Paps, celebs, morlocks and eloi

[sawyl]

This description, from Decca Aitkenhead's piece in yesterday's Guardian, of Nicole Kidman's encounter with a group of photographers, is pure perfection:

The actor shimmers out looking unreal — every detail so hyper-defined it looks more like computer animation than human flesh. The aesthetic discrepancy with the swaddled and hooded paps, grey from a diet of crisps and coffee, makes them look almost subterranean.

Very Wellsian. Celebs as the fey Eloi dependent on, yet fearful of, the paparazzi who play the part of the Morlocks, by turns feeding, then feeding on, their targets.