And the guy says to me — the Nightline guy — I didn’t get the guy’s name. Granted, I haven’t been feeling real well and it was a long day of interviews. But he said to me, “If we didn’t cover cultural things, we wouldn’t be covering you and The Mist, and promoting the movie.” And I’m like, “Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan aren’t cultural.” They aren’t political. They’re economic only in the mildest sense of the word. In fact, if I had to pick somebody, some celebrity who has had some impact this year, some sort of echo in the larger American life, I would say Hannah Montana. That whole issue of online ticket sales and scalping fascinates me. There are [legitimate] issues there about the Internet, so that actually does seem to have some cultural significance. But Britney? Britney Spears is just trailer trash. That’s all. I mean, I don’t mean to be pejorative. But you observe her behavior for the past five years and you say, “Here’s a lady who can’t take care of her kids, she can’t take care of herself, she has no retirement fund, everything that she gets runs right through her hands.” And yet, you know and I know that if you go to those sites that tell you what the most blogged-about things on the Internet are, it’s Britney, it’s Lindsay. So I think it would be terrific [to have them as TIME Persons of the Year]. There would be such a scream from the American reading public, sure. But at the same time, it’s time for somebody to discuss the difference between real news and fake news.”

Total hottie Stephen King, to Time magazine.

5 Responses to “Quotables”

1. Jenz says:

   November 27, 2007 at 8:52 am

   Beetz, why do you put the two great loves of my life on today’s front page? Stephen King is a geeeenyousss. And I love him. A little bit more than Chris Meloni. Even though he’s not as hot.

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2. Just Saying says:

   November 27, 2007 at 9:12 am

   This is funny. Steven King says Britney is just trailer trash-but not in a perjorative way! He’s pure genius and I hope this gives him an idea for his new novel.

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3. Clementines says:

   November 27, 2007 at 9:43 am

   He’s a dirt bag of nasty imaginations.

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4. kirstie says:

   November 27, 2007 at 12:48 pm

   stephen is the man. he is incredible.

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5. mambaX says:

   November 27, 2007 at 5:44 pm

   oh Maine lobsters and wicked clowns, I love the guy

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