The blog I read was titled "As Jacko found, fame means trusting only cats and chimps". Despite the informal title, the article makes a substantial argument stating the expensive price at which obtaining stardom/fame comes.
She questions contemporary values as people continue to desire to be famous despite all of the negative side effects that seem to result from our consumer driven appetites for tabloid journalism - driving celebrities like Lindsay Lohan, Amy Winehouse, and Britney Spears to the edge of insanity with no room to breathe under the constant flashing lights of paparazzi.
She finds a pretty good explanation and potential theory as to why we have this desire for fame. It is as follows: "We as humans, we're not solitary people... Fame is people trying to attain community on a mass scale, because when you become famous wherever you go people know about what you've done and what you're about to do. And it's like you're living in one massive community."
The blog concludes with Jacko aka Michael Jackson attempting to find "familial love denied to him as a child" via his stardom, but in the end just ended up isolating himself only able to trust his cats and chimps.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/27/michael-jackson-fame-celebrity
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