-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote:
... > Fascinating human story either way. I remember in India when he told us "It was the greatest good fortune for all mankind...that I decided to come out." He would certainly get a gold star in the self-esteem building workshop for that one. But for my taste he could have dialed it back a notch or 20. > Yes, me too! And, flagellate me all you want, I generally love MMY's style - his bearing, his mode of expression, his 'look'. But, could it be? Could this be a cultural thing? There is a certain, how shall I say, "front"?, about the Indo-Pakistani way of expression. Us Brits do the Hugh Grant self-effacing thing to a fault. It's all relative though. Could it be that we're just being too Hugh Grant on MMY's arse, when we should be more Muhammad Ali? "If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize"