Celebrity fixation comes with pitfalls

Photographs of a celebrity couple holding their 100-day-old daughter in their arms adorned the cover pages of newspapers' entertainment sections and flooded the homepages of many Chinese web portals recently.

The couple - actress Zhang Ziyi and her singer husband Wang Feng - threw a grand party for their daughter Xing Xing, which literally means "wake up".

Indeed, almost half of the country's entertainment circle "woke up" to the celebration. Dozens of A-list stars and top film directors showed up at what the media described as an "Academy Awards-style" celebration at a Beijing hotel on April 10. They showered the baby with gifts as traditionally one is expected to lavish a 100-day-old baby with the best goodies and wishes.