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  • So Many Handbags, So Little Time (Review of "The Bling Ring")

    06/17/2013 11:04:10 AM PDT · by mojito · 2 replies
    London Review of Books ^ | 6/20/2013 | Andrew O'Hagen
    ....Fame today is a matryoshka doll: inside each celebrity is a series of smaller, hollow simulacra, and, at the very core, there is a hard little being who feels buried alive. In Alexis’s gang there were four girls and three boys: the main culprit, Nick Prugo, was a gay kid working his way out of the closet. When he was eventually arrested by the police he was wearing a striped top he’d stolen from the house of the actor Orlando Bloom. And that’s what they did: after days of shopping or doing pilates, hanging out on MySpace, texting or oh-my-god-ing...