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This reassurance--that somehow things will be all right, that there is a lot of ruin in a man, as well as in a nation, to paraphrase his idol, Adam Smith--has become part of me, and I can still summon it up when I am terrified because of a huge quarterly tax payment due or a bad day on the market.
Theories: 1) Leonardo DiCaprio is a teen idol for the ages.
In La Repubblica of Rome, Washington correspondent Vittorio Zucconi wrote that Clinton's fate lies in the hands of an "electronic god": "A democratic president is mortally threatened by the same medium, television, that 38 years ago helped construct the myth of another Democratic president, Clinton's idol and model, John F. Kennedy."
But teen idol DiCaprio, who plays both an evil king and his good twin, emerges relatively unscathed.
He played in a Beatles-style band, then embraced the viola out of the despairing recognition that, on the guitar, he would never match the fireworks of Jimi Hendrix, his idol.