What is it about celebrities that makes us love them or hate them?
As Shaun White waited at the top of the halfpipe for his final run in the Winter Olympics, eyes ping-ponging nervously behind his glare-reducing goggles, I can't say I was cheering him on. Honestly ... I was kinda rooting for the halfpipe. The thing is breathtaking. Long, menacing and possessing a geometric purity that made it an arresting sight, even viewed in the flat, rectangular confines of a living-room-sized HDTV.
White, on the other hand, didn't look that good to me. Strutting around in gold chains, nursing an obviously fragile, swollen ego after a disastrous performance in the Sochi Winter Olympics, the guy looked past his prime, scared and ripe for
