Chicago Escorts: Michael Jackson and Our Modern Celebrity Culture

Moreover, we only see what makes it onto the screen. But what happens behind the scenes sometimes cannot even manage an R rating. For example, a documentary reported that Rick Nelson, the late singer, musician, and actor, lost his virginity to a prostitute at the tender age of 13 (and this was Ozzie and Harriet’s boy and the 1950s). And I don’t think this is at all unusual. The entertainment industry is notorious for its party-and-drugs climate; it is very much one big occasion of sin.
Thus, while there are good people in entertainment, it nevertheless vaguely resembles an asylum of the weak, weird, and wounded. This is why it’s so tragic that we exalt celebrities the way we do. And mankind didn’t always do so. In the Roman Empire, actors were placed down near the level of a prostitute. Even as recently as the early 20th century, they were held in low esteem. Theirs was a career that could never be the calling of a lady or gentleman.

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