Britney Spears - American Tragedy

Color me amused by the cover of the Rolling Stone that appeared on my doorstep (mailbox, to be more specific, but doorstep has such Middle American connotations) this past Thursday.  It'll be in the classroom next week, but if you can't wait, it is an expose of the "tragedy" of Britney Spears.  I think Aristotle might have a lot to say about Americans' fascination with Ms. Spears.  The article reads like a textbook tragedy.  Again, we are not at all unlike the Greeks, Romans, or Elizabethans.  In fact, we're probably worse, as most celebrities' tragic flaws seems to be their inability to deal with the pressure of celebrity.   Paradox and irony all rolled up into one.