6A. Childcare is intervening. I'll return to this after I get Bella to bed.
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6B. Okay, Bella is asleep. Back to the epistemology of celebrityhood.
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7. Part of the art of being a great performer is being able to create the illusion of intimacy. We feel like we "know" De Niro or Brando
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8. Ghomeshi provides a case study of how illusion of intimacy works. As mentioned before I was interviewed by him twice.
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9. I had a peak at the wires behind the curtain, learned how hard his staff worked to prep him for interview.
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10. And yet despite knowing about staff work, when Ghomeshi interviewed me I felt like it was intimate & real conversation.
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11. In my interviews Ghomeshi was everything one could want: engaged, responsive, ingratiating, funny, smart, respectful.
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12. The ingratiating and kind Ghomeshi I got to "know" by interview exact polor opposite of the creep we read about from victims.
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14. Point to bring out dichotomy or public & private is not to psychoanalyze Ghomeshi, an impossible task from afar.
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15. Rather the point is that the public self we saw was creation of high artifice: "if you can fake sincerity, you've got it made"
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16. Public/private dichotomy also points out why so many listeners have reacted to news as a personal betrayal. We thought we knew him.
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17. Now that news of the private self has leaked out, people who used to like JG go to opposite extreme: he was never any good & a fake
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