culture warp blurb

DO YOU WANT TO BE FAMOUS? Salvo Magazine has a nice take: "...consider what it’ll cost you. Forget the loss of privacy...I’m talking about the loss of life and limb. ...being famous can be quite hazardous to your health...Some stars die from the psychological burden of being famous, via suicide or drug and alcohol overdoses. Others die...wrapping their souped-up sports cars around telephone poles and...there are those who are killed by obsessive fans... Where the average life expectancy in America is age 77, for celebrities it is only 59. And get this: the average rock-and-roll musician only lives until age 37, so perilous is the rock-star lifestyle. No, if you value your life at all, the pursuit of fame is probably best left to others. Try something safer instead—perhaps skydiving or moving to Iraq."