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Two years ago, I wrote in The Business of Fame that we would never again have a celebrity on the scale of Marilyn Monroe or Oprah: celebrities of those eras existed before the noise of the internet, and fame is simply too accessible now. We’re all in our own content bubbles, and celebrity means different things to different people.

Rex Woodbury • The Internet Killed Mainstream Culture

People who make great art that moves the masses are not like you and I. They have a point of view, laser focus, a pinch of delusion, and a level of execution that is required to make something great and be able to sell it. Being guarded, playing it safe, and always being concerned with controlling the narrative just isn’t compelling anymore. Charli

But Woody Allen changed everything. Woody Allen made it acceptable for beautiful women to sleep with nerdy, bespectacled goofballs;

Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Erica Reisman

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With shopgirls, department stores could harness what historian Peter Bailey termed, in his history of Victorian sexual culture, parasexuality. Writing about bar maidens, Bailey conceptualized parasexuality as feminine sexuality that is “deployed but not fully released.”

Ashley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

Jenny Holzer Rachel Cusk Solange Knowles Louise Bourgeois Lina Bo Bardi Zaha Hadid Michaela Coel

The two hit it off and Gaga took to Littlemonsters.com to announce some news—she had hired Helen to be a part of the creative team in the Haus of Gaga:

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Rex Woodbury • The Internet Killed Mainstream Culture

Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Erica Reisman

Ashley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

Jackie Huba • Monster Loyalty: How Lady Gaga Turns Followers into Fanatics

Dan Borstein

Peter Kaufman