alicia-silverstone

Famous Person Falls Down!

mark · 09/09/05 11:01AM


Since it's Friday morning, we would've been well within our rights to present this photo of Alicia Silverstone falling down outside of the GQ Men of the Year Awards in London without commentary. Falling celebrities are intrinsically funny! That split second of terror frozen onto the face of someone famous as they come to grips with their powerlessness against something as elemental as gravity makes us feel somewhat better about our own relatively meaningless lives. (Or about our superior ability to get shitfaced in public and not bellyflop to the curb. Whatever.) But we've just developed a pet theory about why Silverstone's face is twisted into such a mask of horror: maybe, just maybe, in that split second before a team of handlers descended to break her fall, she had a chilling vision of the future. Click the picture to have a look at what we think she saw in that moment of freefall.