Word: fame
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...Autograph Man is smaller than White Teeth in size and scope but not in themes. Religion, race, fame, death--Smith hits all the biggies here, and nearly every major character has a theory about at least one of them. Alex, for instance, is compiling a book that divides the world into people and things with "Jewish" traits (including poplar trees, Jimmy Stewart and John Lennon) and "goyish" traits (including oak trees, Elvis fans and the Jewish troubadour Leonard Cohen). It's inspired by a Lenny Bruce riff, the novel's epigraph, but it becomes a predictable dog-people...
...autograph, she writes, he blanches because a "peer [has] become an acolyte." As one of the very greatest of living ballplayers, still venerated by fans--especially Jewish fans, who embraced him with a fervor bordering on idolatry--Koufax could build a very profitable life out of his fame, yet he appears at maybe one autograph show a year, content to make a living instead of a killing. He has elected, writes Leavy, to "opt out of his celebrity...
...seems to have no real connection to her fans—any listener who genuinely dresses and acts like that would most likely not appreciate lyrics like “I’m not the milk and Cheerios in your spoon.” What makes her fame so absurd, though, is that she absolutely cannot sing. My dog could cut an album and sound just about as talented...
BOSTON—Among the most humorous moments of A.J. Mleczko’s induction into the New England Women’s Sports Hall of Fame was a result of the ironic choice of the evening’s honorary chair, Digit Murphy, coach of Harvard’s archrival Brown...
...stranger to honors—with two Olympic medals, a national championship, a wedding ring and a USA Hockey bobblehead doll already to her name. Yet her induction into the New England Women’s Sports Hall of Fame Tuesday night was a unique achievement in its own right...