Why do we build up these spiritual blogstars and then cry foul when our idol turns out to be just as fallibly human as we are? |
Leaving aside the religious connotations of the word, an idol in the realm of pop culture is someone that people look up to and engage with. |
In the eyes of idolaters, the idol was seen neither as the source of their existence nor as the source of their well-being. |
I know that Dad was an idol to millions who grew up loving his music and his ideals. |
Wilder grew up loving Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but his great idol was famed director Ernst Lubitsch. |
He had the look of a former idol or tennis star with his medium build, blue eyes, and short wavy blonde hair. |