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...Brangelina ERA does not lack celebrity advocates: Scarlett Johansson for Barack Obama, George Clooney for Darfur, Matt Damon for clean water. Whether the famous are effective advocates for good is debatable, but Madison Avenue long ago proved they are great advocates for buying stuff. Ironically, considering the tonnage of celeb-inspired purchases choking our landfills, this also makes them ideal pitchmen for the environment. After all, green issues are about consumption: what to eat, how to build your house, what junk to fill it with and how to dispose...
...their 10 years together, Rob and Nick have not entirely left their mainstream roots; they have become favorites of the advertising world--with commissions from Absolut Vodka and Land Rover--and the celeb set, selling their work to Elton John, David Beckham and other boldface names. The pair's next project: portraits--shot with an 886-lens camera of their own design. In this partnership, the future is light...
...being from Corpus Christi, Texas doesn’t already make Bret A. Johnston a celeb, he has just published his second book entitled “Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer.” He has also contributed to various anthologies, is regularly featured on National Public Radio, and currently directs Harvard’s Creative Writing Program. In 2006 he was named one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” gifted young writers, which means that he’s also really young...
...Nagy agrees that being approached on campus often feels like an invasion of space. “People have the right to say what they want, but they should also respect people’s privacy and leave them alone when they ask to be.” THE CELEB AFFECTSometimes though, it seems that the time is always and the place is everywhere. Plus, the proliferation of religious groups lining the Square cannot only be attributed to evangelicals and feminist Christians. Instead, the large number of proselytizers infiltrating the “Peoples’ Republic?...
...streets and in courts for intruding on their lives and trading on their images, some regular folks, from parents hosting teen birthday parties to Gen Xers out on the town, have decided that the attention could be fun--and worth paying up to $1,500 for. Cowher launched Celeb 4 A Day in Austin in November and is expanding to Los Angeles this month and San Francisco in February. There are similar companies, like Private Paparazzi in San Diego and Personal Paparazzi in Britain, and wannabe big shots in other places have taken matters into their own hands, hiring freelance...