Word: fame
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Valedictorians, All-American athletes, the occasional best-selling author...Harvard’s freshman class demographics are downright intimidating. Yet only one special frosh can boast having his own reality TV show, self-produced music videos, wedding filming service, and popstar-like fame on campus. Peter C. Shields Jr.’s ’09 latest music video, “Aphroditi,” which he produced, directed, and starred in, features the crooner in a number of suggestive scenes singing Greek and English lyrics that he penned himself. In the video, the often bare-chested...
...stranger to a drink-off, and wakes up bleeding in his car, his last memory of someone telling him “kiss my ass” at 1:24 a.m. For those Bell Lap readers who have not yet discovered him, we present Tucker Max of TuckerMax.com fame, the man who received a B.A. from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Duke Law School (two facts he mentions frequently), but decided to make a living blacking out, juicing women, and recounting his adventures on the Internet. “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell...
...list of admirers. At the end of March, the brain behind the tutoring company will appear on the WB’s new reality series “Survival of the Richest.” Who needs Starbucks when you have a company under your belt and network TV fame...
Republicans have also embraced Obama, realizing that any legislation he co-sponsors will automatically get more attention because of his fame. Obama was able to get more done last year than his junior status would normally allow. He joined a bipartisan effort on avian flu that resulted in several billion dollars of funding to prepare for a possible outbreak. He helped get funding for veterans' health care increased $1.5 billion. The main G.O.P. worry is that Obama's political future may be too promising--that he would be hard to beat as a presidential contender...
MANY TV SHOWS can set you on pins and needles. But only this one is about pins and needles. This competition among aspiring fashion designers, heading for its second-season finale in March, stands out because its smart, bitchy, funny competitors have brains and artistic aspirations beyond basic-cable fame. And no reality host is more dryly funny than Tim Gunn, the designers' mentor, whose derision for a badly made outfit cuts like a well-honed pair of shears...