price of fame

While watching the interview with Bell Hooks something caught my attention about her opinion on Madonna. She stated that Modonna has to have a new gimmick every time she wants to gain a new image. By doing this she is gaining more popularity and wealth. When Hooks was talking about this I immediately thought about how celebrities go to far lengths in order to have a higher fan base and higher status. Heidi Montag is the poster girl for this. She completely changed the way she looked and acting in order to gain more fame. What a mistake. When is she on TV anymore? Never. Why is it that celebrities have to take it to the extreme in order to achieve something that can easily be attainable by doing positive things that will make for a better, more respectable image. Hooks also mentioned that Madonna does the things she does because of greed. She needs that wealth to make herself feel better and, unfortunately, its the case for many people who seek fame and fortune. I feel like sometimes they don't always think about what they do well enough to understand the image that they really are putting out there. When it comes to male celebrities, Tiger Woods definitely screwed up, and I know he didn't do what he did in order to gain fame and fortune because he already had that, but my argument is that all that fame and fortune caused him to do the things he did. He is a person that should have thought about what he did before he did it. To me, this goes to show that money can make person do crazy things that don't always look good to the public. Greed is the main thing that runs trough these famous people's vein's once they get a taste of the fame and fortune.