We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour no 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle' because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think 'Ooh a movie star's birthday!' I just thought 'What?'
Judaism is much more communal and partly as a consequence of my religious switch I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.