Reality in poetry

[rayheinrich]

Not everyone is as gullible as those in the land that gave us Hollywood.

The operative phrase there is "Not everyone". Never claimed 100%.
Actors, especially stars, have always been treated/thought-of as their characters.  
More so than poetry, that's for sure. I don't consider myself particularly gullible,
but whenever I was around some well-known actor, I could not help but
think of him as his character. It's a product of not knowing them in real life;
the brain ends up filling the vacuum.