Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER MUSEUM in Punxsutawney, Pa. The site is "an easy target" because of its groundhog fame, says Paul Feenstra, an aide to Representative John Peterson, who got the cash. "But [it] helps kids learn about weather science and history." --By Douglas Waller
...want to still be able to work out at that age and keep playing,'" Giambi testified, according to the Chronicle. "And that's how the conversation first started." Buster Olney, a baseball writer for ESPN the Magazine who has a vote in Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame elections, calls Giambi's court appearance the "Mount Everest of steroids and baseball testimony. Nothing else is going to come close...
...star-studded birthday bash, Broadway acting gig and get-out-the-vote campaign (whose tag line, Vote or Die!, earned its fair share of derision) kept his fans--and the gossip pages--rapt. But fame alone doesn't really pay the bills. No other CEO has combined celebrity and smart branding quite like Sean (P. Diddy) Combs, 35, head of the sprawling Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group. Combs' $300 million urban empire includes a hip-hop record label, two restaurants, a music-publishing arm and a marketing company, Blue Flame, which teaches FORTUNE 500 clients like Pepsi and Microsoft...
...former lead singer of the Lemonheads (of punk cover of “Mrs. Robinson” semi-fame) continues his solo alt-pop career with a return to his hometown in support of his album Baby I’m Bored. Come party like it’s 1992. With Jake Brennan & the Confidence Men and Bob Cenci. Tickets at door or online. $15. Doors at 8 p.m. 18+ only. Paradise Rock Club...
...George persevered, and ultimately he scraped together funding from foreign investors. Actor Don Cheadle of Oceans Eleven fame agreed to play Rusesabagina, and MGM signed on as the distributor. “It was always nerve-racking that the money would fall through,” the director says. But the scent of success should put George’s nerves at ease. Hotel Rwanda garnered a Golden Globe nomination for best drama Monday, and Cheadle grabbed a best actor nomination as well...