Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy
Marina Hyde
Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy
Marina Hyde
Do you wonder where its all going to end? Does the word\ncelebrity sound like a great name for a fifth horseman of the\napocalypse? Do you doubt theres even time to build a fallout\nshelter? Then this book is for you: an invaluable primer to the\ncelebriscape, a world expanding twice as fast as the universe it\ninhabits.Celebrity is a coruscating, hilarious, thinking persons\nguide to a world in which it is considered reasonable that Angelina\nJolie advises on the Iraqi reconstruction effort, Charlie Sheen\nanalyses 9/11, and in which Jude Laws views on the Taliban are\ntaken seriously. Anatomising every aspect of our crazed world,\nCelebrity tackles the big topics, including Celebrity Activism \nwhen celebrities care, Celebrities and the Middle East: a\ntroubled regions brightest hope?, and Celebrity Religions: who\ndo the worshipped worship?.Celebrity also provides indispensible\nresources: a glossary of common words or expressions such as\nShes suffering from exhaustion (She has a prescription\npainkiller problem), She has a prescription painkiller problem\n(She has a coke problem) and so on and a diagram of a generic\ncelebrity entourage, clearly explaining the precise role of every\nnutritionist, lawyer and canine beautician.Celebrity is a roadmap,\na survivalists guide, a Rosetta Stone for our times: you are not\nequipped to engage with the world without a copy.
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