Word: autographer
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...together. "At a White House dinner," says J. CARTER BROWN, who was director of the National Gallery of Art, "she was seated next to Mikhail Baryshnikov. It was customary to take the menu cards that were at each seat and pass them around to everyone at the table to autograph. When Baryshnikov got the set, he got shy about passing it on to her to autograph. So she teased him and said, 'Why? What's wrong? I have your autograph...
...said, 'As a teenager, I stood in the rain outside the stage door at Covent Garden when you were dancing because I was such an admirer and I wanted your autograph...
...thereby relinquished all rights of privacy and courtesy and become a plaything of fans' fantasy. Madonna has said that one of the worst things about being famous is that you cannot put your trash out on the sidewalk in front of your house: someone will plunder it. Autograph hunters are the most benign of stalkers. The press, to a divorced princess, an actress or the U.S. President, represents a complex evil and professional necessity. The predations celebrities fear most from the press, especially photographers, are intrusions into the lives of their children...
...system, which traced them back to Millstone. At night in his car he was sure people were following him. Yet occasionally, when no one else was around, other engineers would approach him, tell him he was right, pull out a copy of his TIME cover and ask him to autograph it. But they always made him promise not to tell anyone...
...wonders what that journey to maturity will cost. Rimes says she has no friends her age (she doesn't attend school and has a private tutor) and concedes that "it's hard for me to go out places without having people ask for an autograph." At the same time, some of her repertoire seems a bit mature for an adolescent who has yet to have her first date. On the semi-risque song My Baby, she sings, "My baby is a full-time lover ... My baby is a full-grown man." In the video for Blue, she peers out over...