Crimes and misdemeanors

How quickly they fall. We revere them, endear them to our hearts, and look to them to be beautiful, moral, and relatively intelligent. America has made Hollywood celebrities and pop stars its royal family. However, unlike the royal families of Europe, we do not keep our royalty on pedestals when they screw up. If Prince Charles has 15 bastard children with Camilla, he's still the future King of England. But if the American public hears that Bill Cosby might have had even one kid out of wedlock, we castrate him for a week before we hear it's not true. It's the double-edged sword of fame.