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The Price of Fame
"What we really look to celebrities for today is the reassuring moral tale. `Oh look, he just got $10 million for his new movie--but his wife is leaving him.' `She's so famous, everybody loves her; too bad she drinks.' There's a booming industry now in proving celebrities can be just as miserable as the rest of us" (Neimark). Jill Neimark describes fame right to the point. On one hand a celebrity has fame and fortune but along on the other hand comes the negative aspects. Celebrities do have the status to motivate people, the money to look stunning, and the wealth to make change in the world. However, their lives are less then perfect, and this price of fame is shown through the stress, depression, substance abuse, rumors, continuos media scrutiny, and the inability to enjoy a normal, private life. Celebrity's lives show...
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