"I lobbied [Henry Louis Gates] the same way I lobby directors about what takes of mine I think they should use. This is the collaborative creative process."--actor/director Ben Affleck, apologizing for asking Gates to remove a certain slave-owning ancestor of Affleck from an episode of the FINDING YOUR ROOTS television series.
now we know what true Celebrity is:
it occurs when a star can agree
to appear on a television show
on the subject of genealogy
and ask for a certain relative to be erased
in much the same way the star can demand
a newspaper or magazine or website
to kill details about his/her private life
or omit any outbursts committed
in the course of the interview
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imagining how many other omissions
might have occurred
if Ben Affleck had switched his career
from making movies
to running for national elected office
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