Julie Klam. (2017). The Stars in Our Eyes: The Famous, the Infamous, and Why We Care Way Too Much About Them. Penguin Publishing Group.

Julie Klam. 2017. The Stars in Our Eyes: The Famous, the Infamous, and Why We Care Way Too Much About Them. Penguin Publishing Group.

Julie Klam, The Stars in Our Eyes: The Famous, the Infamous, and Why We Care Way Too Much About Them. Penguin Publishing Group, 2017.

Julie Klam. The Stars in Our Eyes: The Famous, the Infamous, and Why We Care Way Too Much About Them. Penguin Publishing Group, 2017.

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Look out for Julie's new book, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters.
From bestselling author Julie Klam comes a lively and engaging exploration of celebrity: why celebrities fascinate us, what it means to be famous today, and why celebrities are so important.
“When I was young I was convinced celebrities could save me,” Julie Klam admits in The Stars in Our Eyes, her funny and personal exploration of fame and celebrity. As she did for subjects as wide-ranging as dogs, mothers, and friendship, Klam brings her infectious curiosity and crackling wit to the topic of celebrity. As she admits, “I’ve always been enamored with celebrities,” be they movie stars, baseball players, TV actors, and now Internet sensations. “They are the us we want to be.” Celebrities today have a global presence and can be, Klam writes, “some girl on Instagram who does nude yoga and has 3.5 million followers and a Korean rapper who posts his videos that are viewed millions of times.”
In The Stars in Our Eyes, Klam examines this phenomenon. She delves deep into what makes someone a celebrity, explains why we care about celebrities more than ever, and uncovers the bargains they make with the public and the burdens they bear to sustain this status. The result is an engaging, astute, and eye-opening look into celebrity that reveals the truths about fame as it elucidates why it’s such an important part of life today.

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     June 1, 2017
     A collection of essays on our culture's fascination with celebrities.Klam (Friendkeeping: A Field Guide to the People You Love, Hate, and Can't Live Without, 2012, etc.) has done her share of celebrity journalism in magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Glamour. In her fifth book, she chronicles her interviews with one-time or sort-of celebrities like Timothy Hutton, whose 15 minutes came when he won an Oscar in 1980 at age 20 for Ordinary People, and Griffin Dunne, who starred in An American Werewolf in London. They come across as perfectly pleasant, polite guys with little apparent interest in the subject of celebrity. The author professes a fascination with celebrities that began when she was a teenager plastering her bedroom walls with pages from Tiger Beat, but by this point, that fascination has clearly faded, and she seems to be proceeding dutifully through all the expected bases. She observes strangers taking selfies outside the restaurant where Seinfeld was filmed, speaks with Quentin Tarantino's publicist, discusses the necessity of plastic surgery for celebrities, frets about the Kardashians and their unearned fame, and interviews former Mets player R.A. Dickey, forgetting to turn on her tape recorder, with a resulting chapter that's more about her than him. The book is padded with dozens of recollections of celebrity sightings by Klam's friends and acquaintances. In the book's most pleasurable moments, the author discusses her Aunt Mattie, an unabashed reality TV show fan who enjoys sitting in her La-Z-Boy with her dog and some licorice and pretzels to watch and muse on the complicated relationships in Love & Hip-Hop: Hollywood. Entertaining but shallow. Klam is perhaps too sensible a writer to care much about the filtered world of celebrities, and her fundamental indifference to the subject, no matter how she struggles to overcome it, makes the book seem less than essential.

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     June 1, 2017
     

     What is it that makes celebrities famous--and why are ordinary people so fascinated with them? Author and memoirist Klam (Please Excuse My Daughter) explores these questions in bite-sized chapters covering topics such as child stars, scandals, and the lure and harmful effects of fame, usually in conversation with one or two people ranging from those in the industry (actor Timothy Hutton, agent Adam Schweitzer) to Klam's own Aunt Mattie (a devotee of reality TV). Between chapters are "intermissions" in which people describe their own encounters with celebrities, ranging from amusing, sweet, and sometimes cringingly awkward. While Klam has great verve for her subject, her treatment of its various facets unfortunately tends toward the shallow, and the already thin book is padded out a little too much with digressions on her own particular celebrity connections and interests. VERDICT There's nothing new or particularly insightful here, but Klam's breezy style and the variety of celebrity anecdotes might provide a fun indulgence for those looking for a quick, gossipy read. [See Prepub Alert, 2/6/17.]--Kathleen McCallister, Tulane Univ., New Orleans

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     A book about the culture of celebrity obsession might seem a departure for Klam (Love at First Bark, 2011), who's previously written books about dogs and friends and her mother, but she is qualified: she's been star-obsessed for as long as she can remember. Through interviews with entertainment-industry insiderssome of whom are actors she once pined after from her preteen bedroomshe considers child stardom, conflicted feelings about a public figure's work versus his or her personal life, old Hollywood versus new, and the concept of reality stardom (with more than a few digs at the Kardashian empire). Chapters end with testimonies from Klam's friends, many of whom readers will recognize, about their own brushes with celebrity. Writer Lee Woodruff recalling the time she needed Kevin Costner, a complete stranger, to know that she was pregnant, not lazy, is particularly memorable. With insightful research that speaks to Klam's personal interests, and lots of long quotes from Klam's many interviewees, this will find its most enthusiastic readership among lovers of memoir and books about Hollywood.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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“When I was young I was convinced celebrities could save me,” Julie Klam admits in The Stars in Our Eyes, her funny and personal exploration of fame and celebrity. As she did for subjects as wide-ranging as dogs, mothers, and friendship, Klam brings her infectious curiosity and crackling wit to the topic of celebrity. As she admits, “I’ve always been enamored with celebrities,” be they movie stars, baseball players, TV actors, and now Internet sensations. “They are the us we want to be.” Celebrities today have a global presence and can be, Klam writes, “some girl on Instagram who does nude yoga and has 3.5 million followers and a Korean rapper who...

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