Word: fame
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...intrusions are only part of the reason Rowling is uneasy with fame. "I never set out to make a mark," she tells TIME. "I set out to do the thing I love best in the world and find out whether I was any good at it." She's so good at it that her lawyers are constantly swatting down copycats trying to cash in on Pottermania. Her legal team recently won victories against a Chinese knock-off, Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon, and a Russian novel about Tanya Grotter, an orphan with magical powers who attends...
...born star got his big break on Broadway in 1935 in the Three Men on a Horse, and made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt in 1943. Cronyn and his wife and longtime stage partner, Jessica Tandy, were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1979, and each won a Tony for special lifetime theatrical achievement in 1994; Tandy died later that year. Cronyn once said he found film easier than the stage, but less satisfying: "My heart belongs to theater, which is really home and mother...
...predictions of stardom are old news to Bana, 34. Back home, the working-class boy from Melbourne has been driving up the entry ramp to movie fame for more than a decade. In the early 1990s, he was a star on the TV sketch-comedy series "Full Frontal", in which he honed his gift for impersonation. Bana jokes that those who knew him when will say, "How dare you be internationally known as a dramatic actor, when here you were just into comedy?" Soon he pursued movie work, and locals figured he would be the next Mel Gibson. But that...
...more like Captain Kirk. There he was in the opening two games of the NBA Finals, shouting instructions at and cajoling his teammates, giving an encouraging smack to his mentor and teammate David Robinson, and even screaming after throwing down a slam dunk in the fourth quarter. Hall of Fame center Bob Lanier watched in awe as the 7-foot Duncan took over Game 1 against the Nets, scoring 32 points, grabbing 20 rebounds, recording six assists and blocking seven shots in a 101-89 victory. "Tim isn't that demonstrative," Lanier says. "But he is intense...
Well, you know, he's a happy-go-lucky dog. He gets a pretty big kick out of life. He's a heroic dog. Although he shuns fame...