We Call Celebrities `Stars,` But Why?
(ArtsJournal)

It all started with Chaucer, and it makes sense. Calling a celebrity a star `emphasizes the role of the celebrity as a body both distant and accessible, gleaming and sparkling and yet reassuringly omnipresent. Stars have long suggested a kind of order-and orientation-within chaotic human lives. They have long hinted that there is something bigger, […]