Fame lasts 'for 15 months not 15 minutes'

[bijou]

Fame lasts for an average of 15 months and not just 15 minutes as predicted by Andy Warhol, it is claimed.
 
By Lucy Cockcroft
Last Updated: 5:42PM BST 28 Jul 2008

In 1968 the American artist forecast that "in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes," as the fleeting celebrity of pop culture developed.

But now PR "guru" Mark Borkowski has come up with a "fame formula", by studying a range of well-known people, to calculate the shelf-life of a celebrity career.

Mr Borkowski believes that Warhol was almost correct, but concludes that people who are pushed into the limelight in this era can expect their initial fame to last for 15 months.

He found that each celebrity he looked at was surprisingly similar in the way their fame decayed.

Mr Borkowski, who has represented Michael Jackson and Joan Rivers, said this explained why reality television contestants vanished after a year-and-a-half, if they did nothing but wallow in their first flush of fame.

His formula measures the way fame declines, allowing publicists to see when they need to "stir up the hornet's nest" and propel their clients back into the limelight.

Mr Borkowski's calculations are contained in his new book, The Fame Formula
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2465717/Fame-lasts-for-15-months-not-15-minutes.html

[Inga]

So this means Obama's time is up. Right.


This doesn't always calculate out, we have celebrities on the forum whom has lasted longer then 15 months. Their success is contributed to their passionate and exuberance for life. So they're the exception to this formula.

[Chris_]

Fame lasts for an average of 15 months and not just 15 minutes as predicted by Andy Warhol, it is claimed.

Inflation can be a bitch.