fame?!?
Fame is something that is only transitory... people that get popular one day fade in to obsurity the next. Deep down, it doesn't matter because we are all people... Hitler, George Bush, the President, Budda, Jesus, Britney Spears, and anyone else is just a human being like you and I. That's what's great about this world.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it." - Andy Warhol
There was an interesting show on National Geographic the other day where they were doing 3d models of what the earth would be like if we drained it. They got on the topic of atoms... and how matter is neither destroyed nor created... and there is a limited number of atoms on the earth...
In other words, the very air we breathe daily might be the same air that was in the lungs of Jesus, Hitler, Aristotle, etc. We are made of the same things as the stars in they sky! Fame is a silly thing.
One day, several years ago when I was on a spring break trip with some artist friends from college, we went to New York City to visit some museums. When we were at the MoMa we actually ran in to Lenny Kravitz, who was there just looking at art too. The girls in our group went crazy over that little guy (he's a lot shorter than he looks on tv). I just shrugged and went on looking at the art, standing literally inches away from canvases created by some of the greatest artists in the world.
Brad Pitt attended the same University that I currently work for. Cheryl Crow did too. Carl Edwards grew up just a few miles from here... Sara Evans grew up just across the river from where I live. I've seen each of these folks on occasion at various local events on occasion, and it was no big deal, just like it's no big deal that Deathifier is on my friends list.
People are people. Fame is nothing... It's different from person to person place to place.
I'm married to the most wonderful woman in the world, but that doesn't mean you think so.
I still say that my wife is the smartest woman in the world because she married me!