Why Angelina Jolie’s Op-Ed Matters   But celebrity is like any
other pollutant: you can fight it, but only while coexisting
with it, and with people who are far less concerned with
limiting it than you might be. You can close your windows, move
away, don’t look (I certainly try not to look), but it’s part of
the messy world anyway. And every now and then, somebody finds
an upside.  That’s what happened with the op-ed Angelina Jolie
published in The New York Times this morning about her decision
to undergo a double mastectomy after discovering that an
inherited gene mutation put her at extremely high risk of breast
and ovarian cancer. (Since she speaks of having “started with”
the breast surgery, it seems likely she plans prophylactic
removal of her ovaries also, though she doesn’t directly say
so.) She’s been undergoing procedures, including a
reconstruction, for several months at a breast center in
California, during which time she somehow didn’t find her
surgery shared with the public.  She writes about mak