Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...HAND. YOU SAID, "WELL, WHEN YOU SIGN ON, YOU SIGN ON FOR THE WHOLE RIDE." WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXPAND ON THAT A LITTLE? It's just, you know, a trail boss--ism. I used to get a kick out of actors who'd have 10 minutes of fame and they'd start going, "Oh, my God, I can't stand this, and I don't really like it and I just wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to really be successful." And you go, "Oh, come on. Who the hell are you trying to bulls...
...band can only handle so much boot-tappin’ and gyratin’ in acid-washed jeans before their fans wander on in search of drunker pastures. The second disk is void of any of the songs that gave the Crüe their extended fifteen minutes of fame. Mötley Crüe made its name in mindless driving rock to which one could swig a beer; in trying to highlight their accomplishments of the post-grunge, semi-cleaned-up 90s, they recede into a softening sound and fading tattoos. Where the first half of the album...
...find ways to understand each other." Lamar Alexander tried to have it both ways: "I believe it is important that we support our system of trial by jury, even if we have great doubts about an individual result." Jesse Jackson made a curious suggestion, urging Simpson to turn his fame "to a positive use" by launching a drive against domestic violence...
Despite his success and newfound facebook fame, Haut says his glory days are over: “I see about 1,100 facebook group leavings in my future.” When this magazine went to press, his profile had slimmed down significantly. A photo of his, er, hindside remained, as did quotes from funnyman Douglas Adams. But all group memberships had disappeared...
...young and rich and famous and the crowd is screaming love at you, and if your overnight shift is taking the favors of some beautiful stranger waiting at the stage door - honestly, what do you have to mope about? The Beatles, in the first flush of their fame (when they wore matching suits), got it right. They played a song, the girls squealed, the boys smiled. Then the Rolling Stones came along and made sexual menace the new code of behavior. With Bob Dylan, nobody was a singer any more; now they were artists. And to create, artists have...