Andy Warhol said, in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. But fame isn’t fleeting according to a new study.
This may be the only time I use “the media” as a collective. Normally I loathe the term. But according to a study on fame, the media and the public are keeping famous people famous by referencing them in a dog-chases-tail circle. The study conducted by Professors at McGill in Montreal and New York’s Stony Brook University found that once a person became famous they stayed that way, despite a perception that they went in and out of fame. Think about it. When’s the last time Julia Roberts made a movie? But she would still get mobbed in public and any writer can refer to her and everyone would get it. The study even shows someone well known for just being well known will stay that way even if their name is Kardashian or Hilton. It makes you wish Warhol was right, doesn’t it?
Can’t necessarily agree. How many musicians have hit the spot light only to as quickly become a member of the where are they now file and this happens to many others. Fame is truly about, once you’ve obtained it, can you maintain it, and many never do, with many others we truly wished they’d go away. Fame is also very much a personal prospective, introduce me to any highly visible or currently famous person, and I couldn’t care less. Introduce me to an unknown top notch heart surgeon, and maybe I’ll get excited. What the media consider fame, doesn’t even show up on my radar.
Whenever I shake my head at the gossip and trash that pass for truth and reporting I remember that for every Downton Abbey there has to be a Honey Boo Boo. The light/dark and yin/yang of the universe. Thank goodness.