Word: fame
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...books about your family? Kennedy: I don't. There are a lot of other things that I want to learn about. I kind of know that territory. I did read some books by people who served with my father in the White House. TIME: You have enormous fame but strive for privacy. Is that hard? Kennedy: It's been a part of my life, and the reasons for it are something I'm immensely proud of - my parents' work and the work of my uncles [Robert and Ted]. In that way, it's a very nice tribute to them...
Winter 8-8:30 "30 Seconds to Fame" 8:30-9 "Meet the Marks" 9-10 "Septuplets...
Written in 1994, the film was originally a vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio, who had not yet achieved fame for Titanic. But a lack of funding and various studios’ reluctance to cast a pre-stardom DiCaprio put the film in limbo...
...Lauryn Hill lost it? Hill became an instant superstar with the release of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill in 1998. She won five Grammys, including Album of the Year, and sold 12 million records, but ever since she has been cruising on fame's dark side. First, she was sued by members of her band who demanded Miseducation production credits. Then she disappeared from the spotlight, sparking persistent rumors that had her fighting with her former band mates in the Fugees, becoming an Evangelical Christian or dealing with serious marital problems. Hill has not done a lengthy interview...
Hill is talented enough, however, to make her purges kind of interesting. Oh Jerusalem, a song that, like most of Unplugged's other tracks, mixes biblical imagery with self-dread and confusion, deals eloquently with the well-worn theme of struggling with fame. "Naked as the day that I was born," she sings, "I tried to hide, behind education and philosophy/ Hopeless explanation to describe a situation, I can't see because the world's on top of me." Hill lifts her game while beating herself down. At the end of the first disc, on the standout I Gotta Find...