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Celebrity Worship Syndrome
Is America’s Obsession With Stardom Becoming Unhealthy?
ABC News ^
| 23 Sept 2003
| Keturah Gray
Posted on 09/25/2003 6:30:08 PM PDT by demlosers
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posted on
09/25/2003 6:30:09 PM PDT
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demlosers
To: demlosers
Feeling a little let down now that Ben and Jen's wedding is on hold?Let me think that over a sec...uh, nope. Couldn't care less.
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posted on
09/25/2003 6:37:28 PM PDT
by
GATOR NAVY
(20 years in the Navy; never drunk on duty - never sober on liberty)
To: demlosers
There was a show on PBS TV a while back about the 20th century being the age of celebrity. It was with Clive somebody. I think he was Australian. Anyway, this mass marketing of "talented" people is really quite amusing. I have long felt that to "act" in movies is something that almost anyone can do. Each scene only lasts a few minutes and there can be retakes.
The sad part is that our politics and religion have been taken over by the celebrity mania also. People who have no real qualifications or passion for what they are doing seem to be everywhere you look.
To: demlosers
"Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell..." I have no idea who Colin Farrell is, and perhaps that's a good thing. I wonder if my soul mate Oprah knows who he is?
;^)
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posted on
09/25/2003 6:45:11 PM PDT
by
randog
(Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
To: GATOR NAVY
Who are Ben and Jen?
To: demlosers
Celebrity worship is a devastating sickness that robs the victim of contact with reality. It is fostered by that black box called a TV that tries to make our own lives seem second-rate.
I hate celebrities, and I pity the poor lost creatures who worship them and indulge themselves in their soul-robbing daily addiction of television.
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posted on
09/25/2003 6:52:04 PM PDT
by
firebrand
To: demlosers
When are they running for governor?
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posted on
09/25/2003 6:54:38 PM PDT
by
Roscoe
To: demlosers
After surveying more than 600 people, Houran's team of researchers from universities in the United States and Britain recently identified a psychiatric condition they have dubbed "celebrity worship syndrome." It's an unhealthy interest in the lives of the rich and fabulous. According to the researchers, about a third of us have it to some degree. Gee, doesn't the percentage of the American population that is registered for the 'Rat party also falls into the one third range? Hmmm.....
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posted on
09/25/2003 6:56:01 PM PDT
by
Bob J
To: Roscoe
It seems that celebrity worship is only bad when the celebrities are Republicans or Conservatives, and they are winning!
To: demlosers
Is it the people or the press who have the problem I wonder?
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posted on
09/25/2003 7:06:41 PM PDT
by
chance33_98
(This tagline made from recycled ideas, no animals were harmed during the typing of it)
To: GATOR NAVY
The article should have been a little more generic. What they call "celebrity worship" is only a part of the situation. Actually, what is happening is that many people are reacting to distant figures as if they were people in their own lives.
Perhaps this has always occurred to some extent; however, with the tube it has become endemic. There is no real explanation other than a human one for the preoccupation with celebrities --whether the feelings be positive or negative.
I sometimes feel some have stronger feelings and understanding about the celebrity than they do about their immediate family and acquaintances.
To: demlosers
With the repercussions of 9/11, the ailing economy, and the war in Iraq, following the glamorous lives of these celebrities offers a diversion in the same way that Golden Age movie stars like Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, and Bette Davis did during the Great DepressionThere is one big difference between what is happening now and what took place during the golden age of Hollywood. That is that today's movies suck. The 1930's and '40's actually produced films worth watching. Also the celebrities were somewhat less disgusting. Maybe not by much on a personal level but at least their bad behavior wasn't worshiped like it is today.
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posted on
09/25/2003 7:18:46 PM PDT
by
foolscap
To: shrinkermd
Actually, what is happening is that many people are reacting to distant figures as if they were people in their own lives.Good point, and that's why I couldn't care less about whether Ben and Jen get married-I realize it has absolutely nothing to do with my life. But you're right, there's a lot of people out there who can't see that and take this stuff personally. It's beyond me.
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posted on
09/25/2003 7:24:36 PM PDT
by
GATOR NAVY
(20 years in the Navy; never drunk on duty - never sober on liberty)
To: demlosers
becoming?
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posted on
09/25/2003 7:36:49 PM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: demlosers
Puts me in mind of when our high school band marched in the Hollywood Christmas parade. We're from Western Pa. We were in the bleachers along the red carpet and the locals were practically salivating over the celebrities. Our group could have cared less. When our band stepped onto the red carpet and started marching, however, we went wild! You would have thought the brightest stars in Hollywood were in front of us! The 'celebrities' were a let down, but our kids made us proud!
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posted on
09/25/2003 7:48:35 PM PDT
by
sneakers
To: demlosers
When a moron like Arnie can not only run for governor, but succeed in getting Republican support is proof of something very amiss in this nation.
To: D. Brian Carter
Who are Ben and Jen? Aren't they the grungy lefties who used to make ice cream before they sold out and got really really rich?
To: demlosers
I think I have Celebrity Disgust Syndrome.
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posted on
09/25/2003 9:18:46 PM PDT
by
Brett66
To: demlosers
Whenever we play "Trivial Pursuit", I totally bomb any celebrity Qs.
My daughter, trying to embarass me, asked me to specifically name ANY movie of the past year in which I could identify a single actress.
I failed, though after a while I did sputter out "Liz Ullman, Lord of the Rings," which I think is fairly close to something. (you know, the pouty girl with the kissy lips).
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