Easily dismissed for its most hackneyed attributes — its frivolity, its celebrities — it is damned as the cauldron where all that is ephemeral and crass in the culture is brewed.
So, while little girls may dream of becoming a star and get treated like a princess, in the world of celebrities, it still looks like its good to be king.
To draw a few of the top-10 players, which would increase the tournament's chances of drawing a larger group of A-list celebrities, it may have to consider reducing its unique 90-hole format to 72 and cutting its four-course rotation to three.
Once an unvalidated surgical procedure has become common, widely known in the general population, and popular among "celebrities", it is regarded as too late to evaluate its efficacy.
For celebrities, it changes a lot.
Celebrities, it is alleged, can be hypocrites.
Celebrities, it seems, can't get enough mouth-on-mouth action.
But like many celebrities, it has a dark side.
TMZ not only follows celebrities, it creates them.
And some celebrities, it seems, have only one foot.
Companies provide them for the same reason they distribute swag to celebrities: it drives sales.
