Measuring Celebrity
-- Leslie Lamport, Annals of Improbable Research 12, 1 (Jan/Feb 2006), 14-15.

Fame is being known. Celebrity is being known by your first name. Monica Lewinsky became famous when people learned of her presidential activities. She became a celebrity when people called her Monica.

...we define the Monica to be the unit in which Monica Lewinsky's CI equals 0...
..the CI measured in deciMonicas (dM) ...
..Here are the CI and fame, in decibel Lewinskys (dBLw)..