I was reading an article on a website about the rocker Marilyn Manson that covered the story of how he gave up his trademark gothic make-up. I've been following his career for some time now and I never thought he would give up his make up. Even if I considered that scenario best reasons I would guess for such an act would be: he's doing a serious movie role, he is retired and settled down as a family man, or he found God, which would be highly unlikely since it would contradict his body of work but it would be hilarious if that actually happened. His apparent reason for losing his make-up? He wanted to dress up like a character from a TV show that he is obsessed with. Really? He gave up something that separated him from the rest of us just to act like one of us.
May be it is not that big of a deal, but this does show that no matter how popular, rich, and rebellious one appears to be and no matter the distance one goes to separate themselves from the 'normal' we all as human beings share similar values. We all fantasize about being someone we saw on TV even if one occasionally appears on TV themselves. Interesting.
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