“This should be the year that made clear the distinction between the publicity-hungry, irremediably ego-needy actual denizens of show business (like myself) and the way more grotesquely hungry and ego-needy residents of the show business underworld known charitably as ‘reality-TV’…It was obvious something was adrift, or ajar, when the phrase ‘reality-TV star’ began to be written and uttered with no trace of irony.”Harry Shearer in the Huffington Post, regarding the White House gate crashers
