FAME

Have this nagging idea about a tv series/book thing, about someone trying to get famous (Yes,I know there's a famous musical called Fame) but the series/book would have pretty dark undertones.

Two ideas that I've been fooling around with are an opening passage or piece of dialogue and an idea I had about a Comedian who kills people in order to tell tasteless jokes about their deaths.

The Opening passage/dialogue piece would go something like this

"Andy Warhol once said that everyone would be famous for 15 minutes but he didn't tell everyone what they would be famous for. I guess you don't really have a say in the matter, I mean what is it that your going to become famous for? Are you gonna be the lead singer of a band or write a children's book about a dog who can travel through time? Everyone could live with that kind of fame. I always wonder how it's going to strike me, am I gonna end up winning an Oscar? Or I am gonna get the kind of fame no-one wants, like being one of 10 poor barstards killed in an aircrash or ending up like one of those sad cunts who find a potato shaped like Mary Magdalen or do I end up living in a town with 100 people who have the share the same fucking name or some shit like that. Everyone was going to be famous at least for 15 minutes but you can be famous for walking around Sainsbury's with a shotgun, at this point in time that's not the kind of fame I wanted"

I also have amateur porn in my mind...I think there's something hilarious about amateur porn.

I would take some themes from Alain De Button's 'Status Anxiety' I think there are some excellent themes to be discussed within that work.

I would use it as an opportunity to talk about how our desire for fame is really our desire for love and attention.

I would talk about social evolution how people once known as 'unfortunates' are now known as 'tramps' or 'the homeless'