Word: fame
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...dispute your selection of Frenchwoman Maud Fontenoy, who rowed across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a small boat. Certainly she has courage, determination, strength, resilience and stamina, and her long-distance rowing achievements are admirable, but she is no hero. If she channeled her fame into raising money to combat aids or poverty, if she taught sailing to underprivileged teens as a way to help them see beyond the crime and poverty they grow up in, if she did something for someone else besides herself - then maybe she would deserve the term hero. Cindy Wyneken Freiburg, Germany Aging Gracefully...
FOUND LIABLE. ROBERT BLAKE, 72, irascible TV actor of Baretta fame; in the wrongful-death civil suit filed by relatives of his wife Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, who in 2001 was shot to death outside a restaurant in Studio City, Calif.; eight months after being acquitted of murder charges in a criminal trial; by a jury in Burbank, Calif. Blake was ordered to pay Bakley's four children $30 million...
...possibility demands a fair bit of optimism, with any luck, “The Ice Harvest” will take a seat alongside “The Blues Brothers”—or any of Ramis’ best work—in the comedy hall of fame. Just look for the one with the bullet holes.—Staff writer Ben B. Chung can be reached at bchung@fas.harvard.edu...
...positively fab looks she has sported in the video, to chilling effect. After a close up of her whittled cheek-bones, she dramatically sighs at the camera and ends the song, all traces of the ruddy prepubescent she used to be vanishing under the harsh lights of fame.—Rebecca M. Harrington
...Hollywood fairly welcoming. Even though during filming Jennifer Aniston was in the trying process of separating from Brad Pitt, the RZA remembers that she “showed mad respect and mad love for my homeboys when they visited.”It is not a desire for fame or money that motivates RZA to move in to film, but rather that he’s looking to conquer a new realm that fascinates him, he says. Nor does he want to be seen as leaving his roots behind. “I didn’t make a transition...