Word: fame
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...that fame, all of a sudden. What was it all about? Even back then, Bruce Springsteen was too smart to try to find out. Except one time...
There are at least three answers. They all are (or were) celebrated performers. All won fame using pseudonyms: namely, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor and George Burns; John Garfield, Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis; and Peter Lorre, Jill St. John, Paul Muni and Lauren Bacall. Most important, all are dramatic examples of the way many Jews have dissembled as a way of evading anti-Jewish sentiments while at large in gentile America...
...newspapers, saying he would pay them to tell him of their lives. And he wrote. A failed poet, for good reason, he aimed at capturing his life, the lives of others and his part of the 20th century in an unblemished account that would bring him fame...
Since the fame of William ("the Refrigerator") Perry has spread far and wide in recent weeks, no one should mix him up with Tab Thacker anymore, right? For those with a slim memory: Perry was a star defensive lineman at Clemson, class of '85, while Thacker was the national collegiate heavyweight wrestling champ from North Carolina State, class of '84. Now as Perry carries on his football career with the Chicago Bears, Thacker is branching out to try the movies. In Wildcats, Goldie Hawn, 40, plays a Chicago high school football coach stuck with the roughest athletes in the city...
...being paid a lot of money to do a movie and to get in shape, I'm like Marlon Brando," he confesses. Says the determined Isaacson: "There's no question as to whether we can produce the shape and the look." After all, Isaacson came to fame, or more precisely to the attention of the famous, three years ago when he prepped Travolta for Staying Alive (Fever II). Isaacson was the athletic consultant at the Snowmass Club near Aspen, Colo., where he met Travolta. "I couldn't have been a better pilot project," recalls the actor...