Actors Share, but do we really want to know?

As glamorous as the life seems, it must be frustrating to be a public figure. On the one hand, you might be fabulously rich and adored, but the downsides aren't always easily dismissed.

Most of the downsides can be grouped under one category: privacy.

Famous people simply can't afford it. To a very large, expansive extent it is very true that you can't have bad press. They need to be seen, visible, vocal and approachable to stay in the news and win fan hearts. If this means they are unable to take their kids to the park without cameras or grocery shop in peace, they accept it and move on.

And the fans clamor ever for more and more and MORE! They want news, photos, interviews, personal information. Every new piece feeds the craving for more. Eventually, most stars give in. They take their child out, they tell stories about their lives, their politics and their wives. And the fans eat it up.

Sometimes, with the information comes things you don't want to know. I, for one, hate knowing the politics of my favorite stars (David Boreanaz, please never proclaim yours, thanks!). I still, fairly well, work hard to tune out George Clooney's proclivities. And he's generally not that invasive with them. He knows what the public wants and what it doesn't. Unfortunately, I'm fairly ruined on Alec Baldwin. He's not only insistent on his politics, he's demanding and even offensive in his choice. So be it.

One very recent example of this "oops, did I really want to know that?" problem is an interview Eliza Dushku did just this week on Jimmy Kimmel live. She proudly proclaimed her hunting activities. It's no surprise that PETA has already jumped on her, spouting a figure claiming that 95% of Americans oppose hunting.

Really? Are they excluding everything from South Carolina through, Texas?

I'll admit that I support the right, even the activity, to hunt. She's not doing it for pure sport or evil, she ate what she killed. And, beyond that, she makes a fantastic point: If you're willing to eat meat you should have no problem with hunting. I, personally, can't smoosh a bug without qualms. But I do eat meat and fully realize the consequences of how the process works.

I'm sure there has been a mixed response to her proclamation, from "Go Eliza!", to "How dare she?" to the invariable "That's so hot!" from many red-blooded, gun totin' men out there. I would hazard that even a few liberal men jumped at watching her handle that bow.

I don't envy the fishbowl the actors inhabit. We, as fans peer in, looking for more and more details, and we will always hit the point where we find out more than we wished to know.