Celebrity Culture

When Doing Good Lands You Among The TIME 100

Tijana Milosevic | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Time 100, Social Media, Mashable, Activism, Celebrity Culture, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Pete Cashmore, Doing Good, Social Activism, Impact News

Living in a society where personal projection, ego-management and soft-skills account for much of one's success, I wonder to what extent will celebrity status motivate future online activists?

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Americans Do Not Have An Unhealthy Obsession With Celebrities

Liz Smith | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Celebrity-Obsession, Celebrity, Liz Smith, Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity Culture, Celebrity News

Gossip and celebrity are the great luxuries of true democracy. They're the tawdry jewel in the crown of free speech and expression. Gossip about the famous or infamous is for leisure, for fun, for entertainment, for relaxation.

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Jon Hamm vs. Kim Kardashian: Who Do You Think Gets The Last Laugh?

Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Marilyn Monroe, Reality TV, Jon Hamm vs. Kim Kardashian, Jon Hamm Kim Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Jon Hamm, Lorelei Lee, Blonde Bombshell, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Celebrity Culture, Poll, Women News

Hamm's remarks don't seem very careless -- they actually seem pretty thoughtful -- and he didn't say Kardashian isn't successful.

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Why Artists Aren't Rock Stars

Kristen Hotham Carroll | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Celebrity Culture, Artists, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Visual Art, Celebrities, Arts News

Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Robert Mapplethorpe are all names I remember hearing as I was growing up. I would be hard pressed to find a 12-year-old who could name a living artist today.

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Seeking a More Cosmopolitan America

Paul Stoller | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: The Middle East, Reality TV, Foreign Travel, Education, Africa, World Politics, Economic Systems, Cultural Anthropology, Innovation, Higher Education, Relgious Beliefs, Celebrity Culture, Imagination, War in Iraq, Foreign Language Learning, Education News

The lack of volition to travel overseas corresponds to a shocking ignorance about other parts of the world. Contemporary students are notoriously ignorant of world geography. Many of them think that Africa, for example, is one country rather than a continent of 53 sovereign nations.

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Celebrity Culture, Media and Presidential Politics

Paul Stoller | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Reality Television, Michele Bachmann, Presidential Politics, Rick Perry, Reality TV Stars, Reality TV Culture, Rick Santorum, Gop Primary Election 2012, GOP Debate, Celebrity Culture, Election 2012, Politics, Media News

In this media environment, many pundits are compelled to reflect upon the nonsensical, which, in the end, gives the nonsensical a degree of public credibility.

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Celebrity Gods And That Blinding Warlock Sheen

Kelley Harrell | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Odin, Charlie Sheen, Sobriety, Isis, Celebrity Culture, Addiction, Yeshua Ben Joseph, Goddesses, Horus, Warlock, Demeter, Polyamory, Osiris, Mythology, Jesus, Collective Consciousness, Divinity, Persephone, Healthy Living News

We don't have earthly gods and goddesses to look up to anymore, but we do have the next best thing -- celebrities -- seekers of fame and fortune, whose lives are thrown into the awareness of almost every living creature in the modern world.

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Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It

Lewis Lapham | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Celebrity, Celebrity Culture, Politics and Celebrity, Politics News

The less that it is understood what politicians do, the more compelling the need to clothe them in an aura like Andy Warhol, one that you can only see on people you don't know very well or at all.

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Art with a Capital "F"

Steven Weber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media Culture, Art Business Models, Filmmaking, Arts Business, Celebrity Culture, The Arts, Entertainment News

In a media culture where cats batting balls of yarn get a larger audience than The Hurt Locker, artists don't bother to study in their fields, preferring to arm themselves with a cool, teeny camera and have at it.

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For Success, Embrace Your "Healthy" Narcissism

Yolanda Reid Chassiakos | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Success, Narcissism, Self-Esteem, Celebrity Culture, Self-Help, Healthy Living News

Not all narcissism is pathological -- "healthy" narcissism can help you to accept and love yourself, and work to make yourself the best possible you.

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Us Weekly's Freaking Out That Jon & Kate Are Yesterday's News

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Schadenfreude, Reality Television, Reality TV, US Weekly, TV Ratings, Divorce, Jon Gosselin, Kate Gosselin, Celebrity Culture, Jon and Kate Ratings, Jon and Kate Gosselin, Tabloids, Jon and Kate Divorce, Jon and Kate, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Media News

Us Weekly has profited enormously from the Gosselins' marriage failing -- producing six consecutive covers this summer featuring either Jon or Kate -- and they're not quite done feasting off that carcass' bones.

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Celebrity "Roadkill": A Black Box Warning for Physicians

Gary Cohan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Ethics, Michael Jackson, Dangerous Controlled Substance, Drug Addiction, Roadkill, Physicians, Celebrity Culture, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Doctor Shopping, Beverly Hills, Self-Esteem, Justice Department, Prescription Painkillers, Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Just Say No, Fame, Opiates, Drug Enforcement Administration, Deepak Chopra, Drug Abuse, Heath Ledger, Narcotics, Pain Medications, Hippocratic Oath, Celebrities, Hollywood, Black Box Warning, Entertainment News

How can a vulnerable physician resist the temptation to "bend the rules" for these "tabloid elites?"

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Michael Jackson's Death -- What Does it Say About Us?

Soren Gordhamer | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Media, Culutre, Twitter, Michael Jackson Death, Celebrity Culture, Pop Culture, Facebook, Michael Jackson Cardiac Arrest, Healthy Living News

Our culture puts celebrities on a pedestal and adores them, we seem to get more satisfaction when they fall -- and the harder the better.

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We Don't Blame Michael Jackson Because We Blame Ourselves

Etan Bednarsh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Simmons, Michael Jackson, Tyzon Zone, Michael Jackson Death, Britney Spears, Celebrity Culture, Dan Quayle, Joh Bobbitt, Jeffrey Dahmer, In Living Color, South Park, Entertainment News

Yes, it is sad that Jackson died as broken shards of a person, but it's sadder that he was once one beautiful whole who cracked under the pressure of our glare.

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