Sculpture.
Glance at the words quickly and you might easily confuse one with the other.
And they are, actually, connected in a way you might not immediately realize.
Allow me.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Film director Tony Scott was buried on Friday at a Los Angeles cemetery as local media reported that the suicide note he left behind contained no mention of why the "Top Gun" maker would take his own life.
The Times cited law enforcement sources as saying officials may never determine the reason behind Scott's suicide.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -Randy
Travis has tangled with the law yet again — in a way that certainly seems
less dramatic than his previous run-ins.
After allegedly getting involved in a dispute
between an estranged husband and wife, Travis was cited Thursday night for Class
C simple assault, Plano police spokesman David Tilley told the Dallas Morning News. The offense was described to People as "similar to a traffic ticket."
The woman involved was Travis' fiancee, the
country star's lawyer told TMZ, while Tilley told other sources she was Travis'
girlfriend. The estranged couple were reportedly arguing in a church parking lot
over visitation of their son, and the singer eventually stepped in, winding up
with torn clothes and "bloodshot" eyes after the incident, TMZ said.
Travis' two most recent arrests, including one earlier this month that saw him taken into custody naked after his car was driven off the road, involved alcohol. One involved a church parking lot.
He's currently out on $21,500 bail in the Aug. 7 incident and facing charges of DWI and retaliation after allegedly threatening to kill the cops involved in that arrest.
Reading the ongoing adventures (trials and tribulations, potato, patahtoh) of celebrities in our culture, people who are often "idolized", so to speak, a couple of similar threads run through the fabric of consideration here.
First, there's that thing about not worshiping false idols.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Then, in each and every instance where an "idol" exhibits an assorted failing or frailty, there is an inevitable, if disappointing, conclusion.
They are all, after all is said, done, glamorized and/or reported as breaking news, only human.
False idols.
Feet of clay.
Scripture.
Sculpture.
Glance at the words quickly and you might easily confuse one with the other.
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