Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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George Bush blamed LBJ. Jerry Brown blamed George Bush. Dan Quayle found an intriguing scapegoat: Murphy Brown. (Murphy Brown?) Mickey Rourke of 9 1/2 Weeks fame took it upon himself to blame Spike Lee. (Mickey Rourke...
...Your don't do this job for money, fame or power," she said, "but for the love of your students...
Turow's most recent claim to fame is Burden of Proof which, landing in bookstores in the summer of 1990, sold for a record-breaking $3.2 million in paperback rights...
...relate to one another. The camera spends too much time outside the loft -- watching Julie navigate the subway on her way to a dance class, or Heather at a rap recording session. The show seems less interested in its rats-in-a-cage sociological experiment than in fashioning a Fame-like documentary on Making It in New York. The glimpses we do get of group interaction are -- in the first three episodes, at least -- pretty paltry. Becky has promised Andre that she will go see his rock band perform, but she is too tired after attending an art show with...
...CREATED, DURING 62 YEARS OF international fame, one of the century's most indelible (if ambiguous) images. Yet she passed the last 13 years of her life as a virtual recluse -- cranky, litigious and, considering the length and strength of her celebrity, by no means wealthy. She was, by common critical consent, one of the great stars of the movies' Golden Age. But she was never wildly popular with the mass audience and was once dubbed box-office "poison" in an exhibitors' poll...