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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."
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.
Theories: 1) Leonardo DiCaprio is a teen idol for the ages.
Editorialists bemoaned the fall of an idol (see
But teen idol DiCaprio, who plays both an evil king and his good twin, emerges relatively unscathed.