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Sick of celebrities: Will there be a backlash against the beautiful people? 39 Articles

  • 1 of 39

    by Jessie Bahrey

    While I personally am weary of the amount of media attention paid to so-called 'beautiful people,' I don't believe we as a society can wean ourselves from the obsession with the lives of celebrities, even those famous solely

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  • 2 of 39

    by John Tonner

    " Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?" (Socrates)



    Will there be a backlash against celebrities?.

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  • by Kim Robinson

    I AM SICK, SICK, SICK OF THE "BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE."

    "The beautiful people" are beginning to make me sick. When Katie Holmes's haircut makes national news, and Paris Hilton's jail time is more significant than life-changing world

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  • 4 of 39

    by Ted Sherman

    No backlash at all. Never, never! As long as the news media, TV and the tab mags feed on celeb gossip, the common people will continue to be fascinated and keep the beautiful people in the spotlight. This has been true since

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  • 5 of 39

    by Martin Brown

    When you look at the definition of celebrity you get a famous person or some one of renown and fame, but what are celebrities now?
    Someone who is famous for five minutes and then thrown back into the cold hard ether of the real

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  • 6 of 39

    by Angela S. Young

    I'm not surprised at all that there is so much interest in this topic. I too am sick to death of hearing about celebrities. Who cares how often Britney Spears goes to rehab. Who cares that Lindsay Lohan is being a 'bad girl'.

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    by Carol Noble

    I would like to think there would be a backlash against celebrities, because I admit I am fed up with the media pressing the opinions and activities of so-called "celebrities" in my face. These "beautiful" people may be good

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  • by Jade LaFemme

    "God help you if you are an ugly girl
    course too pretty is also your doom
    cause everyone harbors a secret hatred
    for the prettiest girl in the room
    and god help you if you are a phoenix
    and you dare to rise up from the ash
    a thousand

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  • 9 of 39

    by Michelle Nelson

    What has happened to us? Have our lives become so dull that we have to look to the stars' lives to enrich our own ? Or, are we so jealous that we all secretly hope that celebrities fail so we can feel the satisfaction of our

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  • 10 of 39

    by Kat Derrig

    I do not think there will ever be a backlash against celebrities, or the celebrity culture. And I do not think America will ever get sick of them; love them, hate them, or love to hate them, yes, but we never get sick of hearing

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  • 11 of 39

    by Lindsey S

    Why are americans so pop-culture obsessed? Why does the E! channel even exist? Our country is going down the shitter, the middle class is getting wiped out, most of americans are in massive unsecured debt, we're torn in half

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  • 12 of 39

    by Teri Stone

    I feel that the heading of this article illustrates one of the biggest problems in our society: the definition of beauty is solely based on physical appearance. I see this article's heading as two distinct sections. One: Sick

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  • 13 of 39

    by Ron Hughes

    We do love our celebrities, don't we? The cult of celebrity is lovingly maintained by the popular media and all those who profit handsomely from this often bizarre propensity of human nature. Many who might otherwise have little

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  • 14 of 39

    by Courtney Caswell-Peyton

    Digging Through The Dumpster For A Lipstick Smear and Other Ludicrous Backlash



    Why "we" are sick of celebrity? Umm. First of all, who is "we?" Is that a global assumption, a national assumption or a personal one? If we are going

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  • 15 of 39

    by Rhonda Miller

    We Have to feel sorry for Celebrities don't we?
    I mean constantly in the spotlight, no private life, and people watching their every move.
    They have it so hard the poor little lambs and all that money doesn't seem to help.
    well

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  • 16 of 39

    by Kim Guynn

    I already believe that there is a backlash against celebrities. Although I do find it interesting that people associate being beautiful with being a celebrity. There are many celebrities that I would hardly call beautiful.

    As

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  • 17 of 39

    by Jackson Slade

    The impact that movie stars create

    Movie Stars of today and yesterday........

    Why are some in the acting profession today, who have star status trying to see just how degrading they can be with their personal behavior? Most can't

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  • 18 of 39

    by Margaret Andrew

    Were you popular in high school?Me neither,and yet I still wanted to be friend's with the head cheerleader.That's what Hollywood is,it's one big sad High school,made up of Star's(Jock's)and Band geek's(US).
    Why do we care about

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  • 19 of 39

    by z.mccann

    I don't suppose people will ever stop wanting to look at beautiful people but human beings are fickle creatures, what is beautiful today may not be thought so tomorrow.

    The word celebrity defines as "the state or quality of being

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  • 20 of 39

    by Micah Reeves

    Beautiful People. Do they have it easier or harder then us?

    "Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful", a popular Revlon commercial states. This is an important testament on us as a society. In our perspective, they have it all.

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