WE’LL ALWAYS ‘MEMBA’ STARS
‘Fame’ Study Shows We’ll Never Be Free Of Lindsay Lohan, Kim Kardashian
IT MAY BE TIME TO TOSS THE ADAGE THAT FAME IS FLEETING. A new study finds that fame “exhibits strong continuity even in entertainment, on television, and on blogs, where it has been thought to be most ephemeral.”
Sociologists who culled names of famous from newspaper archives found that “96 per cent of the people whose names were mentioned over 100 times in a year also written about at least three years before and would likely be written about in the next three years as well.”
“The large, large, large majority of people who get famous stay famous,” said McGill University Assistant Sociology Professor Eran Sho, who co-authored the study published in the American Sociological Review. “…“We’re basically coming out and saying not only is fame not (fleeting), it’s extremely sticky.”
Which explains why we can feel icky after a serious dose of star-gazing.
