Comment on Inching closer to the grave every day
Kirk@startrek.website 1 year agoThe nepotism part has always been true, but the category of celebrities “being famous talent” did not exist until Paris Hilton. Socialites and “famous” talent-less people like Florence Foster Jenkins did not have “fans” the way influences do today.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 year ago
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Speaking of, Paris Hilton’s great grandfather was married to Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I am simultaneously enriched and diminished by knowing that.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Who wasn’t?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
there’s a whole rube Goldberg machine of celebrities of that era that are married or related.
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Definitely. We still have that to this day, such as the Kardashians. At least with the Internet some people become famous without those moneyed connections but those are still the exception.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is that the lady from Green acres? It’s the place to be!
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Nope, it’s her sister, you’re thinking of Eva Gabor. Darling I love you but give me Park Avenue.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Don’t half ass the job, kid. Ass it completely!
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Her sister…
Lucky13@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh honey. Talentless celebrities existed before you were born.
match@pawb.social 1 year ago
before radio, every born noble was famous despite having no talent, with the rare exception of the talented ones
Saleh@feddit.org 1 year ago
Well, they had political power. So it was pretty darn important to know them around where you lived.