Justine Bateman
Författare till Fame: The Hijacking of Reality
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- 113
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- #173,161
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- 3.0
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Reading Bateman's "Fame" is like listening to one long, breathless download by a smart and insightful person. This isn't a memoir about being famous, but it still provides a visceral sense of what it's like to be the person standing on the red carpet in front of the cameras -- and what it feels like later on, when the cameras are pointed at the person behind you, not at you.
My favorite takeaway was her observation that fame isn't something a person can control. It's a "sheath" which is "sprayed" on someone by others. And that sheath then influences every single interaction that person has with others, whether they want it to or not.
There's a fair amount of repetition of ideas, which is one of the reasons I didn't rate the book higher. Sometimes the urgent, breathless tone became a bit much ("breathless" as in saying quite a bit before stopping to actually breathe in again, not as in a Marilyn Monroe whisper), but Bateman did succeed in creating a sense of intimacy, of wanting to talk directly to the reader as a friend. So many people are star-struck by fame, yearn for fame, are scornful of fame, but she is one of the few who can describe what's like on the other side, and she urgently wants others to understand how it works. . . because it's not like what most of us imagine.… (mer)