So, David Letterman cheated on his wife. How awful. All of those pretty young interns running around grabbing his coffee...among other things...had to be pretty heavy temptations. But he failed, epically.
Do not take this post to mean that I am condoning Letterman's behavior. Cheating on your significant other is not cool, man. Relationships can recover if one or both partners are strong (or rich), but since this is in the public spectrum, it'll take more time for those wounds to heal.
So instead of getting on his show and, you know, continuing to be funny, he managed to make this a huge deal, spending time talking about it (where he almost made it seem like a joke) and then apologizing to his wife. This isn't the first time a celebrity has publicly acknowledged uncouth behavior and apologized (i.e: Hugh Grant), but this is the first time I've been really annoyed by it.
David Letterman is a late night talk show host, not a philanthropist, televangelist, or your dad. It is understandable that this stuff was going to be used as a means to smear his reputation and he was just trying to dull the fire, but now it's getting ridiculous. Celebrities, especially those with a career in some form of broadcasting, have to put on a "face" for their television audiences. Remember when psychiatrists were arguing that the kids on Jon and Kate Plus Eight were being screwed up because they were being raised in an environment with cameras constantly in their faces, and this was altering their behavior? Well, everyone has a "camera face." To me, apologizing to your scorned wife in front of millions with your "camera face" on is extremely disrespectful. If anything, it's just putting on another face: concerned husband.
Letterman isn't the only guy to blame. It is the media's "job" to practically sensationalize everything they get their grimy hands on, but this is being turned into a more of a moral issue. Really? Television, hollywood, celebrities, etc. are the last places to turn to in search for any examples of morality. In that world, the rules are flipped. You can be a home-wrecker ahemanjelinajolieahem and not catch flack for it, or exploit your children for money ahemkateandjongosselinahem and be celebrated for it. You can be famous for no apparent reason, be the most vacuous, selfish human being and still have millions of people adoring you. Letterman should shut up about it and keep it at home, where it needs to be. Everyone else, don't look at this as a moral issue. He's a talk show host smack-dab in the middle of Hollywood culture. What did you expect?
So instead of getting on his show and, you know, continuing to be funny, he managed to make this a huge deal, spending time talking about it (where he almost made it seem like a joke) and then apologizing to his wife. This isn't the first time a celebrity has publicly acknowledged uncouth behavior and apologized (i.e: Hugh Grant), but this is the first time I've been really annoyed by it.
David Letterman is a late night talk show host, not a philanthropist, televangelist, or your dad. It is understandable that this stuff was going to be used as a means to smear his reputation and he was just trying to dull the fire, but now it's getting ridiculous. Celebrities, especially those with a career in some form of broadcasting, have to put on a "face" for their television audiences. Remember when psychiatrists were arguing that the kids on Jon and Kate Plus Eight were being screwed up because they were being raised in an environment with cameras constantly in their faces, and this was altering their behavior? Well, everyone has a "camera face." To me, apologizing to your scorned wife in front of millions with your "camera face" on is extremely disrespectful. If anything, it's just putting on another face: concerned husband.
Letterman isn't the only guy to blame. It is the media's "job" to practically sensationalize everything they get their grimy hands on, but this is being turned into a more of a moral issue. Really? Television, hollywood, celebrities, etc. are the last places to turn to in search for any examples of morality. In that world, the rules are flipped. You can be a home-wrecker ahemanjelinajolieahem and not catch flack for it, or exploit your children for money ahemkateandjongosselinahem and be celebrated for it. You can be famous for no apparent reason, be the most vacuous, selfish human being and still have millions of people adoring you. Letterman should shut up about it and keep it at home, where it needs to be. Everyone else, don't look at this as a moral issue. He's a talk show host smack-dab in the middle of Hollywood culture. What did you expect?
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