Monthly Archives: February 2012
14/02/12 Icons and Immortality
By definition, celebrities seem larger than life. As I write about in Celebrity Culture and the American Dream, they take on roles in real-life dramas that play out in public. Sometimes it is only when they die that we remember that they are only human. Perhaps part of the lure of celebrity is the quest [...]
Tags: celebrity death, icons, whitney houston
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