We live in a world of still and moving images. We live in a fans' world made from bright colors and famous people. There are two big categories of people: those who live in the public eye and those who represent the public. The latter is hungry for images of the former and they can never get enough. The former is hungry for the admiration of the latter. From time to time, they do get enough of each other, but unfortunately the machine can't stop spinning once it started. They might as well get used to living with the fans and even taking advantage of them as much as they can.



The hunger for fame is expressed in a great demand for videos of celebrities. We come back home and we turn on the TV just to catch the latest videos of celebrities. It doesn't even matter at this point any more what those videos of celebrities contain, whether they are videos of celebrities doing something interesting or just videos of celebrities washing the dishes in their own house, for example. All we want to know is if they are the latest videos of celebrities because we want to get a sense of contemporary. We want to see the latest videos of celebrities in order to get a glimpse of what those people look like or think today, right now.

How do we get the latest videos of celebrities though? This is very interesting. Most times, journalists such as paparazzi and reporters working for a network get those vides of celebrities for us. They hide in bushes and camp out at night in front of the stars' houses just to get the latest pictures of celebrities. The effort is definitely worth for them. We are ready to pay good money just to get the latest pictures of celebrities. We are hungry for the latest pictures of celebrities and, like bulimics, we will take them in any quantities, at any time and pay much more than we can afford just to get access to the latest pictures of celebrities.

The stars do understand what we need from them and what we are ready to do to obtain access to their lives. They will even provide the latest pictures of celebrities themselves. That is how you get such pictures as those of babies and weddings -the stars themselves provide the latest pictures of celebrities of this kind. They are ready to sell a little bit of their intimacy in exchange for a good sum of money.

When we cannot get such videos, we will try to satisfy our hunger with movies of celebrities. We just want to see how they look like. So if we cannot have videos from their real lives, we will finally take all the movies of celebrities we can get. We will look for all the movies of celebrities that are running at the cinema and on TV. We will compare between the different movies of celebrities to see how they look like, to what extent their haircuts and styles have changed. We will compare between the old movies of celebrities and the latest movies of celebrities to see how much older our stars have become.

There is always madness around the movie theatres when the latest movies of celebrities come up. The latest movies of celebrities create quite a fuss on the news, even a bigger one than the latest war. I bet that more people have heard that Angelina Jolie will get married with Brad Pitt than those people who have heard about the recent border fights between Israel and Liban. The latest movies of celebrities are like a drug. They get people addicted.

The latest movies of celebrities are also an entire prosperous business. First there are all the materials that are published and shot in order to introduce to the public the latest movies of celebrities. Then there are all the advertisements that made in reference to the latest movies of celebrities. Last, but not least, there is the launch of the latest movies of celebrities. All the glitter and the gold of the premiers, all the gossip that comes together with it is just as attractive as honey to the bees.

Then, when the latest movies of celebrities are no longer the latest, but just take their place on the shelf of old memories, we cannot even understand any more what all the enthusiasm was for. We realize that we were interested in those things just because they were the latest movies of celebrities. Not because of their independent value.

Most people believe that the value derives from fame. Or, even if that is not their belief, they just do not trust themselves enough to evaluate certain things on their own. So they wait to see what is famous and well-known to get a clue about what they are supposed to be interested in and what they are supposed to like. They are the ones most fascinated by the latest movies of celebrities. They hear about the celebrities and they just assume good artists, good singers and good actors are supposed to be role models for them. After all, these people are in the news and if they weren't valuable they would not have made it to the headlines. If the latest movies of celebrities are not masterpieces, why is there so much interest in them? - This is the most natural question of all.

If people had more access to information and to different kinds of culture and entertainment, then they would be able to judge better what is valuable and what is not. They would no longer be interested only in videos of celebrities, but they would want to follow all sorts of other things. Come to think of it, perhaps videos of celebrities wouldn't totally lose their value as some actors do deserve their fame and fortune.