Ryan's Ubiquitious Crab

I have to give Ryan O'Neal credit. His interview with Tavis Smiley to promote the new book about life with Farrah Fawcett is the worst thing I've seen since the modern format was generated. There is a subtext here relating to the resentment of adulation, which I have previously discussed, and which makes it interesting, despite O'Neal's own disenchanted ennui. Fame is a burden, especially when it leaves you behind, its capital exhausted, and the only thing left is the salacious twitter that you're the guy who hooked up with the bionic man's wife, and Tatum did not make a successful transition like Jodie Foster. Tatum ceased being America's darling a long time ago, with just enough clout for bit parts on Criminal Intent, though Wolf's franchise has also exhausted its relevance. Ryan finally remembers to turn on his persona for the last ten minutes, but still says stupid things, without admitting the obvious, which is that he wrote the book to piggyback on his deceased wife's currency, needing the money, though of course Farrah's death from cancer is not Eric Segal's sappy Love Story, which has its own subtext of America's Wasp elite crumbling before neo-liberalism's expression of personal autonomy. In 2012 this is nearly what the Victorian Era represented to the absolute ideological thrust of the 20th century, culminating in the seizure of world wars, end result being that boundaries have all but been eradicated. As much as I'd like to offer O'Neal my commiseration, his resentments seem somewhat flimsy. The entertainment industry is what it is in the United States due to the triumph of material glamour, and I myself cannot exhaust too much capital on the fact that a Barbie Doll modality was one of the many burdens he and Fawcett had to carry, while she fought hard in her maturity before that camera to be an Authentic Woman. Real humanity is still invisible in this context, the reality of bodily vunerability being left to progressive documentaries about human disease and denial of mortality.