1.   America has turned into a celebrity culture, and we keep score on celebrity by watching the money.

2.   Big money long ago brought sports down to the same level of hucksterism as the rest of the industries in our celebrity culture.

3.   A celebrated recluse will never be left alone in a celebrity culture.

4.   All of which makes for a perfect symbiosis between modern media and the celebrity culture.

5.   All that the celebrity culture teaches is a counterfeit empathy, which mistakes prurience for interest and voyeurism for a genuine human identification.

6.   But Bech is a useful instrument nonetheless, a fictional creation through whom Updike settles scores with critics while pondering the literary life in a celebrity culture.

7.   But in Oscar Wilde, the celebrity culture has finally found a subject worthy of this superfluity, someone complicated and challenging enough to endure the excess and more.

8.   But in our celebrity worshiping culture, not to mention this attention-grubbing city, envy is stuck on automatic pilot.

9.   But it was not an age driven by a celebrity culture, she said.

10.   But other fans reveled in the chance to participate in the celebrity culture.