But I was trapped, drawn in by the adulation, the fame, the endless Haribo.
But among these reminders of fame and endless fun there were names of many people who were no longer in his life, of girlfriends and friends who had been taken by cancer and others who had died of various causes through the years.
The whole saga is definitely worth the watch, and Risner seems genuinely panicked throughout the entire situation but considering all the swag Chewbacca mom walked away with after her video went viral, you can't rule out that this whole thing might just be an elaborate prank on all of us to bring on the viral fame and endless likes.
Men are certainly under attack from all sides at the moment -- whether it's the endless list of celebrity bad boys or the sociologists who have come to fame by pointing out the statistical impotence of men at large.
Mr. Schreiber's Barry is an incisive study in a subject that has since become the stuff of endless analysis: the pathology of fame, of what happens to someone who sees himself reflected and distorted in the eyes (or in this case, ears) of multitudes.
In the afternoon, Mr. Weidenfeld was in the recording studio, shepherding a bug-eyed and foul-mouthed Jay Johnston (of "Mr. Show" fame) as he did an endless stream of line readings for "High School USA!" with slightly different inflections each time.
Those statistics might come as little surprise to those of us raised on the endless cultural narrative of do-it-yourself fame – a world of Pop Idol spin-offs and overnight success stories, driven by the public voice.
It hardly seems surprising that professional cyclists, despite their wealth and fame, would be vulnerable to depression: the endless scrutiny, the life lived on a knife edge between optimum fitness and over-training, the constant flirtation with loss.
In Ukraine, the pro-western Yushchenko of Orange Revolution fame soon lost all popular purchase after endless economic bullying by Russia and its political allies.
Newcomer in the top slot, Riley Carter Millington found himself involved in endless selfies and group shots and quickly embraced his new fame.
