John Oakley: David Beckam makes Toronto feel "world class"
| For all it’s pretense as a world-class city, there’s something still quaintly provincial about a town that goes agog over a footie player on a shopping spree. David Beckam was just the latest celeb to cause a fuss by ambling through some of the Toronto’s boutiques on Saturday, in town for the much-anticipated tilt between Toronto and his LA Galaxy. That he didn’t play, wasn’t even scheduled to play, was irrelevant in the end, except to perhaps a few thousand hard-core punters who think the Beckam phenomenon really is all about footie. The truth is, it’s about star power, and the profile it engenders. Beckam will still be a great boon to the league even if he never ties another boot on this season. Unlike in other cities such as New York, London or L.A., where the locals have become blasé and less fawning in their approach to pop culture icons, demanding results from their highly paid serfs, towns desperate for world-class legitimacy only need the guy to show up to validate them, even if he’s only scoping the shops for a new pair of shades. |
1 comment:
ah haha hah hah ahah hah.
yea LA doesn't have anyone similar. The lindsey Lohans and Paris Hiltons certainly are far more substantial now aren't they!
I think I remember an article stating torontonians were to be upset that others don't care. Well heh newsflash, this torontonian doesn't give a shit, and finds it odd people who apparently don't care, love to shit on it.
whatever. lol.
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