Re: Mr. Hannah Montana's Achy Broken Heart

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Mike Findlay wrote:
> No, I don't think of Shirley Temple as a troubled child star.  Coogan I 
> would tend to think of troubled - the getting ripped off by parents is 
> somewhat of a theme for child stars.

Getting ripped off is certainly trouble of a sort, but it tends to reflect 
more poorly on the parents than on the child star himself, so it doesn't 
seem like quite the same sort of thing.

> There is a difference between excusing Billy Ray, which I don't think 
> anyone is doing, and being sympathetic towards him, especially in light 
> of the things he expressed in the article.  I'm guessing that none of us 
> will do a better job of beating him up over it than he will himself.

Agreed.

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