The national obsession with the rich and famous is scarcely new.
Whip-smart lyricists, the Thorntons are perfectly capable on their own of subverting cocaine rap's obsession with how rich and attractive dealing makes one.
In this singing, dancing shrine to herself, she proves it by exploiting our culture's masochistic obsession with the rich and famous (2 30).
In this singing, dancing shrine to herself, she proves it by brilliantly exploiting our culture's masochistic obsession with the rich and famous.
In this singing, dancing shrine to herself, she proves it by brilliantly exploiting our culture's masochistic obsession with the rich and famous (2 30).
It was the epoch of Americans' obsession with getting rich, speculation in the financial markets, the influence of money and lobbyists in Congress, and rising income disparity between the rich and middle class.
"In an age of cultural obsession with the rich, chronicled by reality TV (Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills), I wanted to tell a deeper, cinema-verité story of an extraordinarily wealthy family that had the ambitious goal of building the biggest house in America.
The rival Northern Alliance was run by Tajiks and Uzbeks and backed by India; and the one thing you can never underestimate is Pakistan's obsession with bigger, richer, better-armed India.
Yet if one thing unites them all it's a sense of fandom: an obsession with music's rich past combined with an equally burning enthusiasm for the present.
Lauren Greenfield, who made the documentary \u201cThe Queen of Versailles,\u201d returns to the subject of outrageous fortunes with \u201cGeneration Wealth\/strong/strong> (July 20), a historical essay-film about the latter-day obsession with the ultra-rich.
