Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy Book

Do you wonder where it's all going to end? Does the word 'celebrity' sound like a great name for a fifth horseman of the apocalypse? Do you doubt there's even time to build a fallout shelter? Then this book is for you: an invaluable primer to the celebriscape, a world expanding twice as fast as the universe it inhabits. Celebrity is a coruscating, hilarious, thinking person's guide to a world in which it is considered reasonable that Angelina Jolie advises on the Iraqi reconstruction effort, Charlie Sheen analyzes 9/11, and in which Jude Law's views on the Taliban are taken seriously. Anatomizing every aspect of our crazed world, Celebrity tackles the big topics, including 'Celebrity Activism - when celebrities care', 'Celebrities and the Middle East: a troubled region's brightest hope?', and 'Celebrity Religions: who do the worshipped worship?'.Celebrity also provides indispensable resources: a glossary of common words or expressions - such as 'She's suffering from exhaustion' (She has a prescription painkiller problem), 'She has a prescription painkiller problem' (She has a coke problem) and so on - and a diagram of a generic celebrity entourage, clearly explaining the precise role of every nutritionist, lawyer and canine beautician. Celebrity is a roadmap, a survivalist's guide, a Rosetta Stone for our times: you are not equipped to engage with the world without a copy.Read More

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  • Foyles

    These days, entertainers no longer just entertain: they advocate dubious 'religions', work for the United Nations, get face-time with heads of state and monopolise problems they are infinitely qualified to solve - problems like Africa, the Middle East, and AIDS. We stand at the beginning of a bright new chapter in human history. Feast your eyes, then, on Sharon Stone's peace mission to Israel, on a world where Angelina Jolie advises on the Iraqi reconstruction effort or Charlie Sheen analyses 9/11, and in which Jude Law's attempts to establish contact with the Taliban are reported without irony. Celebrity is a roadmap, a survivalist's guide, a Rosetta Stone for our times: without a copy you are not equipped to engage with the world...

  • ASDA

    A guide to the celebriscape a world expanding twice as fast as the universe it inhabits. It tackles topics such as: 'Celebrity Activism - when celebrities care' 'Celebrities and the Middle East: a troubled region's brightest hope?' and 'Celebrity Religions: who do the worshipped worship?'.

  • 0099532050
  • 9780099532057
  • Marina Hyde
  • 1 April 2010
  • Vintage
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
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