Natalie Portman, this is your lifecast
Pixie-perfect actress Natalie Portman is hunting for funding in Silicon Valley. Her project: A continuous video feed of her personal and professional life, streamed live to the Web.
Will this be a lifecast in the vein of Justin.tv? Natalie with a minicam strapped to her head? Not a big departure from her Garden State headgear. But still. Not something you expect from the Harvard actress known, in comparison to more vacuous pop starlets, as a discreet personality.
Whatevs. Call this business plan Cam-a-lot: A shiny, new, superpublic lifestyle. Or: Think EdTV meets The Real World, but with a 1st person twist -- Natalie will be the star of the show, but rarely actually in the show. We'll see her life from her perspective, her POV, but our opinions are formed by the reactions of others, the faces that appear in the camera. Like in Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days, or Spike Jonze's Malcovich, you become Natalie. It's an exercise in narcissism. It's realism ad nauseum. It's so meta it hurts. And we'll be there with her: All. The. Time.
Maybe this isn't fair. She hasn't even announced the project, and who knows whether it'll ever come to light. But just wait till Paris hears about this idea. Welcome to the new fame, the arms race to ubiquity.
