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Celebrity Response to Haiti: Genuine, or PR?

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the government response was slow and inadequate — as we well know by now. The ensuing celebrity response was amazing. Photographs of Brad Pitt helping out really touched me. There’s something about when a celebrity really messes up in the eye of the public and then shortly thereafter does a tremendous act of charity that makes me wonder why said celebrity did it. 
Now the suffering in Haiti is in the midst of the celebrity cause.

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Famous, Rich and Beautiful Dig an Early Grave

If you are rich and pretty and famous you are tempting an early grave because a devotion to the surface, and not the core, leads to psychological dissension between the wanton self and the desirous of mind — according to a new University of Rochester study.  Perhaps marrying an ugly girl is, after all, the secret to carrying on a longer life.

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Loving the Machine Aesthetic

Le Corbusier was one of the greatest architects of the Twentieth Century. 
He believed houses were machines and his early industrialization of building homes as metrics of functionality — instead of as just basic shelter — forever changed the way we consider both Art and science today.

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Concentric Fame and the Coreless Onion

Have you noticed famous people live concentric, insular, lives that restrict their ability to relate to real people or to find footing in the common dreams of Jedermann?  Yet, somehow, the famous believe they represent us all from their suffocating cocoon of Yes People and manufactured adoration.  The famous spin in circles within circles with no direction or grounding.

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Michael Crichton Cheated Us Out of Goodbye

SuperGenius author and entertainer Michael Crichton died this week. He was 66. Cancer killed him.  Unfortunately
— Michael kept his illness a secret from the public — and we take
issue with that selfish hiding as we argued earlier this week on RelationShaping:

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The Danger of Celebrity Twinning

Lisa Marie Presley — the single spawm of King Elvis — announced this week she is pregnant with twins.

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After Heath Ledger: Does Celebrity Kill You?

Heath Ledger is dead at 28.  If he were not famous — would he deserve the celebrity mega-media coverage being blanketed upon us in the wake of his wake?

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