The Obsession with Movie Stars
Why people love the red carpet.
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7 min readJun 4, 2019
Hundreds of millions of people watch the Golden Globes and Academy Award telecasts, and copious adoration is directed at the movie stars walking the red carpet — what they’re wearing, who they’re with, what they will say to the talent holding the microphone. This adulation is only a highlight of fandom. The magazine racks at the grocery check-out offer us…