MFHTDWF #1

Principle: Don’t care what people think. Really don’t care. Don’t just pretend not to care – actually don’t.

If you can do that, you’re exempt from the remainder of MFHTDWF, and congratulations. You’re a crazy, possibly sociopathic famous person bound to entertain us all with your soap-opera-like hijinks for years to come.

And since you don’t care who you offend or what the rest of us stand for, you won’t bore us by speaking reasonably on talk shows while subtly plugging your next “project,” or ask other people’s opinions when all we want to know is what you think, anyway. We’ll get sick of you occasionally, but that won’t bother you because you genuinely don’t care. And you’ll always resurface in the public eye, because we are all genuinely fascinated by people who are genuinely indifferent to us.

Besides, having the financial capability to follow through on all your harebrained schemes means you’ll likely keep us entertained with your failures, your bizarre successes, or both.

Examples of famous people who succeed at this principle: ??? [Edit: Charlie Sheen, circa 3/2011]

Examples of famous people who follow the principle, but who we still dislike: Carrot Top, Ex-Pres. G. W. Bush

Examples of famous people who fail at this principle: Almost all of them, including Sharon Stone and all stand-up comedians