It's been just over a week since Michael Jackson died, and the whole concept of fame has never been so uniformly up for discussion - what it means to be famous, what it does to a person... the whole nine yards. For Jackson, it was a case of shutting himself away and constructing fantasy personalities, and this extreme example just shows you what can happen when you're constantly under the microscope. Britney Spears is sort of the same. Obviously Jackson and Spears are totally different people, but every move she makes is reported upon, and the glossies and the papers just would not leave her alone during her period of difficulty. And, like Jackson, she inspires a near obsessional devotion in her fans. Don't believe me? Just look at this...