{"id":852,"date":"2007-02-20T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/02\/do-it-for-us-one-more-time.html"},"modified":"2007-02-20T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T17:10:00","slug":"do-it-for-us-one-more-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/02\/do-it-for-us-one-more-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Do It For Us One More Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The press this week about Britney Spears has centered on a single puzzle–what’s going through that newly bald head? For a while, Britney’s life has been “The Truman Show<\/a>” meets “Real World<\/a>.” In the past week, reports from the disaster-in-progess have come so frequently we seem to be watching in real-time. The few remaining gaps in the news cycle only give the car-wreck that authentic slo-mo feel. Late-night talk show host Craig Ferguson punctuated her most recent slide when he swore off<\/a> the Britney jokes because he didn’t want to pick on someone who is so vulnerable.<\/p>\n

The question is, when did Britney <\/a>become so vulnerable? Not last weekend, when she buzzed off her hair in a San Fernando Valley hair salon, then went for a couple of new tattoos. Only Americans, it seems, can repeatedly be shocked when a child star–who, after all, has everything we’d need to be happy, right?–makes a bumpy transition to adulthood. None of us are responsible for what’s happened to Britney–or Judy Garland, Liz Taylor<\/a>, or lesser lights like the now cleaned-up and Oscar-nominated Jackie Earle Haley<\/a>. But maybe the Craig Fergusons of the world could clue in earlier when the next generation of wealthy, wattage-weary teenagers begin their swoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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