Word: fame
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Hayek is of Lebanese-Mexican decent and was raised in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico by her businessman father and opera-singer mother. She began her acting career as the title role in “Teresa” (1989), a hugely popular telenovela (Mexican soap opera), and later rose to Hollywood fame...
...there who haven’t yet determined where we are headed in life. There are still some of us who haven’t switched our homepage from google.com to cnbc.com. While everyone around you may seem to be headed down a predetermined career path, destined for fame and success, you may be like me and my 10-year-old football players, utterly clueless as to which direction you’re going. But let me tell you something, those kids were laughing their butts off the entire time, and they always eventually made it to the end zone...
...hilarious and totally unlikely combi-nation! I’ll be sure to listen to him a lot now.” This would be, of course, ridiculous, but the phrasing’s not that far from the reason why Matisyahu has managed to sell any records. His fame is spreading across the country in exactly the same way: “No way, a Hasidic, Jewish, reggae, rapper?!” I’ve never heard Matisyahu introduced without the use of all four of those words, usually in that sequence; you can’t describe...
...Hotel Cristallo's history reads like a rock star's autobiography: there's the sudden success, the fame, the adulation, the troubled times, the seemingly unstoppable decline. And, inevitably, the comeback. Ten years after the Cristallo closed its shutters, the veteran sashayed back onstage, looking more glamorous than ever. That was in 2001, and the luxury five-star hotel in the Italian ski resort of Cortina is still rocking its clientele. "We loved the idea of starting again," says Paola Gualandi, whose entrepreneurial clan now owns the Cristallo. "And Cortina is very popular and upscale?everybody wants to be here...
...Hotel Cristallo's history reads like a rock star's autobiography: there's the sudden success, the fame, the adulation, the troubled times, the seemingly unstoppable decline. And, inevitably, the comeback. Ten years after the Cristallo closed its shutters, the veteran sashayed back onstage, looking more glamorous than ever. That was in 2001, and the luxury five-star hotel in the Italian ski resort of Cortina is still rocking its clientele. "We loved the idea of starting again," says Paola Gualandi, whose entrepreneurial clan now owns the Cristallo. "And Cortina is very popular and upscale - everybody wants to be here...