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Viral Disease Claims Another Casualty
Hamilton Nolan · 11/10/14 03:04PMCaity Weaver · 10/23/13 05:34PM
Controlling the Chaos of Fame: The Bling Ring and This Is the End
Rich Juzwiak · 06/14/13 02:21PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18qsx1otah31ljpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
If you want to wrap your head around the absurdity of celebrity in 2013, the New York Times Magazine's recent profile of Stalker Sarah is a good place to start. Sarah, 17, spends 40 hours a week hunting down celebrities so she can take pictures with them for little to no monetary profit on her end. From the profile:
Nathaniel Rich Is Different From You And Me
Tom Scocca · 04/23/13 05:33PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18lk3974ln9nnjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Disclosure. Disclosure! I like Frank Rich, based on my small but existent amount of contact with him in the course of my work. And as someone who is well-enough employed, in the unstable business of journalism, and who is still not too old to have maybe have a chance to eventually become better employed, I am also wary of Frank Rich. The former New York Times theater critic-turned-columnist, now a New York magazine writer and an HBO something-or-other, exists within a network of powerful goodwill and even more powerful professional obligation.
Charlie LeDuff Charged With Excessive Grittiness, Realness
Tom Scocca · 03/13/13 04:25PMThe Sheer Gall of Celebrities Demanding Privacy
Hamilton Nolan · 01/14/13 12:44PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18bhtttcs90b8jpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Last night, Jodie Foster, a famous actress who has been a famous actress for many decades, stood on stage at a glittery Hollywood awards show being broadcast around the world, and, in a lengthy, self-glorifying speech, in front of a crowd of the world's most famous people, asked for.... privacy. Is Jodie Foster clinically insane?
Lady Gaga's New Perfume Ad Features Tiny Men Exploring All Her Orifices
Caity Weaver · 07/17/12 05:26PMKaty Perry: 'I'm Tired of Being Famous'
Maureen O'Connor · 04/06/12 04:23PMTaylor Swift Thinks About a Million People Every Time She Gets Dressed
Seth Abramovitch · 11/18/11 02:19AMTaylor Swift is the subject of a probing 60 Minutes piece this Sunday, in which Leslie Stahl connects the crossover country sensation to the collapse of the European economy, Iran's secret nuclear weapons program, and an illegal baby-fighting ring in China. No, just kidding — it's about how pretty she is and how she makes nice songs about how the the boys on the football team never ask her to the sock hop. In this preview clip, Swift explains that she takes herself very seriously. As a role model! I mean as a role model. She takes herself very seriously as a role model. Take it away, Taylor! [60 Minutes]
Film School: Still for Suckers
Hamilton Nolan · 07/05/11 12:18PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18k1rtalqf83pjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Film school is the journalism school of people who can't write. It's a place where kids with vague dreams of "making projects" go to chill out for a few years and learn that you should never call a "film" a "movie." Then they come out and get a shitty job for little money that pays them purely in proximity to power.
Hackers Hit Guy Who Live-Tweeted Bin Laden Raid
Adrian Chen · 05/02/11 05:35PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18k1x5u1ctaj1jpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
33-year-old IT consultant Sohaib Athar was just hanging out on Sunday at home in Abbottabad, Pakistan, when he heard an explosion and a helicopter hovering above. He started tweeting what was going on, and ended up unwittingly live-blogging the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. Athar has become become such an internet celebrity that his website's been hacked.