Too Much, Too Young Or Too Good To Be True? Fingers crossed!
Cristiano Ronaldo is a charming and talented 18-year-old Portuguese football player, from a very poor family, who has just been bought by Manchester United for almost 20 million dollars/euros, a record amount. Given the No.7 shirt previously worn by the likes of George Best, Eric Cantona and David Beckham,
his first game at Old Trafford has earned him
rave reviews in the British press. Forgetting the football for a moment, how difficult is it for a teenager to deal with expectations this high and success this early in career and life?
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Aug 17, 2003 -
24 comments
Brooklyn Welcomes Romeo Beckham! The stuffy old
Daily Telegraph heartily approves of
Romeo, the name Victoria and David Beckham have given to
their new baby, a brother to
Brooklyn. So now an extra throne must be added to the happy parents' atrocious, unmissable
website. I would have let this foolishness pass, had I not noticed with alarm that there already exists a
bottomless resource catering to those who
insist on giving their offspring Shakespearean names. If this is a trend, how bad can it get?[
Please, no suicide jokes.]
Or, to put it in Shakespeare's own words, from
Romeo and Juliet no less, is this a case of "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by another name would smell as sweet"[
Act ii, sc.2] or, rather, of "the children of an idle brain begot of nothing but vain fantasy"?[
Act i, sc.4]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Sep 2, 2002 -
72 comments
