He does! He always looks so comical to me, playing the piano with those stubby little fingers. And yet the music he plays is beautiful. Anyway, just felt the need to express my opinion, which unlike vomitbunny, is always highly intelligent and correct 
Heather
Actually, Elton is mostly right, though a celeb should know better than to give in to such urges.
The media, especially the sort that covers pop concerts and the like, really are vile pigs - thatās true all over the world. Add in the cultural differences in asia and being mobbed takes on a whole new meaning.
I can tell you from personal experience that being anywhere near a mob in much of Asia, let alone the target of the mob, is not a pleasant experience for any westerner.
I remember flying out of Kuala Lumpur Malaysia - the plane to Singapore was broken and they were shuffling people onto the limited number of remaining flights. Of course, we all had connections to make in Singapore. Myself and the three or four other westerners stood bemused as everyone else mobbed the counter, waving their tickets in the air, shoving each other out of the way to push to the front, and shouting out their connections. In any western airport they would have been calling for the riot police and everybody would have been maced.
After a few minutes of getting shuffled steadily backward I realized that I was either going to join the fray or end up spending another night in KL or Singapore - so I jumped in waving my ticket and yelling louder than any of them. I was much taller and stronger than any of them so I regained my place up front and got my flight out. 
Perhaps a little public stir now and again can actually help a career along by keeping the person in the public eye?
However, reporters do sometimes go too far. It may simply be they were in his space, in his face, and he just suddenly found himself angry. Celebs are people, too: they get angry, they get tired, and sometimes they make bad choices.
āJames
And letās be frank (or ginger) and admit that his was not a particularly violent outburstā¦ I mean he called them āpigsāā¦ here they would have been much more likely dubbed something far moreā¦ umā¦ ācolorfulāā¦ and more closely related to a less respected portion of the anatomy.
And people wonder why movies like āPapparaziā are being made. :roll:
Much more effective than yelling SWINE! But Eltonās right, VILE PIG! works best.
My first reaction was to say āwho?ā
Then I googled the name, and discovered she is some sort of cook, right?
Thatās stardom maybe, but not International A-list for the past 30-something years stardom.
It would be hard for Elton to be in the public eye that long and not get caught in a bad mood a few times. At least he still has all his own hair*.
*in a box under the bed.
Some of us are not ones to pass up a good word when it fits to a tee. I think of it as upholding tradition. I also use āgroovyā, āthreadsā, and āchortleā, among others.
Maybe itās more like upholding atavism.
Has anyone ever sat through a talk show interview with Sir Elton some time in, say, the last ten years? He goes on, and on, and on, and on about how giving up drugs and alcohol gave him his life back.
After a few interviews I realised that the life he retrieved was one in which he goes on endlessly telling people how giving up alcohol and drugs gave him his life back. :roll:
the atavistic avatar
I think Martha does too - unless she shaves.
Oh! Scary thought.
This reminds me of Thurberās The Bear Who Let It Alone.
Exactly right. Someone should give Reg Dwight that link.
Given more time, I am sure, Reggie will move on to other things to talk about. It isnāt uncommon for former addicts to talk incessantly about the virtues of being ācleanāā¦it is sort of a self affirmation. Take reformed smokers, for example, theyāre easily ten times more vocal about non smoking than those who have never taken a puff off a cigarette.
I hope so Joseph, but as a reformed smoker myself (who failed many times before finally making it) I tend not to regard people as really over it until theyāve stopped being obsessive about their reformation. I might be wrong, but I think itās over ten years for Elton John now. I know his excesses would have dwarfed mine and those of others I know, and I know that life is a very personal journey for each of us, but I think Iām right to be a bit suspicious.
My mother, sometimes saintedā¦, has been smoke free for nearly twenty yearsā¦but she still gets downright nasty preaching to smokers. I am embarrassed to be in her company when she gets on a roll. I guess some folks get over it, some take forever, some get worse. Depends on your personal make-up I suppose.
Iām sure youāre right about that Josephāsome converts are preachy, some arenāt. But what bothered me about Elton was not the preachiness, Iām not even sure that he was preachy, but rather the fact that he seemed to have no other topic of conversation. I suppose I suspect that the real addiction is to self-absorbtion and that the anti-social aspect of that is still with us, even if the self-destuctive part is gone. If heād condemned drink and drugs and told us about all the fun things he was now doing I would have been very pleased for him.
I see your point. I guess it is a matter of ādifferent strokes for different folksā. I am glad that a man as talented as he, is nolonger on the junk. And he still seems to be very productive music wise.
I have to wonder what kind of ex-smoker I will be when I choke my last butt. Hopefully Iāll be like my dad, who simply said one thing: āā¦those damned thingsāll kill yaā.ā, and that was it. Not a peep out of him on the matter since.
That someone would not know who Martha Stewart is makes me sad. It also suggests to me that they have never been inside a K-mart.
Thereās also the possibility that the āreformeeā simply feels very strongly about helping others get the heck out of the clutches of the evil thing (choose your poison), because they know just exactly how really hard it is to do, and they know exactly how much of their own lives they wasted on it, ā¦ they wish someone had been able to get their attention on it earlier, and wonāt stand for the same lame excuses, denial and deflection that they recognize so well because they used to use them too.
I have no automatic disdain for the āpreachy reformedāā¦ guess I can see their point, and they ususally arenāt focused on reforming me, except religiously ā¦ nowā¦ thatās a whole 'nother tune.