Comment on Inching closer to the grave every day
Kirk@startrek.website 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Speaking of, Paris Hilton’s great grandfather was married to Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I am simultaneously enriched and diminished by knowing that.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Who wasn’t?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Is that the lady from Green acres? It’s the place to be!
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Nope, it’s her sister, you’re thinking of Eva Gabor. Darling I love you but give me Park Avenue.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Don’t half ass the job, kid. Ass it completely!
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Her sister…
Lucky13@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Oh honey. Talentless celebrities existed before you were born.
match@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
before radio, every born noble was famous despite having no talent, with the rare exception of the talented ones
Saleh@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Well, they had political power. So it was pretty darn important to know them around where you lived.