Google+ A Tangled Rope: How To Build Your Own Celebrity

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

How To Build Your Own Celebrity

Zoe Williams at CiF (where else) almost gets it right in regards to modern celebrity

My comment:

Well, yes. The 'celebrity' in popular culture is a created artefact with a 'real life' as well-constructed as any other fiction role, say on film or TV screen.

If the audience demographic for that particular entertainment niche altered so that it became more of an audience-puller to be gay, then you would have a situation where many heterosexuals would be pretending to be homosexual in order to gain that audience.

The wise 'celebrity' will play their given or chosen role well, the foolish one will really believe it is all real and probably crash and burn as a result.

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