However, I do see a thread running through there, something I cannot seem to leave alone, and that thread is the search for identity. Who says so. That's the killer. Because it seems that a lot of people want to decide for you. Starting with our parents, our older siblings, our teachers and coaches.
Role models are fine, and useful, but they're just so damnably limited.
We have already made our statement when we pay somebody a zillion dollars to stand up there and reflect back down on us just what we think perfection is. Stallone doesn't make the statement, he has nothing to say. We make the statement by putting him up there. It's the sameness, and the artificiality, of our icons that hurt. There aren't a lot of flute players up there on the American Marquee.