Word: autographing
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...Simpson's image as the world's most genial jock, it will still be hard to make jurors put aside the old impressions of him. Unless they can imagine O.J. in a murderous rage, it won't matter even if the state offers them DNA blood tests with his autograph on every drop...
...help you?" Typically the first response is a double take as customers grasp that it's really her -- the notorious Hollywood Madam -- there among the boxer shorts and athletic gear at the Heidi Wear shop in Pasadena, California. The second response is to ask Fleiss to autograph their purchases, then to cluck sympathetically about her recent conviction on three counts of pandering and denounce her mandatory sentence of three years as a waste of taxpayer money. Fleiss has heard it all. But last week it was her turn to do a double take when a uniformed policewoman entered the shop...
...their enormous wages, they then have the gall to charge kids $15 for an autograph...
Carter was feted at some of the most fashionable spots in New York City. Restaurant patrons, overhearing his claim to fame, would come up and ask for his autograph. Photo editors at the major magazines wanted to meet the new hotshot, dressed in his black jeans and T shirts, with the tribal bracelets and diamond-stud earring, with the war-weary eyes and tales from the front lines of Nelson Mandela's new South Africa. Carter signed with Sygma, a prestigious picture agency representing 200 of the world's best photojournalists. "It can be a very glamorous business," says Sygma...
...smiled at them for years -- first as one of the rare, great sportsmen, unruined by his gifts or his fame, warm, grateful, ready to sign one more autograph when he was dog tired and overstretched. He ripened into the affable ABC commentator, the smooth corporate pitchman, even a plausible movie star. The legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg helped him learn the craft, but the art was innate. "He already is an actor, an excellent one," Strasberg said. "A natural...