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Ben Stein's Last Column ........

Nie Trink Wasser

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How Can Someone Who Lives in Insane Luxury Be a Star in Today's World?

Beyond that, a bigger change has happened. I no longer think Hollywood stars are terribly important. They are uniformly pleasant, friendly people, and they treat me better than I deserve to be treated. But a man or woman who makes a huge wage for memorizing lines and reciting them in front of a camera is no longer my idea of a shining star we should all look up to. How can a man or woman who makes an eight-figure wage and lives in insane luxury really be a star in today's world, if by a "star" we mean someone bright and powerful and attractive as a role model? Real stars are not riding around in the backs of limousines or in Porsches or getting trained in yoga or Pilates and eating only raw fruit while they have Vietnamese girls do their nails. They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer.

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Hollywood "stars" have always been overpaid. Has Ben Stein JUST realized this? Duh.
 
A movie "star" is a person who puts bodies in theater seats and all of the ancillary profit models that fall into place behind it.

Nothing else.

I think Ben Stein is trying to justify his own time infront of the camera and separate himself from what his peers might term the "Limosine Librals."
 

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