A MONG the intimacies that used to be saved for marriage were the words, “If you do that one more time I’ll scream.” Nerve-wracking, however, is not what it used to be. Our era of overexposed celebrities has turned us into molar-grinding practitioners of promiscuous irritation aimed at people we don’t even know.
An epidemic of incipient screams currently surrounds Rachael Ray, one of the cooks from Food Network, whose recent consecration by Pope Oprah has resulted in so much overnight world-class fame that her face is on everything but the cover of Tool & Die Quarterly. TV is now all Rachael, all the time. There’s her cooking show, her eating show where she samples restaurants, her own talk show, guest appearances on other people’s talk shows, books, book tours, and so many tie-ins and endorsements that she’s all over the commercials too.
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