What's a Celebrity, Anyway?

Here in the U.S., we seem to have an ever-growing fascination with celebrity. Indeed we all have a friend who can quote the most inane bits of celebrity trivia on command. There is also no shortage of web sites that make a very pretty penny by purveying every little detail related to every little dilettante. The more trivial the celebrity trivia the better, it seems. And these people do nothing other than act in movie and on television, in made up plots, playing made up people.




For example, did you know there are entire web sites dedicated to the hair styles of Jennifer Aniston? And we all know there are web sites that track the very whereabouts of one Brittany Spears. You can have celebrity trivia and tidbits delivered to your mobile phone too, just in case you need to know what Hollywood power couple is calling it quits while you're out stalking your local celebrities.




The real question here is, what does this say about our society in general, and is this fascination healthy, or harmful? Type a celebrity name into a search engine and take a look at how many sites come back as results.




On the other side of the coin, how many people can spout actual useful information about non-celebrities? Who knows anything about Winston Churchill, or Mahatma Gandhi, or any 19th century U.S. President? One might argue that these people are celebrities too, and if they were still alive, certainly they would be. Perhaps we are making a distinction here between people famous for being entertainers, and others being celebrities as a result of some act in the public service. Others are celebrities through no fault of their own.




Certainly some criminals would fall into this category. Other criminals, you could argue, did what they did out of a desire to be celebrities. So we've determined then that there are different kinds of celebrities. There are entertainers; there are other public figures, which are widely known because of what they do, as opposed to those who do what they do in order to become widely known. And there are others who are celebrities because of some unfortunate series of events over which they had no control.




Any way you slice it, sometimes our fascination with celebrity trivia occupies too much space on the shelf of things a society should care about. And then again, sometimes we could all use a little bit of a diversion from our mundane and boring lives.

GuessForFree is a trivia web site with several categories and games, including (celebrrity trivia) . Art Gib is a freelance writer.

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Actors And Entertainers Fighting Cancer

It's been called the dreaded C and many more. It is a disease that can shake the faith of the ones faithful and diminish the small hope of those hopeless. It is a disease that does not discriminate and can care less for the afflicted's status in life. It is a disease that the world is fighting. It is cancer. To put it in layman's terms, cancer is an disease caused by a tumor. Any person can have cancer. Even the famous and prominent personalities go through the trials of cancer. Here are four of very talented and well known celebrities that were diagnosed with the Big C. All of these celebrities came forward in the open and gave it their all while fighting the life altering disease.




Christina Applegate is a much loved mainstream actress that played the part of Kelly Bundy in the sitcom: Married With Children and currently as Samantha Newly on the show, Samantha Who. Last August 2008, reports that Applegate have breast cancer comes out in every medium known to man. Her publicist confirmed the news that she is diagnosed with breast cancer. The positive thing about the diagnosis is that it was caught in starting stages. The cancer cells were found on only one of her breasts but Applegate decided to have a double mastectomy operation within the same month. Christina's mother is a cancer survivor Which means her disease is greatly on the hereditary side, she decided to take action upon the fatal threat as soon as she could. Christina is now doing well and will undergo reconstructive surgery soon.




Hailed as one of the most successful female pop singers, Sheryl Crow is also a songwriter, political activist and has nine Grammy Awards to her credit. The performer was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006. As with Christina Applegate, the discovery was caught early. The entertainer underwent a lumpectomy, which is a surgery to remove the tumor in the breast. Sheryl also went through radiation treatment for around two months after the surgery. The singer has been without cancer since the surgery and is amazingly on her second year as a cancer survivor.




Christened as Francine Joy Drescher, Fran is widely known all over as Fran Fine from her TV series, The Nanny. In 2000, Drescher was hurried to the hospital because of uterine cancer, a type of cancer where the tumor attacks the uterus of a person. Her cancer, luckily, was still in its early phase when the procedure to remove the tumor was made so she didn't go through chemotherapy or radiation treatment. After seven years of being free of cancer, the fantastic actress created an organization to help others who are afflicted with cancer. The name of the organization is Cancer Schmancer Movement.




The charming and sexy Patrick Swayze... Dudes envied his scene with Demi Moore in the movie, Ghost, and girls went numb with his dancing moves in Dirty Dancing. No one can utter that they don't know Patrick Swayze. He is now battling pancreatic cancer. He has been having chemotherapy and a operation to take out soiled areas of his stomach. His struggle is far from being over but he's still out there winning the battle. He recently gave a remarkable speech at the Stand Up To Cancer 2008 event.

Be charitable by supporting charitable giving. Singer David Osmond is very charitable. David Osmond supports many good causes.

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