Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...starring Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro. Beowulf, written by Gaiman and directed by Robert Zemeckis, is coming in November. Next year Dakota Fanning will star in Coraline, based on Gaiman's children's book. Is he about to cross over from the weird world of cult fame to the equally weird but more lucrative world of actual, real-world, mainstream fame? "Oh, God," says Gaiman. "I hope...
...commotion surrounding the movie brought with it the chance for fame for some Harvard students...
Then, says Kennedy, came "my 15 minutes of fame." He got successive $1 million advances for his next two books and was heralded as the next John Grisham. But they weren't big hits. "I was 41," he says. "I decided I was going off to write what I wanted." That was The Pursuit of Happiness, a sweeping love story set in postwar New York City. No U.S. publisher would touch it, but it thrived overseas, selling 350,000 copies in the U.K. alone. Kennedy has the gift--or perhaps curse--of transcending genres. His thrillers are romantic, his romances...
...rose quickly through the ranks: Broadway debut at 20 in the World War II musical Over Here!, the lead role in the Broadway Grease at 21, TV fame as sexy Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back, Kotter at 22. Then the Fever struck. Travolta radiated old-time star quality in his first major film role; he had the strut, the moves and the blinding white suit to be a disco dreamboat. Six months after Saturday Night Fever, which had a boffo domestic box office of $94 million, came Grease, which earned twice that...
...Like the movie itself, Henson and Cheadle are a lot of fun - until it appears that something larger than local fame is about to be thrust upon him. He instinctively understands that his success depends on the defense of his singularity, his incomparability with anyone else, and he becomes nervous, uncertain and withdrawn about moving beyond his small Washington pond - symbolized by a gig on The Johnny Carson Show, which he funks...