This describes the movie-goer's wish to overcome the difference between herself and the star so that she can become more like the star.

After polygenesis was soundly rejected by theologians, it was taken up with enthusiasm by many scientists. Thomas Henry Huxley published Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature in 1863, applying Darwin's evolutionary theory to human origins. […] Evolutionary polygenesis, of course, did away with belief in Adam and Eve, and instead asserted that humans arose as a population.

After a few years even the whip loses its virtue, and the pony goes to the knacker.

It's better to arrange to have someone house or apartment sit, or to arrange for a neighbor or friend to take in the milk, mail, and the newspapers, and to water and mow the lawn.