I used to be awestruck by a few famous people (as opposed to just admiring them) but in my life I'd actually had the experience of working with or for them, of knowing them and even of living with them, and I soon learned . . . . nope, just people. Some are nice, and some are jerks, and probably a bit or a lot more jerky than they would have been if they hadn't gotten famous. When it comes to people like musicians and artists, it's so easy to identify them as being the same as the content of the music and art they produce - but the creative process does its own thing, just through them, often as if they were simply channeling it. The person who hears a beautiful love song and thinks the singer actually thinks of/treats women just like that could be so wrong! When it comes to people famous for their leadership or their work, I think that there you can be a bit more confident in ascribing similar characteristics to them as are found in their accomplishments. But still -- just people in the end. Pretty much the only "hero" I've ever had along this line is Nelson Mandela, but this is because I admire the fact that he endured what he endured without, apparently, becoming contaminated by it. A quality I'd like to have, for sure. I even named a cat after the guy when he was released from prison! But I know that I don't actually know the man, even though I've read his autobiography.

And even arch villains have their little things that they enjoy or that they love, in sharp contrast to their acfions. In a way I've always been a bit annoyed by that! they're supposed to be totally bad, so I can be of a clear mind about them, lol!