Re CHELSEA HANDLER ("CHELSEA LATELY") & REESE WITHERSPOON: The REAL THING IS BETTER
So I'm at the CHELSEA HANDLER talk show shortly before Christmas 2010. Its called "Chelsea Lately" and it's my first time there. Unique setting for the show, you would never suspect they do a talk show in this warehouse on Olympic Ave in west Los Angeles. But there it is and there I was expecting to see Reese Witherspoon as the special interview guest.
As it turned out, they had pre-recorded Chelsea's interview with Reese (who, by the way, I saw receive a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame a few weeks prior; and seemed like a nice gal; she even brought her kids with her). Anyways, they showed us the tape of the interview or conversation between Chelsea & Reese and the one interaction that STANDS OUT in my mind, in retrospect is when Chelsea asked Reese about the "love scenes" she's been in, in recent movies.s
Reese responded, and then Chelsea said something like the following: "That's so nice. Its even better than sex in real life. No guilt...." ha ha. Of course, love scenes taped for tv & movies is not real love or sex . The closest thing to "real" is maybe they actually kiss in front of the camera. Anything else that happens is probably fully clothed under blankets.
The point is that Chelsea's comment highlights the FALSITY of Hollywood and the danger of making "fake life" better than "real life." Its a theological danger, actually. Jesus Christ came to earth as an example of the power of "incarnation" (I.e. "in the flesh", in this case meaning positively presenting one's self as human; in other cases "in the flesh" can mean negatively & harshly judgmental of others).
God wanted us to be positively IN THE FLESH, meaning genuine, authentic, actual interactions with others. This means life is sometimes messy. Peoples feelings get hurt. Physical pain happens, as well as physical pleasure: i.e. real sex & love between a real man & real woman in a real committed relationship . Sometimes "love hurts" but that's life. Jesus truly felt the pain on the cross. It wasn't simulated. We must keep trying to truly engage with one another despite the chance & probability of getting hurt. We cannot fall for pretend love, pretend sex, and call it "real" or "better" simply because it is a way to avoid getting hurt or hurting others.
JVK
