Digital Ink Los Angeles

On the turn from a profile of how celebrity awe can put someone in harm’s way — see ESPN‘s Erin Andrews — Digital Ink presents Susan Boyle and her struggles with fame.

Always on the bleeding edge, NBC‘s Today Show reporter Meredith Vieira interviewed Susan Boyle this morning to discuss her brief-lived turn in the “Britain’s Got Talent” spotlight.

Susan Boyle described her play with the fame-fire as being hit with something “like a giant demolition ball.” Bam! Susan’s lost her mind.

David Bowie had a great song from his Young Americans album — co-written and recorded with a famous Beatle, John Lennon — called FAME.

Fame, (fame) what you like is in the limo
Fame, (fame) what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, (fame) what you need you have to borrow
Fame (fame)

Check out hottie judge Amanda Holden cooing and crying over Ms. Boyle’s now-famous rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables:

Cue the eerie horror music, because here’s another summer film that’s designed to make viewers uncomfortable in their seats. For those who’ve seen Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science-fiction masterpiece, 2001: Space Odyssey, the psychological trauma of outer-space hysteria is something witnessed and understood.

Profound loneliness is a downside to most genuinely inventive endeavors, and outer-space exploration presents the penultimate in insular depression — three years of solo livelihood, without benefit of social interaction with other human beings, is a large gamble to make.

In Sony Picture‘s 2009 release, Moon, the main character is a lunar worker, Sam Bell, and he’s been sent to the moon on a three-year expedition to cultivate and mine resources for the Earth’s new “alternative, clean-energy” programs. His only friend is the HAL-like computer voice, played by Kevin Spacey.

What happens when experiences have no reflection, when human psyche becomes muddled in pathos and doubt? The writer and director of Moon, Duncan Jones, asks these questions and many more.

View the movie trailer here:

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