When I was younger we played games like, "What's most important to you: money, love, sex, fame, intelligence, kindness, justice, respect, athleticism, etc". I never answered fame. I would never want to be famous.
Most famous people probably do not want to usually be recognized in public. Celebrities do not want others asking if they are who they think they are, or requesting an autograph, or gossiping about their lives within earshot, even if they use "coded speech".
No wonder so many celebrities are recluses!No wonder so many child stars suffer emotionally (even when not exploited by family and managers)!
It is such an invasion of privacy. Anonymity should be a right. Imagine how wonderful it would be if celebrities did not have to hide away in mansions of gated communities, but instead lived among everyone else. Imagine if, except at certain events, people either did not know them or treated them just like they would anyone else.
If you ever recognize a celebrity in public, don't.
(Which reminds me that I support mixed-income development, as well as other new urbanism concepts such as mixed-use, transit oriented, pedestrian and bicycle friendly, and valuing historic, natural, and wild spaces, etc).
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