The broad use of the word “star” to indicate a leader among us dates back, Peter Davis, a theater historian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, told me, to the Middle Ages. They are “stars” because their audiences want them-and in some sense need them-to be. But they are “stars,” much more specifically, because they are part of Western culture’s longstanding tendency to associate the human with the heavenly. Stars are stars, certainly, because they sparkle and shine-because, even when they are bathed in the limelight, they seem to have an incandescence of their own. Don’t Be Grateful That Dad Does His Share Darcy Lockman
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