Word: autographer
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...jaunty O.J. Simpson tacked through the usual media flotilla waiting outside the pastel-colored government building last Tuesday. He brightened when a young Hispanic man asked for his autograph. But once inside, away from the cameras, Simpson lowered his head and heaved a deep sigh. For this wasn't the Santa Monica courthouse where he's been spending most of the past two months defending himself in the wrongful-death civil suit brought by the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. This was the start of yet another trial, in an Orange County courthouse 40 miles away, where...
...casual clothes and a floral fragrance, both called Tommy Girl. Last week Bloomingdale's in Manhattan celebrated with a wall of windows full of well-cut, preppie-style separates, many emblazoned with the Hilfiger logo or a giant H--and that's not for Harvard. The store held an autograph party, as if the designer were Michael Jordan or Luciano Pavarotti. Lean, perky, with his trademark jack-o'-lantern grin in place, Hilfiger...
Says Lobo: "What's really exciting is not just the little girls asking for my autograph but the little boys. As I see it, if a little boy asks for my autograph, maybe he'll treat a little girl differently. Maybe he will pick her to play on his basketball team, or pick her for soccer in gym class, and realize that girls can be pretty good athletes...
...downtown Nashville, the thermometer climbs toward 100 degrees as the swooning crowd swells to more than 40,000, all straining to catch a glimpse--maybe a word, even an autograph!--of one of the celebrities scheduled to appear. A country-music concert at the fabled Ryman Auditorium? Hardly. They are far too cool in Nashville to get excited about mere music legends. No, this is the opening of a restaurant...
...reputation is not limited to this continent alone. On a visit to his family's hometown in southern India seven years ago, he was mobbed by throngs of elementary school students wanting his autograph. "It was cute," he says...