On this whole celebrity thing and all… ya know, this kind of thing is pretty rough to deal with. I have worked with a lot of big names (before the strike) and mainly people are people, with all the attendant flaws, excesses and stoopid moments as much as they brilliant ones. The reason one cannot pidgeonhole Becks is because the “public” persona is mediated by other self-interested parties (media, sponsors, employers, employees, et al). I have Spielberg horror stories and heartwarming ones, same as I have crazy-Nick stories that swing both ways. Frankly it’s easier to know who crazy-Nick is as a human being because there’s only myself to mediate my interaction with him. Spielberg, I’ve worked with but I don’t know him. Hell, we’ll never really know Becks on the same level as even Spielberg unless we work with him directly, and even then crazy-Nick will be better known because he’s under the freeway and we can sit and hang out with him far easier than Steven or David any day of the week.

Best just to deal with what a footballer does on the pitch. The other fluff is for People magazine and that ilk. For all my bitching about Lando, I still have to stick to bitching about his lack of performance on the pitch because that’s all I get to really see in any real way.

It was an interesting article. I’ve seen how sentimental he is, consistently about kids and football, since he was almost a kid himself. But he almost never mentions giving money, the tabs just turn up a report from their charity occasionally.

I guess its a round world .