Not So Star-Struck

We're a little funny when it comes to giving people the star treatment here. Chefs and newscasters, jocks and furniture salesmen, professors and pols - these are our biggest celebrities. Is something wrong with us? Maybe we're the only ones getting it right in these celebrity-obsessed times.

By Janice Page

June 5, 2005

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All the important elements are in place: red carpet, helicopters, jockeying paparazzi, fans. This could be any movie premiere in any city. Except that I would know with my eyes closed that it's a Boston-does-Tinseltown event, because for one thing, it has our signature combination of small-time ambience with big-time attitude, and, two, there's a woman screaming, "Jawwwneee! Jawwwneee Damon!" ... (Full article: 3609 words)