1.   Appropriately enough, my all-American celebrity worship began patriotically, when I was barely big enough to pick up a name, much less drop it.

2.   Benny Walsh, longtime busboy in a New York restaurant, documents his celebrity worship by collecting autographs of entertainers, sport stars, politicians, anyone famous.

3.   A useless event has evolved into a tasteless exercise of fawning celebrity worship.

4.   Celebrity worship is an old story.

5.   Celebrity worship, titillation and sophomoric psychiatry are taking their place.

6.   Even in the rarefied precincts of classical music, there is a kind of celebrity worship.

7.   No signs mark the way to these places of celebrity worship.

8.   There is mild celebrity worship as Tina Turner admits her weakness for scary movies, and Camille Cosby sits down for an interview with Winfrey.

9.   Yes, there is big business in celebrity worship.