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When A Fan Gets Close to Fame
Bloomsbury Publishing
March 2005
256 pages
ISBN: 1582343160
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Journalist Michael Joseph Gross takes us deep into the
world of celebrities and the people who love them. Why are we so obsessed with fame? Even if we don't read
People, we all crane our necks to see the stars. As a
teenager, Michael Joseph Gross amassed a collection of
about four thousand autographs by writing letters to
celebrities and world leaders. The collecting fever broke
when he grew up, but his fascination with fandom remained. In Starstruck, Gross travels from Hollywood to Dollywood,
from Neverland to Middle Earth; he crashes a Kid Rock
concert with a sixty-six-year-old fan, sprints after Mick
Jagger with a professional autograph collector, gets the
inside scoop from Mary Hart on covering Hollywood for
Entertainment Tonight, visits the world's largest comic
book convention with the hobbits from The Lord of the
Rings, and discovers what fans look like from the
perspective of celebrities-who, paradoxically, often seem
to be among the most starstruck of us all. Sympathetic,
funny, and endlessly curious about stars and fans alike,
Gross gives us a winning portrait of how our dreams of fame
shape our everyday lives.
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