On the religious roots of celebrity worship

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Posted: Tue, Dec. 20, 2011, 3:01 AM
By Tirdad Derakhshani
Inquirer Staff Writer

There are absurdities aplenty when it comes to our adulation of celebrities, but few in recent memory have made as many headlines as this one: A Canadian dentist named Michael Zuk paid $31,000 last month for one of John Lennon's teeth. (Lennon had the half-rotted molar extracted 40 years ago and gave it to his housemaid as a present.)

When it comes to celebrity memorabilia, nothing seems out of bounds:

In March, a lock of Justin Bieber's hair fetched $40,668 on eBay.

In other hairy things, a set of James Brown's hair curlers went on the block in 2008. Alas, it fetched less than $400.

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/135901223.html?viewAll=y

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1. celebrity worship

I do believe you've stumbled upon one of the few things that I find more disgusting, disturbing, intolerable, and repugnant to me than mainstream religion.

In fact I consider it the absolute worst thing about American culture.

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2. Icons is icons... nt