From a Globe and Mail profile of someone named Tila Tequila, a MySpace pheenom who has had a reality show debut recently on MTV:
The mainstream press have heralded Ms. Tequila's arrival with a mixture of curiosity and disgust. “When exactly in the Warholian arc of fame did we arrive at a point where we create celebrities of people so little accomplished that they make Paris Hilton look like Marie Curie?” worried a New York Times critic last week.
There's some other good stuff in the Oct. 28 NYT piece by Guy Trebay:
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