cyber-jack Wrote:That's fine, I didn't really expect you to. If everyone agreed on everything the world would be a pretty drab place.
That said, do you really believe that her "coming out" party had nothing at all to do with her poor ratings at the time. Or that she did not blatently use her alternate lifestyle as a promotional gimmick?
All acceptance or disapproval of said lifestyle put aside, its awful hard to believe she didn't sieze an opportunity to further a career that wasn't really moving forward on its own.
That the gimmick didn't necessarily work and only prolonged the cancelling of her show by a few episodes is moot, because she did propel herself higher into the public's awareness, but I wonder where she would be had she not employed the tactic? Would she have her own talk show today? I really doubt it.
I don't necessarily think she used her coming out as a tactic, but the media seized on it, went to town with it, gave her oodles of publicity about it, so why not use all that?
At any rate, after her show was cancelled, Ellen Degeneres more or less disappeared for a while. She did an HBO special and maybe a movie, but I can't recall anything else.
Until her talk show, which is delightful, funny and the best thing on morning television. It's great for the whole family, too, despite what you may think about her. She does not flaunt anything.
So, to sum up, while her coming out may have aided her for a bit when she did it, it did nothing to further her career. She did that all on her own. And it took her a while to come back from the cancellation of her show. In other words, her career in Hollywood now is nothing out of the ordinary, for someone who had a successful series, got cancelled and had to find a way back.