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Celebrity Reexamined as Grotesque Crippling Disease Other Cultural Revelations
Penguin
July 2001
On Sale: July 3, 2001
256 pages
ISBN: 014100195X
EAN: 9780141001951
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Non-Fiction
Whether you lust after it, loathe it, or feign apathy toward
it, fame is in your face. Cintra Wilson gets to the heart of
our humiliating fascination with celebrity and all its
preposterous trappings in these hilarious, whip-smart, and
subversive essays. Often radical and always a scream, Wilson
takes on every sacred cow, toppling icons as diverse as
Barbra Streisand, Ike Turner, Michael Jackson, and-for
obvious reasons-Bruce Willis. She exposes events like the
Oscars and even athletic jamborees as having grown a
"tumescent aura of Otherness." Wilson's scathing and
irresistible dissections of Las Vegas as "the Death Star of
Entertainment," and Los Angeles as "a giant peach of a dream
crawling with centipedes" pulse with her enlightened
rejection of all things false and vain and egotistical.
Written with her trademark zeal and intelligence, A Massive
Swelling is the antidote for the fame virus that infects us all.
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