{"id":106281,"date":"2016-12-30T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=106281"},"modified":"2016-12-30T13:15:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T18:15:25","slug":"immutable-laws-starfuckery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/30\/immutable-laws-starfuckery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Immutable Laws of Starfuckery"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re away until January 3, but we\u2019re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Painting by Lucien Rudaux, ca. 1920\u201330.<\/p><\/div>\n

In Brushes with Greatness<\/a>, Naomi Fry writes about her relatively marginal encounters with celebrities.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain\u2019s oral history of punk, Please Kill Me<\/em>, the \u201970s LA groupie Sable Starr recounts the excitement she felt the first time she slept with David Bowie:<\/p>\n

Upstairs at the Rainbow they have just like one table. Me and David were sitting there, with a couple of other people. And to have all your friends look up and see you\u2014that was cool. That was really cool … Back in the hotel we were sitting around. I had to go to the bathroom, and David came in and he had a cigarette in his hand and a glass of wine. And he started kissing me\u2014and I couldn\u2019t believe it was happening to me, because there had been Roxy Music and J. Geils, but David Bowie was the first heavy. So we went to the bedroom and fucked for hours, and he was great … I became very famous and popular after that because it was established that I was cool. I had been accepted by a real rock star.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve always loved this description because its sexiness sits very comfortably alongside its bluntness toward power grubbing. It\u2019s really the perfect teenage fantasy: you\u2019re having what appears to be very enjoyable sex with an extremely attractive person while simultaneously rising in the eyes of your peers thanks to the immutable laws of starfuckery. An inextricable part of sleeping with famous people is the encounter\u2019s visibility to others, and the higher the celebrity\u2019s rank on the fame totem pole, the better. It\u2019s only science.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re away until January 3, but we\u2019re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday! 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