Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...genuinely sorry for its limelight-grubbing pugilists. Perhaps most pathetic, in each fight one of the boxers had the name of a gambling websiite - goldenpalace.com - literally written on their skin. Because, you know, getting pummeled in front of a hooting crowd for a few more fleeting hits on the fame bong isn't truly humiliating unless you get branded like a steer...
...their more or less weekly performances have extended to such arenas as the Straus and Wigglesworth common rooms and several area elementary schools. The future may bring the group to the next level of fame, as plans include shows for audiences larger than a freshman entryway, live animals and Cambridge street perfomances (they recently acquired a permit). But perhaps the true sign that the Magic Club has hit it big is their upcoming gig at a Long Island bar mitzvah for the son of two Harvard alumni—their first paid performance...
...Road” and the Pogues’ “Sayonara.” The disc also features songs by Lord’s longtime friends Nick Saloman (of the Bevis Frond) and Grammy-winning mainstream breakout Shawn Colvin (of “Sunny Came Home” fame...
...close. And I fucked it up. I did everything I could do to fuck it up. I think that there was a part of me that just knew that it just wasn’t for me.” Lord’s discomfort with the prospect of fame can be found in a verse from her song, “Some Jingle Jangle Morning,” which was written in the early ’90s and eerily foreshadows the turmoil she would later experience...
...public gives stars their larger-than-life status, and then claims ownership over them. It’s true that celebrities choose their lifestyles;however, that choice doesn’t make public scorn and ridicule acceptable (or mature) responses to their misfortunes. Ryder toppled from a mountain of fame built up by all of us, yet somehow we blame her for having such a long way to fall...