[[{“type”:“media”,“view_mode”:“media_large”,“fid”:null,“attributes”:{“class”:“media-image alignright size-full wp-image-2569”,“typeof”:“foaf:Image”,“style”:“”,“width”:“100”,“height”:“100”,“title”:“”,“alt”:“Valley News”}}]]Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr ’80 will talk about his new book, Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame, at 7 p.m. Monday, December 3, at the Howe Library in Hanover, N.H., reports the Valley News.

Burr studied film at Dartmouth and ran the Film Society for a year. He majored in theater with a minor in film, graduating in 1980, the newspaper reports.

Discussing the attitude fans have toward the movie stars they flock to see, Burr tells the Valley News that “it’s a doubled-edged sword. We worship them and resent them. … The audience thinks that stardom is a gift and we give it to them and they should be thankful and grateful. We don’t understand why they don’t appreciate what they’ve got.”

Read the full story, published 11/30/12 in the Valley News.