Word: fame
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...Take a stroll on the north side of Hollywood Blvd. At no. 6721, in front of Joe's Diner, across from the Ripley's Believe It Or Not emporium, stop to glance down at the pavement. There you will see three consecutive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte and Oscar Micheaux. You recognize two of the names. The tan tantalizer Dandridge was the first black to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar ("Carmen Jones," 1955); Belafonte was and is the cool, sexy actor-singer with a half-century's radiance. But Micheaux? Considering...
...HAVE ENORMOUS FAME BUT STRIVE FOR PRIVACY. IS THAT HARD TO HANDLE...
...BOREMAN, 53, ex-pornography star best known by her former moniker, Linda Lovelace; of injuries from an April 3 car accident; in Denver. As the star of 1972's classic Deep Throat, a feature-length film that played in mainstream theaters and made some $600 million, Boreman rose to fame in the '70s. After publishing Ordeal, her 1980 autobiography--in which she charged that her abusive first husband forced her to take the role and that she made no money from it--she became a vocal antiporn advocate...
...actor played them all?the Tai Chi father, the chef father, father of a gay son, father of a woman warrior. His roles came to personify the Eastern patriarch caught in the winds of change sweeping the lives of his children. His careworn appearance was a factor in his fame. I originally wanted him in my productions because he had a face ethnic Chinese could identify with. But the reason Ang Lee and I cast Lung in the "Father Knows Best" trilogy?Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman?was because of his dedication...
...would figure merely that the hassle of having millions of adoring fans had finally become a bore. After all, amassing a fortune large enough to buy an island and indulging in enough random sex to overpopulate it can get a little wearing. But for Burmese artists and performers, fame is less about feast and more about frustration. Celebrity in this country is minor, yet it is only sustained through an endless series of personal and artistic compromises. Zaw Win Htut owns a cherry red Chevy Impala and has enough money to be considering sending his daughter to an Australian boarding...