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.
The trouble is that if you market yourself as the squeaky clean alternative to all those awful bad boys, people expect you to act like, you know, a squeaky clean alternative...
That said, I wish folks would let all of our fallen stars alone to straighten out their lives. Except Clinton, of course: we really do expect people to keep their hands to themselves when they're ordering tactical strikes.
Information about the stars is so tightly controlled by their PR people that we can be forgiven for going a little bonkers when something gets into the public sphere that hasn't been tightly scripted.
Once a politician has left office I find my animus against him or her largely disappears. I was reading this morning about what George Bush is doing in retirement and found myself chuckling warmly. He seems to have chosen to fade discreetly into the Texan scenery- and good for him.
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Date: 2009-12-14 09:05 pm (UTC)That said, I wish folks would let all of our fallen stars alone to straighten out their lives. Except Clinton, of course: we really do expect people to keep their hands to themselves when they're ordering tactical strikes.
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Date: 2009-12-15 09:59 am (UTC)Once a politician has left office I find my animus against him or her largely disappears. I was reading this morning about what George Bush is doing in retirement and found myself chuckling warmly. He seems to have chosen to fade discreetly into the Texan scenery- and good for him.