Word: stardom
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...NAME IS, EMINEM: Six years ago, hip-hop producer Dr. Dre introduced Snoop Doggy Dogg to the big time with the video Who Am I (What's My Name)?; now he's ushering a new rapper, named Eminem (a.k.a. Marshall Mathers), toward possible stardom. Eminem, who is white, has a video titled My Name Is that's all over MTV (and a new CD, Slim Shady, that's out this week). His video channel-surfs and name-drops, lampooning Bill Clinton and Marilyn Manson. He's not looking for trouble, just laughs...
...Robin's self-consciousness, her sense that she doesn't belong in the same room with the rich and famous, will play well on TV. She's as addled as anyone in her audience would be in fast company, so of course viewers identify with her. And grant her stardom...
...Newman saw a drama in Pollock's mating dance around the canvas on the floor that normally isn't present in a painter's address to his work. It was solipsistic and histrionic at the same time--broody like Brando, vulnerable like James Dean. Pollock's fate was pure stardom, granted by the media and then riveted in place by early violent death and by the posthumous market for his work...
...Americans' pinning on "Free Truman" buttons this summer, they were still--on some level--refusing to let the media dictate the substance of our lives. Just ask the woman in the seat in front of me about this movie that allowed the star to give up his artificial stardom; she couldn't stop gushing, `This is the best movie I've ever seen...
...worthy of being featured on paper placemats and splattered with ketchup by fourth-graders attending birthday parties across the nation. Your face will be prominently featured next to "Demi Moore: Chess Club (Vice-President)." Dreams do come true. Trouble is, since a bachelor's degree is no prerequisite for stardom, they'll probably be using your high school mug shot instead--making your last-ditch effort to join Model U.N. a bit useless...