In what other sport or branch of entertainment is a star required to be a posterboy for middleclass morality? If Tiger were a movie actor or a rock star or a footballer we'd shrug at these revelations.
Positively correct! Perhaps it is the disappointment. We all thought of him as squeeky-clean, compared to those other groups you mentioned - the violent contact sports and the bohemian/artist lifestyle. However, I do think that the media ought to back out of this, probably should have stayed out of it in the first place. When I was a child, the singer Frank Sinatra and the actress Ava Gardner had a torrid affair while he was still married to first wife Nancy. The media grabbed onto the news and it was in headlines for weeks (or so it seemed to a small child). Parents said on one occasion, "We are sick to death of Frankie and Ava." I remember seeing the news on TV, I think, or maybe it was movie newsreels, Ava hiding behind sunglasses. The media blitz lasted long enough to make a deep impression on a young child.
Yep, that was another one, although by then Liz was famous for being much-married. The one that got people's hackles up was when Liz acted the homewrecker with Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. When she dumped Eddie for Burton lots of people cheered saying it served Fisher right. Egad! I just read this over, and realized that I'm kind of an "old biddy" myself, who enjoys these bits of hollywood gossip. No, I used to enjoy them a lot more than I do now. You get tired of the same old, same old...
Most of the time all we know is what the PR people want us to know. That's part of our fascination with the Tiger story. It's a rare example of a celebrity scandal that isn't being micro-managed every step of the way.
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Date: 2009-12-14 05:14 pm (UTC)Perhaps it is the disappointment. We all thought of him as squeeky-clean, compared to those other groups you mentioned - the violent contact sports and the bohemian/artist lifestyle.
However, I do think that the media ought to back out of this, probably should have stayed out of it in the first place.
When I was a child, the singer Frank Sinatra and the actress Ava Gardner had a torrid affair while he was still married to first wife Nancy. The media grabbed onto the news and it was in headlines for weeks (or so it seemed to a small child). Parents said on one occasion, "We are sick to death of Frankie and Ava." I remember seeing the news on TV, I think, or maybe it was movie newsreels, Ava hiding behind sunglasses. The media blitz lasted long enough to make a deep impression on a young child.
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Date: 2009-12-14 07:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-14 11:03 pm (UTC)Egad! I just read this over, and realized that I'm kind of an "old biddy" myself, who enjoys these bits of hollywood gossip. No, I used to enjoy them a lot more than I do now. You get tired of the same old, same old...
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Date: 2009-12-15 09:52 am (UTC)