Celebrities

Chances are, you’ve read the “Celebrities…They’re Just Like Us” section in a famous gossip magazine while waiting in line at the grocery store. While their idea of “Just Like Us” and reality are two separate matters, famous folk are just like us in that they can run afoul of the IRS. Read on to learn about five famous people who got busted for tax evasion. Martha Stewart Martha Stewart, with homemaking empire and endorsements didn’t have to worry about living paycheck to paycheck like most…

e all want to be ‘known’ and I don’t really know why. Want to be important, want to be recognized and attention. We look at celebrities-famous people- and wish to be like them. We wish to have their money, prestige, and possessions. But why? What do famous people seem to have others do not have? Audience, money or ‘fake love’? So, when we want their lives, what are we truly pointing at? Success is not fame, and fame is rarely success. Success is more than pain, abuse, addiction and relation…

Oscar Night is perhaps the most glamorous night in Hollywood. All the celebrities dress up in their best outfits for the most prestigious awards show of all. Oscar Night fashion is so popular that the TV stations that broadcast this prelude often get more viewers than the Oscar show itself! Celebrities go through hours of preparation in order to look that good. They employ hair and make-up teams for that special night, and pick out dresses sometimes months in advance. Of course, in their case…

it. Jessica Bennett analyzes the part Internet plays in creating celebrities in her article, “The Flip Side of Internet Fame.” The title itself reveals Bennett’s view of the so called fame the Internet manufactures. Often that fame would be better described as infamy, with embarrassing moments engraved in cyberspace forever. People don’t usually want to be infamous, making many of the Internet celebrities not quite right. Celebrities are supposed to be god-like, somehow more elevated than the…

Celebrities can have a significant influence on consumer choices because they are easy to recognize, many people admire them, and their fans would want to buy any product that they use. For example, a company would want to hire Stephen Curry, a basketball star, to be a spokesperson for Under Armor shoes. This example shows that the company believes that Stephen Curry could influence people to buy Under Armor because he is a talented basketball player. When the viewers see Stephen Curry…

"IMPACT OF CELEBRITIES ON CUSTOMERS." International Journal of Applied Services Marketing Perspectives 3.4 (2014): 1283-90. ProQuest. Web. 22 Mar. 2015. The author of “Impact of Celebrities on Customers” was written by Archana Dadhe. Dadhe is Assistant Professor at Department of Management Sciences and Research, G.S.College of Commerce and Economics…

One of the main issues of the media today is the sheer amount of criminal charges filed against even the most popular A-list celebrity. In fact, almost every celebrity has been arrested. Singers such as John Lennon and actors such as Robert Downey Jr. have faced charges for drug possession. There are 664 arrest incidents in the NFL yearly, the three most common being DUI, domestic violence, and drug possession. The annual arrests of these famous athletes are almost double that of the average U.S…

The goal of this memo is to present a set of proposed questions about the Kentucky Fried Cruelty campaign which will posted on the PETA Facebook page. We want to know the public’s opinion on the website for the campaign so that we can make changes to increase the effectiveness of the campaign. Summary In 2003, PETA launched the Kentucky Fried Cruelty campaign. The campaign seeks to change the fast food restaurant KFC’s treatment of chickens. The restaurant KFC has been known to commit…

Your #1 Fan Description: A Fan, you probably know one, or are one… And for generations, the western world has seen people fall under the admiration and desire to know more about pieces of pop culture, constituting them as ‘a fan’, from ‘Beatlemania’ to ‘Beliebers’ and everything in between. While the feelings may still be the same, how has the experience of being a fan changed? I talked to a fan, a creator and a publicist- three different people who have experiences in different angles on this…

In today’s society, information gets shared by billions of people every day through different means of social media. Whether they are qualified or not, people always tend to share the opinions on social media, usually on events that are happing in our world. This creates a variety of opinions that people from all over the world can see, however, sometimes these opinions effect people, perspectives and can have a really big influence on them. Bullying for example, someone that might have a huge…