[Tax-chick]

If people who are all over the news all the time are "semi-celebrities," what does the author consider real "celebrities." Perhaps he thinks "celebrity" means something other than "all over the news all the time"?

[Mad Dawg]

I think I kind of get the author's problem. There's the old definitioin of celebrity: A person who is famous for being famous. And while it is rumored that Brtney can sing and Leslie Lohan can act, I've never quite understood what it is that Paris Hilton can do, I mean other than the dirty. So she certiannly is a celebrity in that sense.

But I bet the author thinks a celebrity ought to be able to do something important and to do it well, and that vague conviction leads to the uncertainty of "semi-celebrity".

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