Icons

In Japan, celebrities do not exist. Well they do, but not in the sense of the North American term. Basically once a celebrity has been around for a while and has made their mark, they become an icon. This is the difference; North America has celebrities, Japan has icons. Once they hit this status they can basically do anything they want, from going on television shows for no reason and talking about what they had for lunch the day before, to advertising vending machine coffee.

To think that was once Al Gores roommate in Harvard.