What the fuck is wrong with people that they think:

(a) that it is practically their right to know really personal and normally private information about anyone they have ever seen a picture of?

or

(b) that somehow a picture is devalued by not having been taken within the same week that they saw it?

Do people avoid watching The Big Sleep because it came out a while ago and Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart are no longer a couple? Him being dead for fifty years and all.

Here is a quote from Lauren Bacall which I think speaks to the issue: “A legend involves the past. I don’t like categories. This one is great and that one is great. The word great stands for something. When you talk about a great actor, you’re not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It’s inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but, I think it’s kind of a sickness.”

There is something of the personal in art, but that doesn’t mean that participating in the creation of art obligates one to sell one’s personal life in its entirety.