The common refrain that Trump and his offensive behavior is a gift for the rating-starved media may be true, but unlike past presidential candidates who appeared on "Saturday Night Live" or "The Tonight Show," Trump's unique boundary-blurring persona — a reality host running for president — has presented the television media with a series of professional dilemmas.
In places like London, Paris and New York, the images cultivated by despots blur into personae of benign celebrity eccentric, perhaps, but hardly visible manifestations of evil.
But her persona was blurred.
Like the many (many) reality TV stars who came after her, the line between Richie's public and private persona quickly blurred into nonexistence after the show took off.
Like the many (many) reality TV stars that came after her, the line between Richie's public and private persona quickly blurred into nonexistence after the show took off.
The script was set and, like many scripts, it took over the actor to the point where person and persona became fatally blurred.
The lines between Simmons the person, the weight-loss guru, the hero, and the persona got horribly blurred, Taberski suggests, and perhaps stopping the whole thing was the only way that he could get out.
However, by 1982's The Hunter, a dire pop album that was completed under duress and sounded like it, Blondie imploded, as the distinction between the band and Harry's public persona became too blurred.
It was a moment that blurred the line between person and persona — a rare example of celebrity clarity, or insanity, or else a stunt, or perhaps some of each.
Chatbots are on the rise, but are their human names and personas blurring our sense of the real and artificial?
In their early work Frantic Assembly often blurred the boundaries between the performers' real lives and their stage personas.
