Self centered hedonist can form a perfect marriage?
Under the headline “Portrait of a perfect marriage,” London’s Daily Mail gushed in prose so breathless that anaerobic life forms sprouted spontaneously on the screen: “Eleven years ago this month, Sir Elton John proposed to his partner, David Furnish , thus formalising a relationship that — as the whole world knows — has blossomed into one of the most blissfully happy of show business marriages. “We know this, of course, because Sir Elton and David have been generous enough to share almost every detail of their relationship and family life through the pages of celebrity magazines, in high-profile TV interviews and on social media … Truly, they come across as a wonderfully loving couple.” Leaving aside the need to wipe the screen of one’s laptop and overdose on anti-nausea medication, there cannot now be a literate person in the British Isles who does not know that Elton John and his husband David Furnish are the couple at the centre of the long-running ...