Word: fame
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...past 29 years, was exposed as an inventor of his own world of imaginative appeal. For several years Ellis has been using tales from his days as a platoon leader and paratrooper in Vietnam to help animate his popular course Vietnam War and American Culture. As his fame increased, Ellis began sharing his war stories with journalists and colleagues. The problem is that Ellis never served in Vietnam, as the Boston Globe disclosed last week. He rode out the war doing graduate work at Yale and teaching history at West Point...
...stop until 1997--more than 100 albums later. In 1989 Hooker won his first of four Grammy Awards for a version of his 1951 million-selling single, I'm in the Mood, which he rerecorded with Bonnie Raitt. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award at last year's Grammys...
...same objectivity that allowed Boris to admire Barbara even as she took him apart also enables him to see that his career created an entity beyond himself - a creature of fame named Boris Becker - that threatens to trap him in a life of fraudulence. He can't decide if his life is a Wagnerian opera or a Beckett farce, so he takes himself too seriously and pokes fun at himself, often at the same time. He recently finished shooting a movie in Germany, playing himself. "Yeah, myself," he says. "Whatever Boris I'm supposed to be that...
...Brazil to Thailand. His popularity even prompted a dispute over authorship. Larry Harmon, an early Bozo who bought the rights to the character in 1956, for years promoted himself as Bozo's creator, until Livingston and others exposed this as revisionist clown history. The embarrassed International Clown Hall of Fame even took down Harmon's plaque for a Lifetime of Laughter Achievement Award when it learned of the deception. Harmon, 76, sidesteps questions about Bozo's origins, but he still owns the rights and says he's eager to repackage the character for future TV, movie and theme-park deals...
...past 29 years, was exposed as an inventor of his own world of imaginative appeal. For several years Ellis has been using tales from his days as a platoon leader and paratrooper in Vietnam to help animate his popular course Vietnam War and American Culture. As his fame increased, Ellis began sharing his war stories with journalists and colleagues. The problem is that Ellis never served in Vietnam, as the Boston Globe disclosed last week. He rode out the war doing graduate work at Yale and teaching history at West Point...