Thursday, January 18, 2007  Who Wants to Be a Celebrity?  This
was only one line out of a hundred memorable lines in the 1999
movie Fight Club, which so happens to be one of my favorite
movies. Ironically, though, the line was delivered by Brad Pitt,
who is both a "movie god" and a millionaire. (Though thankfully
not a rock star, which is more than could be said for his Fight
Club co-star, Jared Leto.)  I find this quote interesting
because I think that it has something to do with the explosion
of celebrity snark these days. It's hard to be a celebrity these
days. Just ask Mel Gibson and Michael Richards. Or Tom Cruise,
Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Ben Affleck. I mean, isn't the
career path of Paris Hilton best described as "We build her up,
so we can tear her down."  It used to be that the stars were
looked up to. People wanted to be them, wanted to be like them.
That's what made them stars. Do you think Michael Jordan would
have been in all those McDonald's or Hanes ads if the corporate
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