Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy

Do you wonder where it’s all going to end? Does the word\n‘celebrity’ sound like a great name for a fifth horseman of the\napocalypse? Do you doubt there’s 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 person’s\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 Law’s 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 region’s brightest hope?’, and ‘Celebrity Religions: who\ndo the worshipped worship?’.Celebrity also provides indispensible\nresources: a glossary of common words or expressions – such as\n‘She’s 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 survivalist’s guide, a Rosetta Stone for our times: you are not\nequipped to engage with the world without a copy.

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