Teenage Paparazi, Adrian Grenier's Redeemed Heart & Intellect

In a survey of 700 kids, 42% chose to be a personal assistant to a celebrity instead of being a University President, or U.S. Senator.

After watching Adrian Grenier's documentary on a Teenage Paparazzi, I have found a new respect in his sense of responsibility to society by portraying the empty life of a self absorbed teenage child who thanks to Grenier has an encounter with personal fame and experiences a complete personality change, and we can all witness it on camera.

Grenier realizes he is responsible for the monster he has created in Austin and attempts to find a solution.  During his conversations with Paris Hilton during the film (who cheerfully played into his paparazzi charades), compares this child with Narcissus, the Greek god who fell in love with his personal reflection on a river stream, fell in and drowned.  Adrian begins to feels a great sense of disconnect with his prodigy star during the film after the Teen Vogue calls and E! reality TV proposals start cluttering Austin's phone lines.  Immediately, Grenier is propelled to action and begins exploring viable options of personal and professional, sustainable growth for his film prodigy Austin.  With little success, Grenier he tries introducing him to photojournalism & social culture only to have the camera capture the inability of this child to concentrate in his schoolwork, or anything else besides Hollywood.

While wearing a t-shirt that says "Love is My Religion" Grenier sits down the newly famed monster Austin and his fame hungry mother to watch a run of the film to be aired.  The mother, brought to shame, realizes that she has lost control of her child, who can hardly focus on his personal schoolwork and asks him to reform his style seeing how her dirty laundry would be aired to the world.  Although the fame monster learned that he doesn't feel like he needs to impress people, it was refreshing to see a more mature and well balanced young man, a year later.  Hopefully Grenier does a follow up in which Austin overcomes his obvious ADD & learning disability and successfully graduates from college.  That's a future, the youth of America not only needs to witness, but one they really need to believe in.