INTERMISSION: getting SO many great comments on this. I won't RT them all, that would be too disruptive. Might at end of essay.
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21. Beginning of wisdom is to realize talent & character are 2 different things. Secondly, performative mask is not private self.
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22. Now let's try to bring this analysis to a few other celebrities: Cosby, Allen, Polanski.
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23. There's credible testimony from multiple women (about 13, I believe) that Bill Cosby raped them.
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24. I'm merely repeating what others have said, but in Cosby case allegations not taken seriously because so odd with his public image
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@kerrie12345 Because Dr.Huxtable would never do such a thing.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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27. The mask is not the face. Yet we want to believe that Bill Cosby IS Dr. Huxtable.
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INTERMISSION: folks, if you keep tweeting smart comments, we're going to be here all night. Not that I mind, just letting you know.
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29. With Woody Allen & Polanski you have not so much the mask of fame (although Allen has that) but the aura of the artist.
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30. With Allen, we can leave aside Dylan's accusations and just look at his relationship with Soon-Yi Previn.
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31. By marrying his partners adopted daughter, Allen transgressed a serious moral line.
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32. Allen's actions re: Soon-Yi Previn did harm one part of his fame: hard to accept mask of nebbish, neurotic, hard-done by Woody again.
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