Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Friday's Klips: Fame fries your brain

My column* is posted at the usual place. I've been watching what public success does to some people:
What is it about celebrity which makes people insane? Is it the lack of privacy which causes them to go around the bend? Is it that there are too many sycophants and not enough sensible moms? How can ordinary people be turned into such stupid, selfish, thoughtless, dangerous creatures?

I don't know if I have all the answers (heh. That would put me in a category where Sally Field could use my name in vain at the next Emmys, I suppose), but I've at least assembled a few human symptoms.

*which used to be printed each Friday by the local rag, but now is looking for a nicer, cleaner, better-built home where participles don't dangle, and the five W's are regular occupants on the news pages.

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