Each year after the Oscars, I ask myself the same question: Does wealth love celebrity, or does celebrity love wealth? It’s worth remembering that fame and money haven’t always gotten along. The rich once believed themselves superior, not only financially but also culturally and socially, to their entertainers. Even the most famous performers were excluded from society’s affluent inner circle.
Somewhere, however, this distinction dissolved. As entertainers amassed large fortunes in their own right, the combined powers of money and recognized public appeal granted performers the leverage to operate near, if not within, the realm of the industrial elite. In turn, that same industrial elite now strives to rub shoulders with Hollywood’s A-list.
Ironically, today’s screen actors and business moguls each want more of the other, which has created a symbiotic and irreversible bond, and brought the once-separate worlds decidedly together. Fame and money aren’t likely to split up anytime soon.
The One Percent by Jamie Johnson
Via: VanityFair
I think the guy iis Howard Hughes, but who is the Woman. As a possible answert to the quwation of wealth and celebrity. The wealthy are entertianed by celebrities just as the middle class and poor are entertaned by celebrities. Though maybe not rich, Celebrities are above the middle class and they have fame. The wealthy for the most part have no fame, and thwy are definitely not attracted to the poor or miiddle class. Anyone that is above the people the wealthy are attracted to; while thiose they re attracted to that have fame is gravy, (that they may or may not want).