There's a link to an article on his name in the OP. LadyX, judge as you like. I guess I just think there's something very wrong with how we view celebrities, they have so much power and are given so much license to people who by profession deal in presenting an image of themselves. I guess I'm opting out of the Cult of Celebrity, and looking at them as people. People with the power to get away with a lot, and who often do get away with a lot
My first instinct on watching Manhattan was that Woody was skeezy, with the 16 year old Muriel Hemmingway as a love interest and how the relationship and her character was portrayed. His other works brought me around and my blinders went on to his personal activities. I think with a lot of art, this doesn't matter as much, it should be judged on its own accord, but in the case of Celebrity part of the art is their image. I starting to feel this is very wrong.
As [MENTION=18819]five sounds[/MENTION] mentioned there is also the opposite effect, where we judge celebs harshly. It seems that as soon as you're on TV, you are put to a different set of standards altogether. All these young train wrecks can't have their teenage spaz outs in their privacy, no kid should live their lives on national news, even *if* they want to.
My first awareness of this was back when Chelsea Clinton had the only claim to fame as being the President's teenage daughter. All of a sudden this gave the world license to judge her as people feel free to judge anybody in the news. Not only did this seem wrong, the standards were completely different. So many people called her ugly, when A) she was a perfectly cute girl by all normal measures and B) WTF does that matter??.
The people of the world who aren't scrambling to eat and find a roof to live under, keep this celebrity universe in shrines in their homes on glowing screens put on pedestals. I'm not saying that the entertainment industry doesn't have anything valuable to offer, but I think it and its idols need to be viewed in a more reasonable context.