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...city councilwoman's re-election campaign, but in terms of celebrity status, even locally, they are indeed "nobody." Vaz, as a surprise for his fiancé, had hired Celeb 4 A Day, which provides personal paparazzi to private individuals who want to experience some of the trappings of fame. (Friends played the fans for free...
...trend is driven by the twin obsessions with chronicling one's life and experiencing fame. "We live in a culture where if it's not documented, it doesn't exist," says Josh Gamson, a University of San Francisco professor of sociology who studies culture and mass media. "And if you don't have people asking who you are, you're nobody." University of Pennsylvania sociologist David Grazian, who wrote On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife, calls personal paparazzi reality marketers, who make the act of being photographed more meaningful than the actual photos. "The goal...
...more than 375 million copies since the first volume, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,†was released in 1997. The seven installments, which have been translated into 65 languages and are available in more than 200 countries, propelled Rowling to fame and riches as the 13th-wealthiest woman in the world...
PATSY CLINE AND TAMMY Wynette were fine, thank you, but for Country Music Hall of Fame producer Ken Nelson, the orchestral, slickly produced Nashville sound of the '50s needed an update. As the understated, hands-off country guru at Capitol Records for 20 years, the California-based Nelson defined the raw, twangy style that became known as the Bakersfield sound, first with the 1952 Hank Thompson hit The Wild Side of Life and later by discovering Merle Haggard (above, at left) and Buck Owens...
...People were ready to accept Sarkozy's style as symbolic of individual success, fame, and fortune so long as it held the promise of being available to everyone," Rozès explains. "The context has changed. The French are worried about the future, and this presidential style now seems out of order." All of which leaves Sarkozy's with a particularly vexing problem: how does a sitting President of France marry a famous beauty without making it into a really big deal...