I don't know if you can assume that the famous performer who walks off stage or the person you see being difficult in an interview is the "real" person at all.
There is a huge amount of artifice to playing the fame game. Plenty of famous people over the years have detested giving interviews or have been reluctant performers, but that does not necessarily reflect on them as everyday people. A famous person who walks off stage during a concert or gives an arrogant-sounding interview could go home and be the most loving parent, the most attentive lover, the most kind and generous friend. There is an inability on the part of a lot of fans to appreciate this dynamic, this difference, between the famous artifice and the actual human being behind it. We, as fans, hold them to standards they may not feel comfortable with. The media, too, applies their own rules to the famous people who waltz onto their spot-lit stages. If they don't conform, they are "difficult to interview" or are "arrogant and dismissive." But at the dinner table they may tell dirty jokes, or may tuck their kids in at night. They may wash their own cars and be the most approachable human being you could ever hope to meet. Put them in an interview situation or on a stage where they don't feel comfortable and you get a different side. Famous people don't owe us anything just like we don't owe it to them to be forever loyal. And assuming we could ever know the "real" Joni is a bit far fetched. -Andrew Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com
