Cult of celebrity

Matthew Hoy
By Matthew Hoy on September 13, 2003

Fox News Watch's Eric Burns takes aim at celebrity worship in his latest column, especially the kind committed by James Lipton and his "Inside the Actor's Studio."

Burns is correct in his assessment of Lipton:

If he had been alive in the Middle Ages, he would have earned his living by licking the boots of the third-rate nobility and then bragging to friends about the sanctity of his tongue.

I will say this -- 99 percent of the time I'll keep on flipping right by Lipton's show -- with two exceptions. I watched his interview of Billy Joel. (What's he doing interviewing a singer/songwriter?) And I watched his interview of the cast of "The Simpsons."

Otherwise, his show is pretty worthless.

Tags

[custom-twitter-feeds headertext="Hoystory On Twitter"]

Calendar

September 2003
M T W T F S S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930  

Archives

Categories

pencil linkedin facebook pinterest youtube rss twitter instagram facebook-blank rss-blank linkedin-blank pinterest youtube twitter instagram