Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While it may not seem very difficult to take a foursquare American icon like Elvis and make money off of him, in fact the reverse has been true, and therein lies an illuminating tale. Unlike the story of Elvis' rise from poverty to fame and bloat, which will certainly be told and told again in the coming weeks, the story of what happened after his death is both more unfamiliar and nearly as compelling, at least from a fiduciary point of view. Its unlikely heroine turns out to be none other than Elvis' "child bride," Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, who divorced...
...read his article on the new Internet commerce regulations. Even if you subscribe to a powerbased theory of relative importance, the you-are-where-you-work theory still fails. Bob Dole, who still wields tremendous lobbying power, is now a private-sector lawyer; John Huang, of campaign-finance-scandal fame, was a low-level political appointee at the Commerce Department...
...from Le Monde to the Frankfurter Allgemeine to Town & Country--that she experienced again and again in a career that was launched in scandal when she appeared as the tender (and fully exposed) model in the photographs of her lover and later husband Alfred Stieglitz. She advanced that early fame on the sheer power of her painting, her personality and, increasingly, her role as an icon of feminist strength. With the inauguration of the new building, O'Keeffe joins a small number of disparate American artists with memorial museums: Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell and Frederic Remington among them. In fact...
...sure, inquiring minds demand to know: Is Bill really Autumn's dad? After public money and Jackson's 15 minutes of fame have been spent, the mystery may well remain unsolved. Before jury selection began last Monday, Judge Barbara Jones ruled that the question of Cosby's paternity was legally irrelevant and shot down a defense request that Cosby undergo a paternity test. The defense would also like to present the results of a polygraph test, taken and passed by Jackson on July 6, in which she answered yes to the questions, "Is Bill Cosby your father?" and "Is your...
...Smith is Evander Holyfield, and Martin is Mike Tyson," says Steve White, a Martin writer and onetime Lawrence roommate. "I like Tyson; he'll do anything for you. But he's misunderstood." Jamie Masada, who runs the L.A. comedy club the Laugh Factory, saw a change in Lawrence as fame engulfed him: "The illusion got to his head. He came in with bodyguards, security people. Some people can handle it. But if you're not focused and strong, it can kill...