THE FAME OBSESSION

We are a nation obsessed with fame. But as the poets have told us time and time again too much handling will destroy any object of desire. Fame, at least in the old-fashioned stands the test of time sense is now almost impossible to achieve and may in fact no longer exist. Andy Warhol once observed that fame was going so cheap everyone would have their 15 minutes. In today's world Warhol himself probably couldn't have hung on for 15 seconds»....

-LA Times
Dec 16 2007