Re: The shame-fame game

["L. Bird" <pkeets@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

By the way, Brian, thank you for keeping these articles coming.

Here's Ferman's eddress:

dferman@star-telegram.com

Here's Louis Black's feedback form:

http://www.austinchronicle.com/info/email_directory.php


keets


> > Lately we've had to strike that balance more and more:
> > Two rock icons (the Who's Pete Townshend and producer
> > Phil Spector) were arrested recently, Townshend during
> > an Internet child-porn sting, and Spector after a
> > shooting death in his home.
> >
> > "I think the Townshend thing will be a small stain,"
> > says Louis Black, editor of The Austin Chronicle and a
> > director of the South By Southwest music festival. "In
> > 50 years, this won't define him, because rock writers
> > don't want to believe it -- whereas we want some
> > people to get their comeuppance, like Martha Stewart.
> > Some people are Teflon and some people aren't.
> > Black says that the Townshend arrest will be very
> > damaging in the short term, because before this he was
> > seen as a creative, thoughtful songwriter who -- based
> > on such records as Tommy and Quadrophenia -- cared
> > deeply about young people.

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