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Public figures, authors, artists and journalists have long written about their experience of dying. But why do they do it? And what do we gain?
Thanks to algorithms, outrage often snowballs.
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Algorithmic forces fuel cancel culture. Paradoxically, they’re also used to rehabilitate those who have been canceled.
All the research points to fortune, fame and security not necessarily leading to living happily ever after.
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Research suggests Harry and Meghan would be well and truly in their right minds to be sick of royal fame and fortune.
Beyoncé arrives at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating “China: Through the Looking Glass” on May 4, 2015, in New York.
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From a quiet start to cultural dominance, Beyoncé’s work over the last decade is groundbreaking. But it is also filled with questions and contradictions.
Everyone loves Dolly Parton, a celebrity with a sky-high Q score of marketability.
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Hit podcast Dolly Parton’s America starts with the premise that she is among the most familiar and beloved celebrities in the US, based on a marketing index called a Q score. Who would be our Dolly?
Dead famous: Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean in a still from Giant (1964).
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Even in death, men are able to earn far more than women.
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The vast emissions caused by these individuals suggest that a very small share of humanity has a very significant role in global warming.
Best friends forever? Coleen Rooney (left) and Rebekah Vardy in happier times.
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We might lap up the spectacle of two high-profile women fighting publicly, but when do you ever hear about men having ‘cat-fights’?
Celine Dion at this year’s Met Gala. Camp is not merely a matter of glittery dresses, but a mode of performance.
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Many of the gowns and costumes at this year’s Met Gala attempted to capture the essence of camp, and in trying to do so missed the point of camp entirely.
Is this real life? Kim Kardashian rendered in wax at Madame Tussauds.
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Don’t expect to see any less of the Kardashians. Sorry about that.
Jodie Whittaker.
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As another actor speaks of pressure to look the ‘right’ way, research reveals that this pressure is prevalent at all levels of the industry.
GOOP founder Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Celebrities are turning away from the fields that made them famous and becoming amateur experts.
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Both female beauty icons posted ‘problematic’ tweets about the Israel-Palestine conflict in 2014. But they weren’t received the same way.
Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey appear during a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Dec. 8, 2007.
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Throughout American history, being a black celebrity has been a political act in and of itself. When viewed through this lens, the transition into politics for someone like Winfrey is more natural.
Ernest Hemingway with a bull near Pamplona, Spain in 1927, two years before ‘A Farewell to Arms’ would be published.
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A newly published batch of Ernest Hemingway’s letters could change the way we think about the author’s influences, relationships with other writers and views on race.
The Paradise Papers reveal much of Michael Hutchence’s estate is tied up in offshore tax havens.
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Rock has long railed against The Man, but problems with the taxman highlight its internal contradictions.
The princess of Wales is pictured in Bonn, Germany in 1987.
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To succumb to conspiracy is to be human.
Online cosmetics tutorial.
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In two years Kylie Jenner has gone from socialite to the head of a leading cosmetics brand. What does this success say about the power of social media in building strong brands?
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The late Gordon Burn’s prophetic writing predicted our obsession with celebrity and the media.
President John F. Kennedy watches as planes conduct anti-sub operations during maneuvers off the North Carolina coast in April 1962.
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Reagan, Clinton, Obama and Trump would all pull from the Kennedy playbook, from mastering the media to exuding masculine vitality.