创新英语教程第二册 unit19a
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    [00:05.20]While you read

    [00:12.28]Rich and Famous or Rich and Dangerous?

    [00:17.61]They say that in the end we're all the same.You can have money and fame,

    [00:25.44]but in the end you still have to do the same kind of things as everyone else-

    [00:31.97]sleep,eat, fall in and out of love.and,apparently.commit crimes!

    [00:40.44]Yes,when you look at the world of celebrities,

    [00:45.71]it's amazing how many have had trouble with the law.

    [00:51.07]Here's just a few of the ones we could remember,but the Internet has lots more!

    [00:58.23]O.J.Simpson

    [01:01.88]O.J.was involved in perhaps the most famous celebrity trial of them all.

    [01:09.02]He was accused of killing his ex-wife.Nicole Brown.

    [01:14.76]and her lover.Ronald Goldman,

    [01:18.92]and he was allegedly filmed driving away from the scene in a truck.

    [01:24.87]At first,the evidence suggesting he was guilty

    [01:30.44]seemed to many people to be very clear,

    [01:34.88]but the trial,which was televised around the world,found him innocent.

    [01:41.12]Lots of people think the jury got it wrong

    [01:46.16]and that he was lucky to get away with it.

    [01:50.00]He had to pay several million dollars in damages to the victims' relatives

    [01:56.56]when they took him to court afterward.

    [02:00.32]However,as one American comedian said,

    [02:05.39]Have you ever heard of a millionaire murdering someone with their own hands?

    [02:11.74]These people employ someone just to answer the telephone!

    [02:16.70]Johnny Depp

    [02:20.36]He may look sweet and innocent,

    [02:24.51]but Johnny Depp has been found guilty of vandalism more than once in his life.

    [02:31.07]On one occasion,he smashed up a hotel room in New York.

    [02:36.94]He was charged,but it didn't go to court

    [02:41.99]because he agreed to pay $2000 to the hotel to repair the damage.

    [02:48.33]Mike Tyson

    [02:52.28]Mike Tyson continued to earn millions of dollars as a boxer

    [02:58.44]even after he had been to prison for rape.

    [03:03.20]He took a nineteen-year-old contestant in the Miss America beauty contest

    [03:09.54]to his hotel room and forced her to have sex with him.

    [03:14.87]He was later found guilty and was sentenced to six years in prison,

    [03:21.53]but he got out just three years later for good behaviour.

    [03:27.10]He hasn't exactly shown much good behaviour since then,though!

    [03:32.35]Jean-Claude van Damme

    [03:36.50]After admitting he had been drink-driving,

    [03:41.54]the so-called Muscles from Brussels was ordered to pay a $1200 fine.

    [03:49.62]was banned from driving for ninety days.

    [03:53.98]and was forced to go to an anti-drink-driving course.

    [03:59.26]Let's hope the course was more effective than the acting lessons he took!

    [04:05.11]David Beckham

    [04:08.87]Another bad driver is David Beckham.

    [04:13.41]He was convicted of driving at over ninety miles an hour

    [04:18.77]when he was on his way to a training session for his former football club.Manchester United.

    [04:25.43]His excuse was that he was being chased by a photographer.

    [04:31.49]He was also banned from driving,

    [04:35.54]but shortly afterwards the judge agreed to give him back his driving licence,

    [04:41.47]because he said that,as a celebrity,

    [04:45.94]it was safer for Beckham to travel in his own car than on public transport.

    [04:52.00]Safer for David,perhaps,but not for everyone else on the road.

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