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From a review of A Short History of Celebrity by Fred Inglis.
That is a role that celebrities—from robber barons to rock stars—have served ever since, combining “knowability with distance” to make themselves at once intensely familiar and strangely remote. It is an alchemy capable of producing a sacred aura, but one that can also foster envy, resentment and prurient ill will.
Intensely Familiar, Yet Strangely Remote