Ty Burr The Faces In The Mirror Summary

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In “The Faces in the Mirror” Ty Burr talks about how stars really are. Everyone wonders what stars are really like, what they like to do on their free time, and who they are. America always aspire to meet these people, they want to be them and be famous.
They are just human beings, like us, they are not in away different than us. They have feelings, they have problems, and they need to be treated with respect just like every other person. Burr references how he saw a celebrity in Manhattan, New York. The celebrity we saw, was Robbin Williams, he had no life in his eyes, didn’t look sad or mad it was just nothing. Sometimes being a celebrity takes its toll on them. They never get the chance to have real friends or have people who actually care about them. They have little to no privacy so Burr left him alone because he felt bad for him.
As a country we are wired to automatically aspire to be famous. We want to be them. Everyone has always looked up to the stars, we pay money to watch them, and pay extra money to go and see them. Throughout time American has been in love with the stars, we buy clothes the stars wore, we get hair styles stars have, and we design our homes like the stars’ homes. Everyone wants to be the stars and they want what they have, they want their life, their cars, and their money. …show more content…

We can become famous via Facebook or our second lives and it seems easier now to become famous because of the internet. Now days there are more and more reality shows and those were just normal people who lived interesting lives. Those normal people now have a TV show, what will happen if we all get TV shows about our lives. Still, there are still classic actors who actually know how to do their job rather than just a reality show. No matter what these actors or non-actors do, we still aspire to be

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