Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some take that as evidence that Bennett, now a millionaire, has grown complacent. "The kind of sudden fame and fortune Bill has earned, even though he has earned it, is not good for one's character," says David Tell, a writer for the Weekly Standard who has worked for Bennett and admires him. "Bill has a great capacity for work, but I don't think he's working very hard right now, in his reading or writing...
...eight-foot-long, five-foot-high fiberglass cow is this town's claim to fame...
Rock the Vote, the non-profit voter registration organization which gained fame through its ads on MTV featuring pop celebrities, is likewise scheduled to be at HYPE '96, with its officials manning voter registration tables...
Until now. After the drought, the deluge: five new movie musicals. The big news is the Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber Evita, a stage hit that Hollywood has wanted to film for nearly two decades. Alan Parker (Fame) finally got it done, with Madonna as Argentina's Material Girl, Jonathan Pryce as Juan Peron and Antonio Banderas as the narrator...
...years later she beat Martina Navratilova to recapture the title. An inexhaustible baseline player, Austin helped usher in the era of brat tennis. She was ahead of her time in other ways too. At 29, she was the youngest player inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, having quit eight years earlier, plagued by a sciatic-nerve problem. Two comebacks later, she retired for good. Now married to mortgage broker Scott Holt, she had their first child, Dylan, in April. Today she does TV commentary and plays in the Virginia Slims Legends Tour. Austin also runs a pro-celebrity...