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When interviewed about being seen as this generation’s sex symbol, Megan Fox said, “When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image. The only thing that is still private and still mine is my actual physical body.” The more you are watched, the less control you have over your reputation.
Sherry Ning • Stop Looking At Each Other
•When a proper noun is already plural, the usual rule for possessives applies: The Smiths’, Rolling Stones’, the United States’ policies
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
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“Manson girl” hair look: overgrown, brunette, middle-parted.
Amanda Montell • Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Having a lot of social media followers or fame doesn’t guarantee it will sell. The singer Billie Eilish, despite her 97 million Instagram followers and 6 million Twitter followers, sold only 64,000 copies within eight months of publishing her book. The singer Justin Timberlake sold only 100,000 copies in the three years after he published his book.... See more
Elle Griffin • No One Buys Books
The overexposure of pop stars, to a fault, is routine. We know perhaps a bit too much about J.Lo’s pop contemporaries, too, and look: It’s not like Mariah Carey and Justin Timberlake haven’t also pushed their own post-peak vanity projects to weak receptions in recent years. But J.Lo has, for much of her career, been a curiously unsympathetic figure... See more
Where Did It All Go Wrong for J.Lo?
How 9 Popular YouTubers Helped Trump Win a Second Term
bloomberg.com
Gwyneth Paltrow, Natalie Portman, Brooke Shields, Anne Curry, Meredith Vieira, Bianna Golodryga, Maureen Dowd, Arianna Huffington, Tina Fey, Maria Bartiromo, Katharine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, Carly Fiorina, Sherry Lansing, Kathy Freston, Maria Shriver, and Marianne Williamson.