Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Maybe that even works better for our purposes. It’s more jaded, certainly. You can hear the tired sigh, the burden of having said something that people put on bumper stickers. But it also indicates a sort of populist quality, like everyone can get in on this fame and fortune thing and everyone has a story to tell. In that spirit, we present you with our final issue of the year. In Fifteen Minutes everybody is famous. It’s a yearbook of sorts, which goes appropriately with the whole quotation thing. You can meet...
...minutes of fame ended with few perks. “Eh, it didn’t get me any dates,” says Good. “[But I] had plenty already so, you know, I wasn’t too worried about that...
...that he has survived his dream role, Kirk, who recently bought a house in Los Angeles, says he is looking for some easier fare, maybe the kind of gig that can bring him some fame and fortune. "I was thrilled to be a WB hunk," he says with a laugh. "It's all I've ever wanted." Like Prior, Kirk may get more than he bargained for. --By Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles
DIED. WARREN SPAHN, 82, Hall of Fame pitcher who won 363 games, more than any other left-hander in Major League Baseball history; in Broken Arrow, Okla. He and Boston Braves teammate Johnny Sain formed one of the most famous duos in pitching history, inspiring the motto of hopeful Braves fans during the 1948 World Series: "Spahn and Sain, and pray for rain." Known for his mental stamina and his longevity (he had 13 20-win seasons for the Braves and pitched until he was an ancient 46), Spahn told TIME in 1960, "I start every game intent...
Social backlash against gay marriage has become so pervasive that it even infected the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. The day before the parade, Harvey Fierstein, the Tony-winning, cross-dressing actor of “Hairspray” fame, wrote an editorial in The New York Times that dared Americans to imagine a jolly and caring Santa who happened to be married to a man. He cast himself as Santa’s gay partner and anticipated riding on Santa’s float in the parade...