# Would you want to be Rich & Famous?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 19, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-want-to-be-rich-famous/304525 "2005-05-19T02:56:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-want-to-be-rich-famous/304525/41 "2005-05-20T02:49:46Z")

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> [@wasson](#):
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> I’d love to be crazy rich, but would hate being crazy famous. It would be nice to be moderately famous, though. Like the type of famous who gets recognized at the mall by 1 or 2 people, but not quite famous enough to have people following them with cameras and autograph pads.

That’s exactly how I feel - as a wanna-be novelist, I’d rather be a Sharyn McCrumb than a Stephen King. I’m guessing she doesn’t have stalkers trying to get into her house on Halloween!

Unlimited supplies of money - I’d love it! I could make sure our Highland Games was never short of funds again, give more to my pet causes, and travel. DH swears he’s never moving again, though, so my dream of a Tudor-style house is probably shot to hell, no matter how much money we do or don’t have!

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**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-want-to-be-rich-famous/304525/42 "2005-05-20T11:39:57Z")

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In the late 1980s I wrote songs for a Baltimore DJ who knew the Greaseman. The biggest radio pesonality in the region, Grease was reputed to be making around $400,000 a year. Nice money, but there are lawyers, doctors and executives making more than that who aren’t the least bit famous. And hiring stalker-proof security must eat up a big chunk of that.

> [@Paul in Saudi](#):
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> A couple of years ago, when the radio host ‘The Greaseman’ was still in DC he was attacked at an event by a fan. Grease’s bodyguards wrestled the attacked to the ground and hustles the DJ into a waiting SUV which sped away.
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> A DJ needs bodyguards? (Is even a major DJ rich?) I do not need the headache of being famous. (Do famous people have places only other FPs go to relax?)

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