A lot of hullaballoo has been made about the fact that we’re experiencing a golden age of television in culture right now — everybody knows that. But what gets overlooked is that we’re also experiencing a golden age of celebrity gossip thanks to people like Anne Helen Petersen. Petersen is part of a larger trend of writers who are puzzling out the lives of today’s stars and what our obsession with them tells us about ourselves. Petersen, holds a PhD from the University of Texas’s department of radio, television, and film, and she specializes in something called Star Studies.