John F. Kennedy Jr. died young; whatever his promise, he never achieved it. He wasn’t a popular politician, or a successful actor, or a musician with a closet full of Grammys. And yet, his death two decades ago prompted wall-to-wall media coverage, absolutely dominating the news cycle for days upon days.
, as well as a slew of commemorative magazines, full of tributes to a man positioned as an American prince. The August 2, 1999 cover ofsaid it all: “CHARMED LIFE, TRAGIC DEATH.” It was the end of an era, but not in the way that the money-minting, blockbuster popularrealized. It was a high water mark for celebrity magazines’ place in the world, and for an entire model of celebrity.
Get your eyes off that man’s extraordinarily defined thighs! What do you think, he strips down to his shorts for a game of touch football in Central Park so strangers can gape at them? They are fantastic, though. Measure three, four feet around. Legend has it that if he lived in Tahiti, instead of Manhattan, he could crack coconuts with them.attractive.
But the anniversary of Kennedy’s death drives home the degree to which the mechanisms of celebrity have shifted. We live in the era of the micro-celebrity, the influencer.
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