December 11, 2008, - 1:55 pm
6 Million Degrees of Diana Separation Anxiety
By Debbie Schlussel
If you’re like me, you’re sick and tired of hearing about this rotted corpse of a high school drop-out once known as Princess Diana. The only achievement of this woman was marrying up well. If you’re like me, you were tired of hearing about her death, about five minutes into the non-stop coverage of it in 1997.
But some people–primarily women who love this stuff–just won’t give it up. Get over it, already.
Given my views on this, you can imagine my laughter when I read this in my morning Detroit Free Press:
Jack and Robin Firestone, the only Americans who witnessed the fatal car crash of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed in the Paris tunnel, will be at Borders in Dearborn at 6 tonight for a promo appearance for their book “Chasing Diana.” The Firestones’ book is about their 11-year journey since the vacation that changed their lives.
Sick of This, Sick ‘o Them . . .
Everybody has to earn a living somehow, but dude, their accomplishment is . . . being the only Americans who saw a car crash in France 11 years ago? Hello . . .?
What’s even more amazing is that this questionable status is somehow enough to carry this couple for eleven years, to the point where they are still being brought by national book chains to major cities for a book tour.
What the heck do you say in a book when you saw like two seconds of something? This would be my book in that case:
Page One. Hello, the car crashed. She died. The end. Then, like 200 blank pages to follow, to make it look good on Ron Burgundy’s book shelf.
Do you really think this couple added anything beyond that? In case you were wondering, here’s the “insight” these people give unto our world:
“The first thing I noticed were lights bouncing off the tunnel walls as we entered and afterwards, I noticed these dark formal looking cars very conspicuously parked,” said Robin Firestone, author.
In their book, “Chasing Diana,” the Firestones talk about seeing the soon to be deceased princess in the back of the car, with a man who turned out to be Dodi Al Fayed, heir to the Harrods store empire.
“I said to my husband and my son, ‘Oh my God there’s a woman in the car, a blond haired woman in the car, and looks like she must be dead. My God, what are they doing,” said Robin.
The Firestones want their book to become part of the record, to fill in the gaps and to raise some very important questions.
Um, “gaps”? I’m more interested in filling in the gap between “Breakin'” and “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo.” Talk about raising some very important questions.
Jack and Robin talked about their experience during a book signing at the Power Plant Barnes & Noble. It’s a story whose latest chapter unfolds with the couple testifying before the royal courts of justice.
“We actually give a birds-eye view. You are there to feel to what it was like in that tunnel. And we hope, that as people read the story they’ll realize there’s a lot more to this story,” said Jack Firestone, author.
Um, actually there really isn’t much to the story. High school drop-out who married well, got divorced and slept around. Car crashed. She died. End of story.
Cannot believe the extent of this Diana-worship garbage and how it still goes on. Incredible.
She wasn’t that great alive. She died. Eleven Years Ago. Move on. Get a life.
The Firestones are parasites.
The end.
kaps on December 11, 2008 at 3:17 pm