1.   The film made local celebrities of several people who were chosen to feature in the film.

2.   Cumming predicts the show will make a celebrity of Morton, who has worked mainly on stage.

3.   The film has made a celebrity of writer-director Mike Figgis, an Oscar nominee in both realms.

4.   The girls are nobodies, but a publicity blitz instantly makes celebrities of Josie and the Pussycats.

5.   The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish.

6.   The popularity of the Internet has made minor celebrities out of some of the pioneers who would otherwise have spent their professional lives in relative obscurity.

7.   The Simpson case, which first made instant celebrities out of obscure people, has now made instant millionaires of some and suckers of the rest of us.

8.   We have seen a double homicide in Los Angeles County make minor celebrities out of unemployed actors, overbearing defense attorneys and obscure criminologists.

9.   Wardens have recently taken to banning face-to-face interviews with prisoners in the hope of discouraging shows that make celebrities out of murderers.