Comment Box: What Makes a Celebrity?

Comment Box: What Makes a Celebrity?
Where is the threshold that delineates between a "mere" athlete and a celebrity athlete, or a "mere" politician and a celebrity one? Is it when they start taking their own words and actions too seriously in public? Is rising (or sinking) to celebrity-ness in the eye of the beholder? Or are only show biz entertainers (movies, TV, radio, music, etc.) eligible? -- from last week's Celebritology Live discussion Andy Warhol -- recognizing our society's growing adulation of celebrity and our own pretensions to public renown, in 1968 predicted, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." So to answer your question in the simplest terms possible, I suppose celebrity could loosely be defined as someone who holds our interest for longer than that 15-minute allotment. It's not quite that simple, though. Rather than quantity, I think what you're asking about is quality. What is it that elevates
Published 8/25/08 by


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