Fantastischer Artikel der L.A. Times
The imperial celeb is liberating us from the illusions we harbor about stars.
Die Essenz ist, das der Grund warum sich viele freuen das er gefeuert wurde darin besteht, das er gezeigt hat das er kein "normaler" aus dem Volk ist. Deshalb gönnt man ihm den Erfolg nicht mehr. (ganz vereinfacht...man sollte den Artikel lesen)
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> His role on "Two and a Half Men" as a womanizing, footloose bachelor seems lifted out of his real life, which is one of the reasons it is funny. We think we are seeing Sheen spoofing himself.
When Sheen reminded us that his life is even more extreme than his character's, the media turned censorious.
Sheen is absolutely right to call this hypocrisy.
He has never pretended to be a Boy Scout.
He has always purported to be precisely the opposite.
Most of us want to think of celebrities as ordinary folks who, by dint of talent, hard work and a bit of luck, ascended to the heights.
We want to think of them that way, one suspects, because it binds them more closely to us and because it allows us to indulge the fantasy that it could be us up there on the screen.
And that may be Sheen's real infraction to his detractors: In letting us know that he is nothing like us — that his life is the American dream on steroids and that many of us, as he says, are jealous of him for it — he has shown us that envy is at least as potent a force as identification. With his firing this week, one might even say that he sacrificed his career for the cause. <
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/com ... 6559.story