Celebrities- Trivial Pursuit revisited

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What's the fascination with celebrities? There's some guy who actually collected one of Frank Sinatra's toenail clippings, and a cigarette butt. What gets me is the indepth interviews where you find out about that 5 seconds of personal hardship someone had before they became a celebrity. Like they were remembering when they were real people. Everyone's a fan of someone, but is this real fame, or just being unavoidable and getting paid for it?