Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ironically, the star and the guilt-ridden murderer have something else in common. Both Ripley and Damon work their way through conversations like poachers in Yellowstone. They sense they're being watched, so they constantly observe themselves. Halfway through talking about the responsibilities of fame and how it should be used for good, Damon breaks off. "Oh God," he says. "I sound like Miss America." He seems to have an acute sense of what others, particularly reporters, want to hear. He talks sports with the guys. He does classic movie routines with the show-biz old-timers. To a thirtysomething...
...seems to get the fame thing too. When the school that rejected Damon 20 years ago wrote recently asking for a photograph for its 75th-anniversary wall display, Damon and his mother talked it over for a while. What he had predicted had come to pass. "Karmically, it was big," says Damon. A pause. "Of course I'll send them something." Of course...
DIED. PAUL CADMUS, 94, controversial artist known for his satirical, near-illustrational style; in Weston, Conn. He gained fame in 1934 when Navy officials yanked his painting The Fleet's In from a show because it depicted sailors with a gay man and prostitutes...
...like the Bulls to dump general manager Jerry Krause. The man is still riding on his Michael Jordan-finding fame, except someone forgot to tell him that it gave out a long time ago when he drafted Stacey King in the first round. 6. I want Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth in jail. The man is a danger to society, allegedly conspiring in the death of his pregnant girlfriend. It looks like this may be one wish I've already been granted...
...like Ken Griffey Jr. to stay in Seattle. Not enough baseball players spend their careers in the same place. I mean, Roger Clemens will probably be in the Hall of Fame in a New York Yankees cap. How'd that happen...