Publicity
Well, George O'Dowd, also known as Boy George, reported for duty this morning to perform five days of court ordered community service. He'll be picking up trash from the streets of New York. If he had done this when the judge first ordered him to, there likely would have been almost no attention paid whatsoever. Because he made it into an issue, he is now being followed around by the media who are cheerfully posting his pictures all over the web.
It took less than an hour for the former Culture Club frontman to get into a spat with the media.
"You think you're better than me?" he yelled. "Go home. Let me do my community service."
Boy George took to the streets of Manhattan as a Department of Sanitation worker wearing an orange vest, dark capri pants, shoes without socks, and without the wild makeup and androgynous style that made him so recognizable as the '80s icon who sang "Karma Chameleon" and "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?"
"This is supposed to be making me humble. Let me do this," he said. "I just want to do my job."
The singer, born George O'Dowd, was ordered to spend five days working for the Department of Sanitation after pleading guilty in March to falsely reporting a burglary at his lower Manhattan apartment. The officers who responded found cocaine instead.
Frankly, I rather doubt there are very many people who care what Boy George is doing these days. So, did he do this just to get his name in the papers again, or is he really so egotistical that he think he still matters? Earlier posts here and here.
By syn, Monday, 14 August , 2006 @ 9:38 am
Appropriate he is picking up the trash in the lower east side where from dusk til dawn the really ‘cool’ crowd like to trash even trash. Karma indeed. It’s going to be a good week.