northwestern.edu/undergraduate/communication/#requirementstext

The International Relations "major" poffered by Northwestern is not a stand-alone major. But it is an adjunct major any student can earn. https://www.internationalstudies.northwestern.edu/undergraduate/degree-requirements/adjunct-major.html

But in its catalog Northwestern calls it a major at times.

"The major in International Studies is a gateway to the study of global affairs in Weinberg College. Its mission is to encourage and support student education and scholarship in international affairs and it is open to all Weinberg students and to students from across the university."
June 30, 2020 at 4:55 PM
Oldest Older 1201 – 1202 of 1202
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Quiet Interlude

 Not much appears to be going on. Living Legends came and went without fanfare ... what's the next event?   Super Bowl - Sunday February 11th?  Oscar's - March 10th?   In the mean time, some things are still rolling along in various starts and stops like Samantha's law suit. Or tax season is about to begin in the US.  The IRS just never goes away.  Nor do bills (utility, cable, mortgage, food, cars, security, landscape people, cleaning people, koi person and so on).  There's always another one.  Elsewhere others just continue to glide forward without a real hint of being disrupted by some news out of California.   That would be the new King and Queen or the Prince/Princess of Wales.   Yes there are health risks which seemed to come out of nowhere.  But.  The difference is that these people are calmly living their lives with minimal drama.  
763 comments
Read more

As Time Passes and We Get Older

 I started thinking about how time passes when reading some of the articles about the birthday.  It was interesting to think about it from the different points of view.  Besides, it kind of fits as a follow up the last post (the whole saga of can the two brothers reunite). So there is the requisite article about how he will be getting all kinds of money willed to him from his great-grandmother.  There were stories about Princess Anne as trustee (and not allowing earliest access to it all).  Whether or not any or all of this is true (there was money for him and/or other kids) has been debated with claims she actually died owing money with the Queen paying the debts to avoid scandal.  Don't know but I seem to remember that royal estates are shrouded from the public so we may not (ever) know. However, strange things like assisting in a book after repeated denials have popped up in legal papers so nothing is ever really predicable.   We are also seein...
281 comments
Read more

The Opening Act of New Adventures in Retail

 I keep thinking things will settle down to the lazy days of spring where the weather is gorgeous and there is a certain sense of peacefulness.  New flowers are coming out. increasing daylight so people can be outside/play and thinking gardening thoughts.  And life is quiet.  Calm. And then something happens like a comet shooting across the sky.  (Out of nowhere it arrives and then leaves almost as quickly.)   An update to a law suit.  Video of the website is released (but doesn't actually promote any specific product which can be purchased from the website).  A delay and then jam is given out (but to whom and possible more importantly - who did not make the list?).  Trophies almost fall (oops).  Information slips out like when the official date of beginning USA residency.  (now, isn't that interesting?) With them, it's always something in play or simmering just below the surface.  The diversity of the endeavors is really ...
657 comments
Read more