Sentence examples for celebrity system from inspiring English sources
The same publisher has reissued Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity in America ($16.95), Schickel's study of the ascendency of the celebrity system and how it has transformed American society, for better or worse (mostly worse).
"Do I think it's great that we have a celebrity system where some people matter and some people don't?
Unlike the sneakers and glasses that caused such a fury in the '80s and '90s, iPhones didn't originate in the celebrity system.
The media celebrity system is kept aloft not just by powerful handlers but by layers of semi-anonymous toilers — press agents and talent bookers, and, well below them, headwaiters, bouncers, and chauffeurs — all of whom help build and guard a mystique of which they, as much as anyone, are the victims, since most of them are disposable.
Shirley Temple was not a very good actress, but she had one clear advantage over her modern equivalents: when her life in Hollywood ended, the celebrity system had no further use for her and she was ex-communicated, like a member of a cult.
That's because the poetry world, like most areas of American life, has its own peculiar celebrity system — and if the rewards of that system rarely involve gift suites filled with swag from Jean Patou, they remain tempting enough to keep grown writers hustling.
In this emptiness a number of parasitic organisms sprung up including sites like Gizmodo and TechCrunch, micro-celebrity systems like Instagram and Vine, and sites catering to a different consumer, sites like InfoWars and Stormfront.
The decision by Mr. Pinard, a prominent member of Quebec's celebrity star system, to speak publicly about being gay set off Quebec's most publicized coming out.
But for regular, non-Hollywood celebrities, the system works remarkably well as a filter. 1 – number of followers the user has. 2 – number of tweets they've made.
The cult of celebrity, the electoral system and nostalgia for bygone days all play a role, she says.
The researchers then put the technique to a more difficult test: They constructed the average using only those images of a celebrity that the system had failed to recognize during the baseline performance test.
