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noreply@blogger.com (Dating Tips For 2010) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:05:00 +0000

Google News Alert for: celebrities

Baldwin and Sisqo Voted Out of Celebrity Big Brother
TheDailyDust (satire) (blog)
American stars Stephen Baldwin and Sisqo became the latest celebrities to be evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house last night. ...
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Mirror.co.uk

Celebrities unite world to raise £20million for Haiti earthquake relief
Mirror.co.uk
By Adrian Butler 24/01/2010 It was the night the superstars of music and film joined together to bring a ray of hope to the victims of the Haiti earthquake. ...
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Celebrity free Australian of the Year
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia has turned its back on the craze for celebrities, with this year's Australian of the Year likely to be a new face for many. ...
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Controlling the message of celebrity violence
Times Daily
The celebrities' stories are tragic, and can serve as teaching tools to spread awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault, but they also are a ...
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Celebrity notes for Sunday, Jan. 24
The Desert Sun
EARLY DEPARTURES: Because of the rain, several celebrities will not be able to play today's final amateur round. Tom Dreesen, Kevin Nealon, Tommy Thayer and ...
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Celebrities linked to prescription drugs in portraits made out of pills
Monsters and Critics.com
By Iain Burchell Jan 24, 2010, 8:05 GMT Celebrities such as Michael Jackson whose lives were ended or blighted by prescription drugs are depicted in these ...
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Baldwin: Bowers 'using the forces of darkness' to win CBB
Ireland Online
But the pretty housemate had an easy ride, when the overly-enthusiastic men started guessing celebrities before she even had to act. ...
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OnTheFlix

Twilight's Taylor Lautner To Compete In Direct TV's 'Celebrity Beach Bowl'
OnTheFlix
They say that the 4th Annual DirectTV "Celebrity Beach Bowl" Super Bowl event is going to take place in Miami,Florida next month,and will also include other ...
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Creating your own distinct fragrance
Atlanta Journal Constitution
As consumers grow weary of supporting the scents celebrities like, there's a chance they just may decide to invest in what they like. ...
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SAG Awards 2010 List of Nominees
HULIQ
Celebrities including Alec Baldwin, Sandra Bullock, Tina Fey and George Clooney started walking onto the red carpet at approximately 3pm PST Saturday ...
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Buy Cheap Sunglasses in Designer Styles

noreply@blogger.com (Dating Tips For 2010) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:37:00 +0000

Buying cheap sunglasses does not necessarily mean that you are getting poor quality sunglasses. You can easily get cheap sunglasses on line from all the popular designers. The online prices for sun glasses are much cheaper than you would pay in a regular store and you have a much wider selection of designer sun glasses to choose from.

When you check out the line of cheap sunglasses, you do must do your home-work to make sure these sun glasses are not cheap quality. If you are shopping online, you do require to look at the photos of the cheap designer sunglasses, but you also require to read the accompanying descriptions. The frame is an important part of the sunglasses. Plastic frames won't last as long as metal frames, so you require to make sure the designer sun glasses offered for cheap prices are not plastic frames.
If the frame of cheap sunglasses is plastic, read on to see if it contains a metal rod. If so, then these would be lovely quality cheap designer sunglasses. It is possible to get designer sun glasses, such as Armani, Oakley, Maui Jim and others at cheap prices through the online retailers. This is because most of the online sites selling designer sunglasses do not over an overhead. If they do, they don’t have a regular store and probably operate out of their homes. This savings of rent and salaries comes back to you in the form of cheap prices.

With the cheap prices charged for sunglasses online, you can now walk out in style wearing designer sunglasses. No one has to know that they are cheap sunglasses and no one will know unless you tell them. Each of the cheap designer sunglasses carries the signature brand on the lens to let you know that you do have authentic designer sun glasses.

You also require to look at the color of the lenses. Choose one that you like and that you will be able to see through clearly. A quantity of the designer sunglasses have polarized lenses and this is a great feature because it cuts down on the glare of the sun. Even when buying cheap sunglasses, you can still choose the color of the lens and you don’t must sacrifice quality for price.

Buying cheap sunglasses doesn’t necessarily mean that you are buying bad sunglasses, but you must do your home-work.

Choose the Right Hair Style For you

noreply@blogger.com (Dating Tips For 2010) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:03:00 +0000

Among all our choices, choosing a stylist is one of the most important. Why is it so? Because a stylist creates your picture, the way people think about you when they meet you. Lovely stylist can help you get something, OR anyone you require.

Every now & then they must choose something in our lives. It may be a dress, a automobile, or a job place. Nevertheless, all the time they require to secure ourselves from the mistakes that can ruin our lovely mood, or health.

Sedu hairstyles are not only the style number-one in the spring-summer season 2006, they are very demanding as to the skills of the stylist. So, if you require to have Sedu hairstyle, you ought to have the best hairstylist you can get.

Moreover, a lovely stylist is always on top of the fashion news & knows all latest trends. So, if you choose a stylist correctly, you will be able to get any hair style you require, including the hottest ones, like Sedu hairstyles.

Here are some useful tips about what should you look at when choosing a stylist.

Tip #1: Ask for recommendations

There's one options of asking people the address of the stylist:
1.    You may ask a mate, relative, or coworker about the stylist;
2.    You may basically bump in to some one with a lovely haircut in the street & ask the address of their stylist.

The easiest way of finding a stylist is asking some one whose style you like where they have got such a wonderful haircut. People are usually so intrigued about being noticed that they are only glad to share the information.

Some people believe that mate or coworker may give you false information so that the stylist won’t slip you a quantity of the secrets he/she have heard from your mate or coworker. But I believe that it is utter nonsense. Your friends obviously won’t tell the stylist something they haven’t already told you. In the same way, coworker knows very small about you as well as you do about him. So, there is very small possibility that you will listen to bad things about you.

Moreover, lovely stylist should remain silent about the information he/she heard from his clients. In this meaning he/she plays the part of a priest in confession. Not to mention, that a lovely stylist cares about his/her reputation that includes the ability to hold their tongues.

Tip#2: Learn the salon from inside out

When you have finally found the salon, you ought to learn more about its staff, its services & overall reputation.

Tip#3: Get personally acquainted with the stylist

You require to do the following steps:
1.    Study the salon from outside;
2.    Look carefully how customers are treated in the salon;
3.    Learn whether the salon have some training programs for stylists to be at their top form;
4.    Try to sit in the reception area to know how the business is running;
5.    The general customer-friendly appearance is the main thing about the lovely salon.

Usually you ought to be able come to any of the stylists in the salon, & the level of the work will be the same.

Times when in the city or town was only one barber are in the misty past. Today lovely salon usually has from two to whatever number of stylists. All of them should have the same skills, representing the working traditions of the salon & its level of service.

There is also very simple check of the stylist’s skills. Come to a stylist when he/she isn’t doing anything & ask to show his/her razor. If it isn’t in their gizmo belt or on their station ready for use, turn & go.

Lovely stylist should have all his/her instruments at hand. This shows that he/she respects your time & his/her time, & is always ready to do the job.

Tip#4: Discuss your future haircut

When you’ve finally decided about some particular salon & have booked an appointment, you require to have a thorough consultation with the stylist about the following topics:
•    Your face shape;
•    Your hair type;
•    Maintenance of your hair;
•    Your abilities to style at home;
•    What you like about your hair;
•    What you don’t like about it;
•    Length you’re expecting to lose during the cut.

Tip #5: Make sure you’re getting the haircut you require

Such keypoints indicate main difficulties you ought to overcome by doing a haircut. If the stylists makes 5 minute monologue about how he/she thinks you ought to cut your hair without listening to your thoughts, turn around & go. Don’t permit to be talked in to something you don’t like.

When you’ve discussed the haircut & decided on something particular, watch how the stylist makes a cut. Lovely stylist will automatically ask you about the length BEFORE he/she starts the cut.

If you see that the haircut appearing is not what you’ve discussed with the stylist, don’t be afraid to stop the system immediately & have another discussion. By this you secure that the stylists understands you correctly, & you will have the hairstyle you require.

If the stylists makes the same mistakes when you come for the second time, don’t hesitate & go to another salon.

Tip#6: Study your feelings during the haircut

This one is very important, as the main thing about new haircut is a lovely mood. You may call me superstitious, but I believe that if you feel comfortable during the haircut your hair will be healthier & stronger.

If you feel one hundred percent comfortable during the cut, & no single hair is pulled down & no water splashes ruin your make-up, then the stylist is pro & you are lucky to find him/her.

Now you are prepared to find the best stylist possible & have the exact haircut you require. You are now entirely sure that you will have absolutely Sedu hairstyle with the skilled & professional hair stylist.

So, let’s look through our tips one times more to be sure they haven’t missed something.
To find a stylist you require:
•    To find s lovely salon;
•    To look how the salon is run;
•    To check customer service;
•    To study carefully stylists’ skills in the salon;
•    To be sure that the pre-cut discussion is dialogue where you speak & listen to some advice;
•    To see that the cut is done in the way you require it look like;
•    To feel comfortable during the cut.

Celebrity Love

noreply@blogger.com (Dating Tips For 2010) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:20:00 +0000

There is no doubt that love for some celebrity exists within us all. This isn’t the traditional definition of love but defined by an excessive admiration for a famous person whom they will probably never meet. The use of “love” is appropriate here as they who love celebrity tend to exhibit signs of undue influence by those highly visible. Famous people, the non-elected representatives of the human race, have always held some influence over the masses. In the days before mass media, tv sets and computers fame was circulated orally, carried by the gossipy nature of social beings. Today, they open our eyes and cannot avoid these people. Of coursework, in a developed society entertainers are necessary. They laugh and sometimes cry at a quality performance. Our memories are seared with images, movies and songs which have touched us, frightened us and stimulated us. They dramatize the political, the romantic, the nice and bad. They see in them the potential for perfection of man or woman as an expression of utopian ideals of love and success.

Yet, have they gone far? How much influence should they have over us? Our choice of clothes, jewelry and hairstyle, our languages and ideas are often areas that they look toward celebrities to define. If you deny this then you are exceptional; the rest of us are invariably, more susceptible. Our culture has become saturated with celebrity influence. They watch their every move including who they are with and what they do. They absorb their politics and gobble up their quotes. They think about what it may be like to be that beautiful, rich and powerful. Fame is an aphrodisiac or so it seems to the unrecognized. Today they have TomKat(Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes). Yesterday it was Bennifer(Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez). Public Interest in these people is frighteningly obsessive in nature. After all, their claim to fame is usually based on pretense or non reality. They are the constant pretenders, illusionists with screens as their canvas.

The entertainment value of a celebrity stretches beyond the screen or stage and they are wholly aware it. They are witness to carefully arranged relationships, sudden sightings in sports arenas and controversial quotes days before a new movie or show opens. They appear on your screen suddenly seemingly not to promote themselves but attempting to come across as natural, likable, clever and funny. Sometimes they get a glimpse in to what sure celebrities are like. Unfortunately, it is usually when they do something wrong. Drugs, infidelity and physical assaults are a few areas where celebrities have slipped in their public presentation. Mug shots and unflattering photos of famous people are the funds of entertainment news outlets. Being a celebrity has its drawback in this regard as they are monitored as closely as governmental heads of the biggest nations on earth. Alas, the power of celebrity is here with us to stay. Or is it? Can they teach our kids who the chancellor of France is before they describe the history of Madonna? If they can’t, The united states will become a nation of uninformed celebrity worshippers numb to the more important realities of the world.

Celebrity Beauty Secrets

noreply@blogger.com (Dating Tips For 2010) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:18:00 +0000

What’s the Secret?

You are probably wondering how celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, Jessica Simpson & Hilary Duff look so beautiful all the time? How does their hair always look so perfect and well-conditioned?

Well the secret is in the tools, the products and the stylist.
You can generate these looks at home, and three of the best tips is:- the less time you spend on it the better it will look. Now you are probably wondering how, but if you think it takes 8-20mins to straighten your hair, you may start to believe me.

Here’s some great tips that you can use at home that will help you to look even better. These tips come not only from personal experiences but also from the celebrity stylists, who help to generate a great red carpet look.

How to get that “Going to the Oscars” Glamour

So here they go, read on for the ultimate in celebrity hair tips.

Whenever you see a picture of a celebrity on the red carpet, you are probably thinking how amazing they look. And what you can see is a hairstyle that has taken months of planning and trips to the stylists in order to look absolutely Hollywood perfect.

Before the sizable event, the celebrity will consult with their stylist about how they require to look, but also ask advice from their hairdressers on how to look up to date, but also sexy and feminine.

Create Great Curls

Those who kept up with the times on the red carpet this year went for sizable Hollywood curls, with an extra rich colour and shine. To recreate this look here are some tips on how to curl your hair so you can look as elegant.

If you have bought yourself some pricey straighteners, or you are thinking about it, why not think about the idea of curling your hair with straighteners? You can get more controllable curls which are far less hard to manage than your natural hair is!

Try:-

1. Make sure that your hair is semi-straight, or if not straighten it.
2. Spray on some heat-protection spray and then divide your hair in to sections. The fewer the number of sections the tighter the curls will be.
3. Take the straightener and clamp it over the top of the section, then whilst pulling down the straighteners turn the straightener round. To produce a tighter curl clamp harder with the straighteners and pull harder when you bring it down.
4. Do not brush your hair after you have done this, but basically tease through with your fingers.
And add some shine spray.

Another way to curl your hair that always creates great celebrity styles hair effect is to use some heated rollers. The type of rollers that you ought to get should depend on how long and thick your hair is, and how tight the curl that you require to accomplish is.

For short narrow hair try using a straightener (the above technique) or tongs, for thick medium length hair to use some medium sized heated rollers and for long hair I would use some sizable velcro rollers. Try using these on wet hair and then drying off with a hair dryer (be sure to have plenty of hair grips on hand however).

The most perfect thing about celebrities hair is that it always appears in perfect condition. think, can you recall every seeing Jennifer Aniston with her hair looking messed up?!
Plenty of celebrities will have plenty of deep conditioning treatments at their salon before the sizable event. These treatments will vary from Destroy Restructuring to Deep Conditioning and Detoxifying.

There's plenty of high street products out there that are suitable for home use and you can pick them up on the high street for reasonable prices. I would always recommend that you look on the back and see the list of ingredients, the more chemicals it's in it, the worse it will be for your hair in the long run.

You may wish to think about trying some organic haircare products, which are not always as pricey as you think, and with organic followers like Gwyneth Paltrow and Elle McPherson you will be in great company!

Always check with the salon about which treatment they think will be right for you, because not all of them will be suitable for your hair type.

Or indeed for a special event such as a prom or a ball, why not go down to your local hairdresser or beauty salon and have a hair wrap or mask? These may be pricey but will definitely get you the look that you desire and it’s worth treating yourself for a special event.

Recall, you are as special as any of those celebrities and you can look like a star!

Becoming A Guest On Top Tv Talk Shows

noreply@blogger.com (Dating Tips For 2010) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:14:00 +0000

Producers make an instant assessment of you in thirty seconds--or less. When you get that coveted call from a producer, you are not *talking* to him: you are auditioning. You are being screened to be accepted or eliminated as a guest on their show. How can you pass the audition?

The phone rings. You listen to an authoritative voice say, *Hello, I am the producer of...Good Morning The united states or Oprah, or Larry King Live* or any other top talk show, you name it. This is your huge moment, the break you have been waiting for. After you catch your breath what do you do?

Secret #1: Ask Before You Speak

Before you even open your mouth to start pitching yourself and your story to the producer, ask them a simple query: *Can you tell me a small bit about the kind of show you envision?* In other words, ask the producer the angle they is planning to take.

Second, five times you listen to the producer's reply, you can gear your pitch to the type of information he is seeking. Listen closely to the angle that he is interested in and tailor your points to it. Publicists often use this process to get their clients booked on shows. They *get* before they *give* - so they are in a lovely position to tell only the most relevant information about their client.

Doing so has three advantages. First, it gives you a moment to overcome the shock and to collect your thoughts.

Follow the advice of jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie: *It's not how much you play. It is how much you leave out.* Keep your list of talking points by the phone when you call a producer (or a producer calls you), so you'll be succinct. You will already have rehearsed your points so that they'll sound natural and inviting. Be prepared with several different angles or pitches, different ways to slant your information. *Nobody gets on these shows without a pre- interview,* says publicist Leslie Rossman. *Be a great interview but don't worry about the product you require to sell them because if you are a great guest and you make great TV, they'll require you.*

Secret #2: Wow the Producers with Brevity

Secret #3: Prove You are Not a Nutcase

And keep in mind the words of Robert Frost: *Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and cannot, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.*

Three way to tell if you are being zealous is that you are hammering your point at top speed with the energy of a locomotive pulling that toot lever non-stop. I recall a man calling me up about how they was single-handedly taking on Starbucks - who, they felt, had completed him wrong. They wanted me to promote his cause. While this could have been a great David versus Goliath type story, they was long on emotion and short on facts. Some statistics or figures would have tempered his mania.

If you area nutcase on the air, the producer will lose their job. What constitutes a nutcase? You may think it is a positive trait to be enthusiastic (and it is), but somebody who is excessively zealous about his passion is thought about a nut. Best-selling author and screenwriter Richard Price talks about this phenomenon as *The dangerous thrill of goodness.* They says, *What happens is you can get excited by your own power to do lovely.* Don't get carried away by this thrill.

When you are talking to a producer speak for 30 seconds or so and then check in by asking, *Is this the kind of information you are looking for?* Listen for other verbal cues, such as encouraging grunts, or *uh huhs.*

But they also never checked in with me to see if they had my interest. By talking loudly and barely pausing for a breath, they appeared to be a man who would not take direction well. His single-mindedness was off- putting, not engaging.

Contributors to the popular radio show *This American Life,* hosted by Ira Glass, have taken to calling the wrap-up epiphany at the finish of a story, *The Huge Point.* This is the moment that the narrator gives his point of view on the story in an attempt to elevate it from the mundane to the universal.

Secret #4: Can You Mark *The Huge Point?*

Another radio personality, Garrison Keillor, is a master at it. They tells long, rambling stories (not lovely advice for you), then ties up all the story strands in a coherent and satisfying way. As a great guest, you require to illuminate your story with a huge standout point that helps the audience see the significance of your story in their world and the world at massive. than hitting them over the head with a two-by-four, you require to share your insights with a feather-like touch. By framing your story you alert the producer to the fact that you are a thinker and can contribute great insights and clarity to a story thus increasing its appeal.

Addicted To Being Famous

noreply@blogger.com (Dating Tips For 2010) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:10:00 +0000

Question:

Are Narcissists addicted to being famous?

You bet. This, by far, is their predominant drive. Being famous encompasses a few important functions: it endows the narcissist with power, provides him with a constant Source of Narcissistic Supply (admiration, adoration, approval, awe), and fulfils important Ego functions.

Answer:

The picture that the narcissist projects is hurled back at him, reflected by those exposed to his celebrity or fame. This way they feels alive, his existence is affirmed and they acquires a sensation of clear boundaries (where the narcissist ends and the world begins).

There is a set of narcissistic behaviours typical to the pursuit of celebrity. There is nothing that the narcissist refrains from doing, no borders that they hesitates to cross to accomplish renown. To him, there is no such thing as "bad publicity" – what matters is to be in the public eye.

Because the narcissist equally enjoys all types of attention and likes as much to be feared as to be loved, for instance – they doesn't mind if what is published about him is wrong ("as long as they spell my name correctly"). The narcissist's only bad emotional stretches are during periods of lack of attention, publicity, or exposure.

The narcissist then feels empty, hollowed out, negligible, humiliated, wrathful, discriminated against, deprived, neglected, treated unjustly and so on. At first, they tries to receive attention from ever narrowing groups of reference ("supply scale down"). But the feeling that they is compromising gnaws at his anyhow fragile self-esteem.

The narcissist is not interested in publicity per se. Narcissists are misleading. The narcissist appears to love himself – and, , they abhors himself. Similarly, they appears to be interested in becoming a celebrity – and, in reality, they is concerned with the REACTIONS to his fame: people watch him, notice him, talk about him, debate his actions – therefore they exists.

Sooner or later, the spring bursts. The narcissist plots, contrives, designs, conspires, thinks, analyses, synthesises and does whatever else is necessary to regain the lost exposure in the public eye. The more they fails to secure the attention of the target group (always the largest) – the more daring, eccentric and outlandish they becomes. Firm decision to become known is transformed in to resolute action and then to a panicky pattern of attention seeking behaviours.

The narcissist goes around "hunting and collecting" the way the expressions on people's faces modify when they notice him. They places himself at the centre of attention, or even as a figure of controversy. They constantly and recurrently pesters those nearest and dearest to him in a bid to reassure himself that they is not losing his fame, his magic touch, the attention of his social milieu.

Truly, the narcissist is not choosy. If they can become famous as a writer – they writes, if as a businessman – they conducts business. They switches from three field to the other with ease and without remorse because in all of them they is present without conviction, bar the conviction that they must (and deserves to) get famous.

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They grades activities, hobbies and people not according to the pleasure that they give him – but according to their utility: can they or cannot they make him known and, if so, to what extent. The narcissist is one-track minded (not to say obsessive). His is a world of black (being unknown and deprived of attention) and white (being famous and celebrated).

Granted to Superinteressante Magazine in Brazil

Mistreating Celebrities - An Interview

A. As far as their fans are concerned, celebrities fulfil three emotional functions: they provide a mythical narrative (a story that the fan can follow and identify with) and they function as blank screens onto which the fans project their dreams, hopes, fears, designs, values, and desires (wish fulfilment). The slightest deviation from these prescribed roles provokes giant anger and makes us require to punish (humiliate) the "deviant" celebrities.

Q. Fame and TV shows about celebrities usually have a large audience. This is understandable: people like to see other successful people. But why people like to see celebrities being humiliated?

When the human foibles, vulnerabilities, and frailties of a celebrity are revealed, the fan feels humiliated, "cheated", hopeless, and "empty". To reassert his self-worth, the fan must establish his or her moral superiority over the erring and "sinful" celebrity. The fan must "teach the celebrity a lesson" and show the celebrity "who's boss". It is a primitive defense mechanism - narcissistic grandiosity. It puts the fan on equal footing with the exposed and "naked" celebrity.

But why?

Q. This taste for watching a person being humiliated has something to do with the attraction to catastrophes and tragedies?

A. There is always a sadistic pleasure as well as a morbid fascination in vicarious suffering. Being spared the pains and tribulations others go through makes the observer feel "chosen", secure, and virtuous. The higher celebrities rise, the harder they fall. There is something gratifying in hubris defied and punished.

A. The reporter "represents" the "bloodthirsty" public. Belittling celebrities or watching their comeuppance is the modern equivalent of the gladiator rink. Gossip used to fulfil the same function and now the mass media broadcast live the slaughtering of fallen gods. There is no query of revenge here - Schadenfreude, the guilty joy of witnessing your superiors penalized and "cut down to size".

Q. Do you believe the audience put themselves in the place of the reporter (when they asks something embarrassing to a celebrity) and become in some way revenged?

A. Israelis like to watch politicians and wealthy businessmen reduced, demeaned, and slighted. In Macedonia, where I live, all famous people, regardless of their vocation, are subject to intense, proactive, and destructive envy. This love-hate relationship with their idols, this ambivalence, is attributed by psychodynamic theories of personal development to the child's emotions towards his parents. Indeed, they transfer and displace plenty of negative emotions they harbor onto celebrities.

Q. In your country, who are the celebrities people love to detest?

Q. I would seldom dare asking some questions the reporters from Panico ask the celebrities. What are the characteristics of people like these reporters?

A. Sadistic, ambitious, narcissistic, lacking empathy, self-righteous, pathologically and destructively envious, with a fluctuating sense of self-worth (possibly an inferiority complex).

6. Do you believe the actors and reporters require themselves to be as famous as the celebrities they tease? Because I think this is happening...

A. The line is narrow. Newsmakers and newsmen and women are celebrities merely because they are public figures and regardless of their true accomplishments. A celebrity is famous for being famous. Of coursework, such journalists will likely to fall prey to up and coming colleagues in an limitless and self-perpetuating food chain...

7. I think that the fan-celebrity relationship gratifies both sides. What are the advantages the fans get and what are the advantages the celebrities get?

A. There is an implicit contract between a celebrity and his fans. The celebrity is obliged to "act the part", to fulfil the expectations of his admirers, not to deviate from the roles that they impose and they or they accepts. In return the fans shower the celebrity with adulation. They idolize him or her and make him or her feel all-powerful, immortal, "larger than life", omniscient, superior, and sui generis (unique).

Above all, the ability to vicariously share the celebrity's amazing (and, usually, partly confabulated) existence. The celebrity becomes their "representative" in fantasyland, their extension and proxy, the reification and embodiment of their deepest desires and most secret and guilty dreams. Plenty of celebrities are also role models or father/mother figures. Celebrities are proof that there is more to life than drab and method. That pretty - nay, perfect - people do exist and that they do lead charmed lives. There is hope yet - this is the celebrity's message to his fans.

What are the fans getting for their trouble?

8. Why are celebrities narcissists? How is this disorder born?

The celebrity's inevitable downfall and corruption is the modern-day equivalent of the medieval morality play. This trajectory - from rags to riches and fame and back to rags or worse - proves that order and justice do prevail, that hubris invariably gets punished, and that the celebrity is no better, neither is they superior, to his fans.

It would seem reasonable to assume - though, at this stage, there is not a shred of proof - that the narcissist is born with a tendency to create narcissistic defenses. These are triggered by abuse or trauma during the formative years in infancy or during early adolescence. By "abuse" I am referring to a spectrum of behaviors which objectify the infant and treat it as an extension of the caregiver (parent) or as a mere gizmo of gratification. Dotting and smothering are as abusive as beating and starving. And abuse can be dished out by peers as well as by parents, or by adult role models.

No three knows if pathological narcissism is the outcome of inherited traits, the mournful result of abusive and traumatizing upbringing, or the confluence of both. Often, in the same relatives, with the same set of parents and an identical emotional environment - some siblings grow to be malignant narcissists, while others are perfectly "normal". Surely, this indicates a genetic predisposition of some people to create narcissism.

They all search for positive cues from people around us. These cues reinforce in us definite behaviour patterns. There is nothing special in the fact that the narcissist-celebrity does the same. However there's three major differences between the narcissistic and the normal personality.

Not all celebrities are narcissists. Still, a number of them surely are.

The narcissist, in contrast, is the mental equivalent of an alcoholic. They is insatiable. They directs his whole behaviour, in fact his life, to receive these pleasurable titbits of attention. They embeds them in a coherent, biased, picture of himself. They uses them to regulates his labile (fluctuating) sense of self-worth and self-esteem.

The first is quantitative. The normal person is likely to welcome a moderate amount of attention – verbal and non-verbal – in the form of affirmation, approval, or admiration. much attention, though, is perceived as burdensome and is avoided. Destructive and negative criticism is avoided altogether.

The narcissist then proceeds to harvest reactions to this projected picture from relatives members, friends, co-workers, neighbours, business partners and from colleagues. If these – the adulation, admiration, attention, fear, respect, applause, affirmation – are not forthcoming, the narcissist demands them, or extorts them. Money, compliments, a favourable critique, an appearance in the media, a sexual conquest are all converted in to the same money in the narcissist's mind, in to "narcissistic supply".

To elicit constant interest, the narcissist projects on to others a confabulated, fictitious version of himself, known as the False Self. The False Self is everything the narcissist is not: omniscient, all-powerful, charming, clever, rich, or well-connected.

So, the narcissist is not interested in publicity per se or in being famous. Truly they is concerned with the REACTIONS to his fame: how people watch him, notice him, talk about him, debate his actions. It "proves" to him that they exists.

The narcissist goes around "hunting and collecting" the way the expressions on people's faces modify when they notice him. They places himself at the centre of attention, or even as a figure of controversy. They constantly and recurrently pesters those nearest and dearest to him in a bid to reassure himself that they is not losing his fame, his magic touch, the attention of his social milieu.