Lookback: the fleetingness of stardom by Terry Teachout

From 2006: Fame is intense but fleeting in a TV-driven culture, which is one of the many reasons why I love watching the old What's My Line? kinescopes that air at three-thirty each morning on the Game Show Network. Most of the celebrities who appeared on the show between 1950 and 1967, when CBS cancelled it to make way for Mission: Impossible, are now dead, but a few are very much with us, though many of…

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