If it is the playwrite, then he is one of Australia's jewels, in this day of all things American.
I for one have always been forgiving of flaws in a genius and he probably is one.
All great people have their flaws and the Apostle Paul and others referred to it as God's attempt to keep them humble. I don't know about that, but we do seem to have this strange view that if someone is great in one area then his whole life should be of the same standard.
In sport we are dismayed that Warne can be a great bowler and a sex maniac. Bradman was probably mean and nasty. Thorpe is probably gay etc.
In politics, Kennedy was a womaniser as was Clinton. Others were drunks and drug addicts. Bush doesn't have a brain, whoops forget that one.
We need to appreciate their great qualities, realise they are human, and don't turn them into gods.
