The Importance of Being Famous: Behind the Scenes of the Celebrity-Industrial Complex
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In explaining the power of celebrity in modern life, Richard Schickel ranges through every realm of our culture–film, theatre, television, literature, art, the media, pop music, politics–for examples of how celebrity shapes our world and bends our minds.
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Schickel’s book is a good read. He may be long on film criticism at [...]
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“With The Apprentice, Donald Trump has gone beyond celebrity to become a true legend. He’s the one billionaire everyone recognizes, the only one whose name is its own global brand. But, for all the ink that’s been spilled about him, nobody’s ever fully captured the man¿until now.
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The year was 1974 and “That’s Entertainment,” the compilation film of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio’s most wondrous musical moments had just opened wide at theaters nationwide. For David Fantle and Tom Johnson, two St. Paul, Minnesota teenagers, it was a galvanizing experience.
When “That’s Entertainment” opened, their interest in the movies and the stars that were in them [...]
Gore Vidal is one of the most significant American writers of the second half of the twentieth century, having produced a large number of best selling novels, essays, plays and pamphlets which have impacted on major political and social debates for fifty years. He is both a serious writer and a television and movie celebrity, [...]
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