What's Behind Our Obsession With Celebrity?

Newhouse News ^ | 2/28/2006 | Michele M. Melendez & Dru Sefton

[mc5cents]

look at all the threads on freerepublic where they post the photos of celebrity women

Yea, I know.......

[highlander_UW]

I don't even need to know who Lindsay Lohan is.

I know who she is because my daughter is 12, but until this article complaining about focus on celebrities I didn't know there was some comments about her weight.

Personally, I turn the channel every time there is a story about celebrities...but eventually just ended up turning it off because that's about all the media tries to shove down our throats.

[durasell]

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/COWWHA.html

[higgmeister]

What does she have to do with your 12 year old daughter?

[highlander_UW]

What does she have to do with your 12 year old daughter?

She makes movies and music targeted to my daughter's demographic.

[Revolting cat!]

Celebrity -- known for being known.

[Revolting cat!]

And since the cat boycotts Hollyweird and the idiot box too, they are all known for being known to me. I couldn't tell a "Tom Hanks" from a "Tom Cruise", even though I'm told one of them, I don't remember which now, grew up near the cathouse. (And I put their names in quotes, because I don't believe celebrities use their real names. I mean, "Liberace", "Rock Hudson", "Yo Yo Ma"? Get out of here! Hey, wouldn't it be weird if "Tom Hanks'" real name had been Tom Cruise and "Tom Cruise's" real name had been Tom Hanks?)

[Billthedrill]

Since I turned off my TV visits to the supermarket grow increasingly interesting as the number of people referred to by only their first names in People magazine who I actually recognize dwindles to single digits.

The attraction is partly envy, I think, and a curiosity to know what it would be like to be young, rich, and famous. Personally I am perfectly happy being old, poor, and obscure.

As I grow older and grayer,
And totter toward the tomb
I find that I care less and less
About who is sleeping with whom.

Dorothy Parker

[theFIRMbss]

>I don't even need to know who Lindsay Lohan is

Check out my home page.
She's the upper right corner.
Circle gets the square!

[higgmeister]

Oh no! I've only heard of Hillary Duff and Ashlee Simpson.

I guess your circles make me Square.

[r9etb]

Eeesh.... Who put the blonde wig on John F'n Kerry?

[theFIRMbss]

>I've only heard of Hillary Duff and Ashlee Simpson

Prior to Lindsay Lohan hitting her late teens and going pop tart, she was really good in G-rated, family films. This is my favorite. If you ever need a fun film for an evening, it's worth the rental.