douglas - // Sometimes people, in all walks of life, just can't help themselves and refuse to back down even when it's blindingly obvious to observers that the cause is lost and they're just desperately trying to find a way out with the least embarrassment. //
A fair point.
The problem with being rich and famous is that all the good people around you who talked sense about what was good for you, whether you wanted to hear it or not, tend to get replaced by bad people who only talk nonsense about what may or may not be good for you, but will always only ever be what they think you want to hear.
That can only ever mean trouble ...