You generally come across to the public as such a carefree persona, yet this seems to reveal much more insight, no?

Keep up all the work and thought!

SuzyQ

There lies a great pair of bookends. But Mike is the novel in between. Your know that kind of reading described as a page turner? Yeh that would be Rowe.

The concept of celebrity was initially changed for us, not by us. Once upon a time we had to choose between six movies and – if I’m to believe my parents – three channels on TV. Now the influx of choice is such that entertainers must grab our attention by any means possible, if they wish to keep being “The Celebrity.”

It’s give-and-take. There is no good guy/bad guy here. The celebrity wishes to keep his paycheck and so makes a movie, record, show. We watch, read, listen. In return, the audience wants info.

And, though I may be grossly incorrect, there is not a celebrity out there who doesn’t want the continued interest; the attention may not always be welcome, but it is part and parcel of the job.

If that were not the case, then any celebrity wishing anonymity and space, could retire to Middle-of-Nowhere, America and do dinner theater, or teach high school drama.

That may not be fair, but neither is a twenty million dollar paycheck for three months of work.

I think you do. There is something very simple about crawling in mud, poo, and various other smelly things. we all identify with it because we have all done it and it triggers those memories . I don’t expect that’s the real Mike Rowe but it’s one part I identify with.So like it or not you have a lot of online contacts that will go look up past posts of yours just to read what you have to say again.We think you are special and I think you know you are too.

I read in M.H.’s question a hope that there can be an admiration of an ideal. Combine a Renaissance man and an Average Joe and get someone worth looking at again and again and again. We do desire the authentic; Captain Phil had that in spades.

Credibility and complexity are actually important to many despite what The Star says. This complexity isn’t about going bald or adopting babies. That is the stuff of every day life and only proves the celebrity is a normal human, less than we wish.

Why study the workings of Thomas Jefferson a man of brilliant words and inventions if we only wish to concentrate on Sally Hemings?

Except in math and science, too much information blurs the image that is being forged.

Perhaps it’s for the greater good.

There are two of you now. And I’m pretty sure you know this.

Mike Rowe…and OMG..it’s MIKE ROWE.

One of them benefits greatly from celebrity. The other, not so much.

The challenge I think is figuring out how to balance the two for a peaceful and productive co-existence.

Whether that is “good” or not depends on the day of the week. 🙂

Best of Luck to Ya Bud!!

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