Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...telling you that fame and fortune are not what they're cracked up to be." MADONNA, singer and actress, promoting her new album...
...hard about what I want to be when I grow up—and I believe I’ve finally settled on the pursuit that best balances the key criteria of any truly noble and worthy fantasy profession. This career provides comfortable pay, a reasonable amount of fame, a ridiculously low level of difficulty, requires little or no prior experience and places one in close proximity to attractive women who are willing to overlook the male-pattern baldness and overweight physique that are Mother Nature’s way of amusing herself at man’s expense...
...Iraq is not destined to become an Islamic Republic like Iran. Iraq has no charismatic figure like Ayatullah Khomeini. The late Iranian ruler actually rose to fame on the back of a nationalist revolution and then cemented his authoritarian power through a Shiite doctrine called velayat-e fagih, or rule of the Islamic clergy. The doctrine is not widely accepted by Iraqi Shiites, including their most revered leader, Grand Ayatullah Ali Sistani, who favors the traditional "quietist" role of the clergy in politics...
...obscure goal (putting on a small-town musical, winning a dog show) far outstrips their sense or competence. In A Mighty Wind, he and co-writer Eugene Levy offer a new blueprint for poignant idiocy: the reunion of three folk groups 40 years after their 15 seconds of fame...
...telling you that fame and fortune are not what they're cracked up to be." MADONNA, singer and actress, promoting her new album...