Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...feeding. Her first, Zack McCoy, is plainly modeled on Jackson Pollock. The wounded god of Abstract Expressionism, he moves from early struggles in New York City to vexed triumphs on the sunlit east end of Long Island. There McCoy/Pollock has his breakthrough to the drip paintings that bring him fame, which arrives at his door with its jaws open...
...will not be final until January (the two separated in June), she has become engaged to actor Ben Affleck, 30. Speculation about the couple's status has been fevered, abetted by their frequent lip-locked appearances in public and the impossible-to-overlook rock on her left hand. Their fame is such that Lopez will make the official announcement on network television when she appears this week on ABC's Primetime Live with Diane Sawyer. This will be Affleck's first marriage; fortunately, Lopez can show him the ropes...
...measure of Victoria Beckham's fame that her rescue from a group of would-be kidnappers was only one of the major news stories she generated last week. There was also the matter of her new record deal and a squabble with a British soccer club over her name. Once known more popularly as Posh Spice, Beckham is currently half of England's most celebrated couple; she is married to soccer star David Beckham, who plays for Manchester United. Their combined profiles and incomes made her the target of a shadowy group of alleged art thieves who plotted to take...
...films was among his last, and it is hard to imagine the next installment without his contribution. Indeed, it is intriguing to consider what will become of the Potter franchise, now that Columbus is assuming a producer’s role while Alfonso Cuaron (of Y Tu Mama Tambien fame) takes over the helm for the third film, The Prisoner of Azkaban. The series is critic-proof, but it hardly matters—you’d have to be the worst sort of Muggle imaginable not to delight in the Potter fantasy...
...Cliff Bradshaw, Thomas P. Lowe ’05 is no étranger to said attention. Lowe starred as Murius in Les Miserables from 1998 to 2000 and Rum Tum Tugger in Cats from 2000 to 2001 on London’s West End. His biggest claim to fame, however, comes as a member of the British boy band “North and South.” At 19, his band’s single “Man, Not a Boy,” jumped to number seven on the U.K charts and reached number...