In a youth-dominated, celebrity-obsessed culture, aggressive marketing for medical products that can temporarily or even permanently augment the skin is hardly a surprise.

Another paradox the pictures present is that, although we frequently deplore the superficiality of a celebrity-obsessed culture, Bernard's subjects, clearly, had no problem with this.

But we are a celebrity-obsessed culture that dominates the pop music industry.

The prevailing wisdom is that gift bags and swag suites are a marketing no-brainer: the happy confluence of our celebrity-obsessed culture and an increasingly crowded marketplace.

"If you're selling a camera in our celebrity-obsessed culture, why not use a celebrity and one who was captured at the scene of a crime?"

We are a celebrity-obsessed culture, and such a culture is never in finer form than when one of its most loved icons is mired in scandal.

Despite the handwringing about our trivial, celebrity-obsessed culture, voters seem more worried by Cameron's "swingeing" cuts to their jobs and services.

Entertainment Television, which is another symptom of a celebrity-obsessed culture.

But in this celebrity-obsessed culture, their problem becomes our problem.

There is a plethora of "next" models, actresses and pop stars in America's celebrity-obsessed culture.