celebrity

Although it isn't always talked about in these terms, it seems to me that celebrity is more or less a zero sum resource. There's only room for so many people in our collective consciousness before there's no room for others or they get pushed out. It's probably measured to a degree by Q ratings...

A serious question, really. Since most celebrities seem to lend leftwards from the evidence I have seen, why is it most of the time when a celebrity enters politics it is on the Republican side? For example, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lynn Swan, Clint Eastwood. I can find very few...

Well, OK..you get to have dinner with all three of the Mythbusters! Here's the deal..the Dinner With Randi event at TAM4 is expensive. There is only one seat left at the table with Jamie, Adam and Kari. So, we thought, why not offer it to folks who don't have $1000 to spend? We're offering a...

Okay, so I'm cynical about celebrities lately but I think rightfully so. We're seeing people doing benefits and talking about doing benefits and it's painted as a big sacrifice on their part and I don't get it. It seems like it doesn't cost them anything overall and in fact it helps them. It...

Okay, Lifegazer put up your mitts and show yourself. You said you would denounce the buddha, and while his advice to me would be to pretend that you were once my mother, I am not a buddha. Put up, dude, go ahead, show us all how you have a greater philosphy than the buddha. Question One: Why...

I think it's conventional wisdom that being famous is more annoying than anything. Ok, maybe there's the price you pay for success and money. You can't be a successful actor or actress, the one who earns million, without being very famous. There are people, however, who are millionaires but...