Tommy Thompson's Celebrity (1984 TV miniseries) [VHS]

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Review by Jacques COULARDEAU, 2003-10-11

A very good TV mini-series in three episodes. It shows how three promising (or at least two) high school students are led into some criminal action and subsequent cover-up by the less promising one of the three. They will all become famous. One after a football accident will regenerate as an actor. One will follow his plan and become a very famous reporter and journalist. The less promising one will end up making money in some illegal way, spending some time in prison and discovering that preaching is a good career. They will finally confront one another and face the past crime. It will lead to a catastrophe and also to revelation and « justice ». The series shows very well that the motivations of people to become famous, rich, powerful can be very different, and the roads to that fame, power or wealth very haphazard and unlikely. It reveals also that a deeply buried crime always comes back one day and demands justice which is found in a way or another. It is thus the mixture of an enterprising spirit and the limits that must not be stepped over and yet are. These trespassing moments will haunt the people till revelation and death or justice come. But it also shows that in US society success is not always attached to honesty and faithfulness. It can come with some decision one day to privilege money making over ethics, and even transform an ethical deed into a money making decision. In other words it is not the money you own that makes you a great man, and the money you own is not the sign of your ethics. Ethics are on a totally different level and have nothing to do with money, success or power and fame. A revealing series too about Texas and the strange obsessions this particular American community carries in their minds. Guilt, the rejection of some deviant attitudes, the obsession of morality and religious behaviors, the gullibility of those who hear the name of God, the hypocrisy of the reborn in Jesus Christ, of those chosen by God. The louder you proclaim your religious faith and your ethical righteousness, the darker your deeper soul and side are.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU