What passes as celebrity ...

Anyone hear that Kim Kardashian got $600K to go to some club for New Year's?

 

And do what?

 

I just read that Demi Moore had a lesbian encounter with Brandi Glanville in 2009. Celebrities and reality sluts touch each other in pink places!

 

A beautiful mind.

 

Google people.

 

Nice.

 

First of all, as IJAG kinda touched on, reality TV is about unreality as it gets, featuring people who are richer, stupider, vainer, more handsome or beautiful, more quirky. more combative or who go to far more set-up-for-them parties than the vast majority of us, and are edited within an inch of spontaneity. I dabble in watching "reality TV" (Top Chef shows, Big Brother, Housewives shows when the wife forces me to), and it's for entertainment, escapism and to peek at a demimonde I wouldn't ever be a part of. Like any other entertainment, it's certainly possible to get too wrapped up in it. But that's always been the case in America; there's always been a means of escape that some people stay escaped with too much.

A true reality show would have a shot right now of someone like me, sitting at my laptop, with none of damn business in my other browser tab.

 

dooley, keepin' it real.

 

I don't know about a celebrity, but I'm a fuckin' rock star, for sure.

 

Awesome.

 

Celebrities are famous people. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (hey, I had to look up this Brandi Glanville character, didn't I?) drew nearly 2.6 million viewers last week, according to zap2it.com. The lowest-rated episode in the show's run drew roughly 1.6 million viewers. So If approximately a million people in this country watch you on television most weeks, and another 600,000 to 1.6 million watch you occasionally, I think it's fair to say you're famous.

Calling someone a celebrity is not a compliment. It's not an insult, either. It's just a fact. Celebrities are famous people. Strangers may recognize celebrities. Celebrities might be greeted by an admirer at a grocery store. Your weather guy might be a local celebrity. Elizabeth Smart is a celebrity because something terrible happened to her, and she's hardly alone. And the Internet has enough room for people who want to make it their recreation or even vocation to blog and read blogs about celebrities. Who's to say it's any better than reading old Sports Illustrated stories on the SI Vault, which is more my style?

 

As a point of discussion - Are 'fame' and 'celebrity' interchangeable?