[tsearcher]

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I hink it really has to do with the media today. We know all about Lindsay Lohan's drinking and we've seen Britney's hoo-haw, and we read all about that terrible Hollywood divorce in the papers and see what it's like behind the scenes of Desperate Housewives on Entertainment Tonight.

There's no more mystery. There's no studio cultivating a persona for Gable, Stewart and Davis anymore.

Back then, you NEVER saw these people in the news except as part of a promotion for their next movie.

Mystery creates idolatry. Since we have no mystery regarding today's stars they are no more than human to us.

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There were gossip magazines and radio shows back then. The studies probably had more control of the content, but all that stuff existed.