Some celebrities are only half insane.

[dangermousie]

My liking for Matt Damon just went up ten times. Apparently he just had a kid with his wife, but surprise surprise, they didn't seem to go to an obscure third world country. Or make news for practicing weird silent-brith rituals. And they named the kid Isabella which is a perfectly normal name and will not make the child become obsessed with the Civil War, reach for a thesaurus, or have a gender identity crisis (hi, Moses, Apple, Shilo and Suri. Have fun with the self-help books). You mean there is actually a celebrity out there that uses normal names? Wow. My world, it is shaken.

Comments

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Which goes to show that celebrities are normal people, they just think they aren't. You can quietly disappear and have your baby without third world countries declaring you a patron saint.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

You can quietly disappear and have your baby without third world countries declaring you a patron saint.

LOL. Precisely. Granted, Matt Damon and his non-famous wife aren't as media-hounded as Brangelina but come on. Quiet and no fuss is good. Being worth years of Namibia's tourism advertising by your craziness is also good but in an entirely different 'you amuse me through your insanity' way.

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

Huh. Don't forget the part about no media circus... I didn't even know Matt Damon and his wife were pregnant.

Much classier than some other celebrities in recent times. :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I didn't know it either.

What is wrong with Matt Damon! He missed a golden opportunity to get in the news. Should have insisted in the media that they would practice weird birthing rituals (ritual finger painting during birth; worshipping Catequil (http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/incan-mythology.php?deity=CATEQUIL&ds=N)) or state that they would have their baby in the pristine wilderness of Antarctica. Really, I despair...

[kabutar.livejournal.com]

Suri actually isn't all that bad. :P Er bit who names their kids APPLE? and Moses is just... um.

At least Britney named her kid Sean... oh well.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Suri apparently means not "rose" in Hebrew, as TC said, but something which is the equivalent of "get lost." Quite a name for a kid. Also, how do you pronounce it? People will always screw it up.

And good for Britney. Of course, with her unfortunate genetics, the sprog is doomed anyway :P

[ameya.livejournal.com]

I like the name Suri, myself. Apple makes me go O,o though .. Moses IS a name at least.. just an old school one!

[weissman.livejournal.com]

Pretty cool, when its our time my wife and I like Lillian for a girl and Michael for a boy
Bob

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Those are beautiful names!

[morwen_peredhil]

Isabella is a lovely name, and I didn't even know they were expecting a baby. Now that's the way to do it.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yup. But then tabloids would be out of business and we cannot have that, can we?

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

That's really some sort of miracle right there.

At least the other kids will have enough money to (probably) not get beaten up on a regular basis for their completely stupid names.

And if I hear one more word about the Brad and Angelina wonder kid.... With the amount of publicity this baby has gotten it had better turn out to cure cancer or something. And a very mean part of me hopes it turns out rather plain so I can stop hearing about the wonder of genetics.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oh, they'll get beaten up. And then their bodyguards will intervene.

The fuss over Brad and Angelina's kid is...bizarre. It's a baby. Not Baby Jesus, either. Enough with the craziness.

And a very mean part of me hopes it turns out rather plain so I can stop hearing about the wonder of genetics.

Well, it does have the scary lips...

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

*And* Damon campaigned in swing states for the Dems in 2004, just to make him even more fabulous. Good politics, good performances, cute, capable of giving his child a normal name and not going on some quasi-mystical trek to reincarnate L. Ron Hubbard or commune with the wild animals of the Serengeti while he and his wife have the damn kid...

Mind you, as someone above pointed out, given that Damon is married to a 'civilian' and has never been a big tabloid favourite even when he was single, it may be easier for them to live thier lives quietly than for a couple that is made up of two movie stars whose entire relationship seems to have been tracked by hte press. I kind of go back and forth on the whole Pitt/Jolie thing. On the one hand, I feel kind of sorry for them, and certainly for their kids (who didn't ask to get born into/adopted into a situation where they never have any privacy), but then they'll do something flaky and/or pretentious and I'll find myself deeply cynical. I mean, for people who supposedly want their privacy so much, they sure give a lot of press conferences! But it could be a lot worse. At least they're flaky, pretentious celebs who give a lot of money to charity, instead of a cult.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

The thing that I love about Damon is that I love some of his movies and performances and don't care for others. But that's what I think of, when I think of him: his roles. He doesn't have his personal life be better known than what he does for a living. I just know him for being an actor and I love that.

I mean, for people who supposedly want their privacy so much, they sure give a lot of press conferences!

ROFL. I bet they love being 'noble' But at least, flaky or not, money goes to good causes, you are right.

Btw, that icon? To die for.

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

Hee.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Indeed :)

[ameya.livejournal.com]

haha - actually i get dissapointed when i hear people name their kids "normal" names. I've never been a big fan of "normal" names though.. just my thing. Growing up i was obsessed with the idea of naming my future daughter "Avenue" LOL. I thought it was pretty. I then moved on to Sayley which i read in a book and liked... But now my favorites are Alia (like the preborn preistest in Dune) and Dharamdas (like the guy in devdas..& okay, i probably would not name my kid that.. but it *is* a name.. and its fun to say ;D lol) heh. And it would explain why i changed my own name to something not 8 other girls in my class was called...

I like Shilo and Suri.. Moses isn't my favorite but i dig that its unique nowadays. though Coco and Apple and Paris and Brooklyn are unique but i don't care for thoes at allll.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I like normal names. Not necessarily John and Jane etc, but you don't want the kid to be teased and all. A name might be pretty in abstraction but the kid will have to live with it. Shilo drives me nuts. It's a really really bloody and miserable Civil War battle. What kind of name is it to give a kid?

[mycenae.livejournal.com]

Oh, as if anything will ever be as bad as Moon Unit and Dwezil.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

That's true. That still remains the thing to beat!

[antiqueskies.livejournal.com]

Hahaha you made my night!

What about Pilot Inspektor, Jason Lee's kid? Poor kid.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

You are kidding. There is a kid named that? Wow. I am numb.

[muffinkath7.livejournal.com]

This is why I like Matt. He seems mostly normal. :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Sorry, distracted by icon!

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

Of course, ordinary people can mess up their kid's lives by poor naming as well. There is apparently this one poor local girl whose mother named her something that's supposed to be pronounced "Asholey" or something like that, but is actually spelled "Asshole". Which, really. Didn't anyone question her on that?

I'm not a big Matt Damon fan, but I do admire him for not being a public relations hog about his own child's birth. That's always struck me as something that should be private. I've always admired the people who protected their children from the public eye rather than shoving them in front of the spotlight.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Asshole? Wow. That beats everything. I do keep thinking about a very popular fiction heroine in a Russian book named Assol' and it sounds sweet and soft in Russian but in English? Wow.

[cosmicviolet.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know Matt Damon had a wife, so there you go. Isabella is a lovely name, too (I even kind of like Apple, but not Suri.) I just don't like how some celebrities use their kids and/or pets as fashion accessories. I feel terrible for Britney's kid, it's going to be so fucked up.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Britney's offspring is doomed. And not from being dropped on the head.