Celebrity

Three guys were involved in a rape when they were young. The crime is covered up, and the guys grow up and go their separate ways. One becomes a reporter who gets involved in a fight against the Ku Klux Klan. The second turns out to be a closeted gay man who hides his secret from his wife. The third hides his dirty deeds behind the facade of being a popular pastor. A court case that could destroy all three men brings them back together again. This mini-series was based on a popular trash novel that was out at the time.

as i recall, it was gripping enough to watch the two nights of it's broadcast. i remember the plot and story-line, but not much else. i'd like to get my hands on a copy on VHS, i doubt it's on DVD.if there's anyone out here who knows where it's available, i'd like to hear from you. it was the big thing in the mid-eighties, that being TV mini-series, such as The Sophisticated Gents, Cheifs, Backstairs at the White House, among a few. from the above comments, some didn't like it very much, but i found it compelling, i seem to think it began at the end, and was a backstair. i do want to see it again, so if any can help out, give me a yell.

"Celebrity" is about three childhood friends who are bound to each other for life due to a tragic event which occurred when they were teens.

Each one of them gains a certain amount of notoriety as adults and the viewer just sits around waiting for the other shoe to fall. You wait and wait and wait...and wait. Finally, their past comes back to haunt them and leads to another predictably tragic event.

This mini-series actually got quite a few good reviews when it first appeared on TV. Evidently, it was a lot easier to be entertained back then. At around five hours, the length of the film is excruciatingly long and it easily could've been stuffed neatly into a two hour TV movie.

Aside from the horrid pacing, the fatal flaw in this mini-series is the lack of viewer empathy for the three main characters. You keep getting introduced to interesting supporting characters only to have them completely disappear or pop up only every hour or so. The three men in the lead roles all come across as being dishonest and shallow to varying extents.

"Celebrity" is not a mini-series which has stayed in the public consciousness for good reason. It is bloated and tedious. 1/10

I saw this miniseries years ago but it was only towards the end of this review that I realised I had seen it before.

3 young men grow up as friends and say goodbye to each other when they leave school, one becomes a famous actor, the other a renowned journalist, the third goes down the wrong path and eventually becomes an evangelist with a dark edge, a tragedy from their youth hangs like the sword of Damocles over their lives with fatal consequences 25 years later.

The story takes a very long time to tell the life of the 3 men, in this case more than 4 hours but I didn't really mind because I like it when a lot of time is taken to develop characters, so you really empathise with what the boys and later men experience.

This miniseries had me by the throat from beginning to end. I see it is described as soapy and it may very well have been. I tend to like stories with a soapy Twists but the characters were compelling especially the one who became a preacher. I remember feeling as if I was learning something about human nature about the reality of who people really are. Also about how we never truly really k ow anyone else. I cant remember a lot of specifics at this point but I wish they would bring it back at some point. Since it's a three part series w males at its center Amazon might be the best platform? It's really more like Lifetime but like I said it's male centered. I'd also say Tubi since it does have full series it could easily have a three part movie. Anyway I'd love to see this again and see how my grown up self feels about it.