In a World Where We Recognize Celebs by Smell
The Washington Post has it up to the proverbial "here" with the state of modern celebrity:
Celebrity "journalism" is in overdrive — more magazines, more pictures, more everything. I defy anyone, no matter how young and/or hip, to pick up the latest issue of Star or US Weekly or People and, without reading the captions, recognize every celebrity in every photograph. You can't, because you're not supposed to. We need to mint a batch of brand-new celebrities every week to throw into the maw.
That may be true, but one would be delusional to think we couldn't meet such a challenge. Give us a blindfold and a Star, and we need only wipe our asses with its pages to correctly name every featured face.
