Word: fame
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Clearlake has been sharing a short series of gigs with fellow Brits Stereolab, a band of constant cult fame. Over a decade-plus-long career, Stereolab has consistently released some of the most popular indie pop, and their fame is far greater than Clearlake’s at this stage in the game...
...which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient, yet most of the time manages to restrain her verbal sweat glands and channel her energy into vigorous writing. But if you sweep away her layers of reputation -- her accolades, her past accomplishments, and her present heroic-scale fame -- you find that there are no firm intellectual roots to her analysis, and no rational bounds to her emotionalism. Pauline Kael has become just another opinionator, more fiery and more skillful than most, but without any broad vision to separate her from the herd...
Reality TV in particular deserves their gratitude for unmasking the artificiality inherent in the world of fame and celebrity-seeking. Seeing their average fellow citizens compete to be a “Survivor” or “Apprentice” has revealed to most Americans how fame can be created and manipulated, changing what we admire about those who reach the top rungs of the celebrity ladder. J. Lo, for example, is a purely modern phenomenon, admired not for her music or god-awful recent movies, but because she is so undeniably crafty at using the media...
...least a few chances to redeem themselves. A commercial or critical failure used to be the first sign of the apocalypse in a singer or movie star’s career, but these days it is understood that both mortals and the super-famous make mistakes. As a result, fame is no longer just about the quality of a performer’s latest film or album—it’s also about how that product seems to play into a singer or actor’s strategy to conserve his or her celebrity...
From afar, it appears you have to be slightly crazy in order to actually enjoy the sport. There are no fans, no chance of fame and certainly no illusions of future fortune. Instead, rowers look forward to early morning practices on frigid rivers and vomit-inducing workouts...