Kind of hard to escape scandal when you're constantly under the microscope of public scrutiny. It's hell living in a fishbowl, which is why Hollywood stardom isn't so appealing to me.
Not for me, either. But it's their choice. There's a whole industry that supports the fish bowl. A photog takes a picture of a star on the red carpet of a premier, it's worth about 10 bucks. The same guy gets a picture of the same star fighting with his girlfriend in the parking lot of the Silverlake Ralph's, the photo is worth $20,000. That's a powerful motivator...but like I said, it's their choice.
I like what Leno called it the ocsars a gay super bowl.