Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lamm entered the race, in a manner of speaking, and started talking about the long-term effects of unchecked entitlement programs. "It isn't necessary to comment on every new museum that comes along," I said. "You don't see Bob Dole at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
...York-Paris route; the insurance-company executive who hoped to finally strike it rich by cutting a deal in Europe; the French "flat-picking" guitarist, a protege of Chet Atkins', who was on his way home after being honored at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame. The other passengers ranged from TV producer to unemployed construction worker. All their lives, however, had come to a final intersection...
Perversely, though, a stray thought suggests it might matter to them--could they know about it--that their death had the prestige of a great disaster, like the Titanic, say, or even of Lockerbie. More stature in that--more fame, more myth--than in a commuter flight downed by wind shear in rural Iowa...
Schumacher's timing was perfect. Hungry for a star who didn't display a grungy ambivalence about fame and adulation, the media couldn't resist the hunky newcomer, proclaiming him heir to Cruise, Newman and Brando. The campaign was ably abetted by McConaughey, whom the camera adores and who seems happy to project old-style Hollywood magic. Suddenly McConaughey was everywhere. "I've sat here for six years and not seen anything like this," says Interview editor Ingrid Sischy, who put him on her August cover. "This is the arrival of a Hollywood star...
CHARGED. HARRY MORGAN, 81, deadpan TV actor of M*A*S*H fame; with bruising his wife; in Los Angeles...