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I'll bite, what's your problem with celebrities?

As for insight, whenever watching movies or tv it's important to remember that the actors are portraying characters written by one or more other people. The characters may be likeable, heroic, talented, genius or any other of a host of good character traits, but the actor is acting, pretending to be something they're not. Whether actor, musician, anchorman, etc. people are just people. Being put under the spotlight by tabloids, tv, and their own P.R. often does weird things to them. Most notably, turning them into the biggest assholes on the planet.
I suspect the whole punk/alternative/resistance-to-selling-out thing in music is a response to bad experiences by some after meeting their 'heroes'. If certain bands were true to their artist claims and declarations that they have not 'sold out', they wouldn't be signed to a recording contract. And they definitely wouldn't be testifying before congress about the dangers (to their wallets) of trading music on the internet.
Oops, off on a tangent.
Too much of anything is bad. Worship of people who barely merit acknowledgement of existance is horrible.
My 2 pence.

edit: when I started typing this there was only one response here. after reading secretmethod70's post I think I missed the point of the article. Oops. I agree with him, but I think the points I made, however irrelevant, are still valid.

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