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From an essay on the increasing “celebrotropism” of American popular culture:
We don’t yet have the technology to create a collective fantasy realm with the seamless verisimilitude of The Matrix, but this is another large beta step in that direction. Today as never before, tens of millions of American women inhabit Celebrity World. “My generation,” says Us Weekly editor Janice Min, who’s 35, “thinks of celebrities as their peers—like neighbors, or people you went to high school with. They’re on a first-name basis with them.”