Word: fame
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...establishment. Having reached a new level of success after the release of his second album, the conceptual “A Grand Don’t Come for Free,” Skinner is forced to abandon cheeky irreverence (sort of), and adopt the much more serious issues of fame and fortune. Complaints about the lifestyle of the rich and famous is a trail well-trodden in the music industry, and Skinner’s descent down the same path is part bizarre and part amusing—I can’t help shake the feeling that his tongue...
...under way. A talking Bettie Page tattoo (voiced by Jodie Foster) anchored an episode of The X Files. Robert Foster, in his book The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen of the Pinups, wonders when the retro celeb will get her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It's about time...
...being a bondage babe wasn't much of a distinction to the mass audience of the '50s, who didn't know Bettie Page existed. If she'd had even a little mainstream fame, Estes Kefauver, who chaired a Senate investigation into the movies she starred in, would surely have called her to the witness stand, to gain tabloid headlines from the exposure of Bettie's lurid luster. Instead, while her producer defended his films ("But there's no nudity!") and psychiatrists attacked them, she sat outside the hearing room for 16 hours, ignored...
Scott Griffith 48, Boston CLAIM TO FAME As CEO and president of Zipcar, the country's largest car sharing service, Griffith has made self-service, on-demand rental cars a mainstream amenity in 10 states and 29 cities, changing the way urban dwellers view owning a car and how much they drive. "We're trying to make getting a car as easy as getting cash from an ATM," he says. Each of Griffith's cars takes 20 privately owned vehicles off the road, reducing urban congestion, emissions and parking demand. Zipcar's 50,000 members (almost 40% of whom have...
...year. And it was also the first magazine to capture not just the intensity, but the sure-fire box office potential of the online craze that has erupted around the film: "This attention all but clinches the would-be dud's place in the camp classics hall of fame...