Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Ironically, Joe’s pathetic tale endears him to Kelly’s radio audience, and as the mockery turns to empathy, Joe’s down-to-earth goodness makes him a sort of a national champion, a tragic hero of the trailer class. His newfound fame quickly propels him into a variety of adventures, as he continues to search for his parents (oddly, Dirt never thinks to search for his sister, who has also been separated from him since he was eight...
...addressed simply PEE-WEE, HOLLYWOOD, making him the only man with a functioning address shorter than Santa Claus'. He had publicly become Pee-wee exclusively, showing up in character even for print interviews, and having Pee-wee, not Reubens, as the name on his star on the Walk of Fame that was jackhammered up after the scandal. "This was my own private joke on conceptual art because I tried to make Pee-wee Herman totally real. It worked really good but totally backfired when I got arrested," he says...
...round of finger pointing after the Santana shooting spree, many of you felt that we in the news business share some of the blame for school violence. "Instant fame is one 'Columbine effect,' and TIME bestowed it on the shooters," wrote a Californian, who added, "You may inspire more killing." Echoing the point, a reader from Charlotte, N.C., declared, "A better headline for your cover would have been 'The Media Effect.' The relentless coverage of these tragedies provides a blueprint for every disillusioned kid in America to exact revenge." And a New York City reader urged us to "stop publishing...
...teacher, Gary Soneji (Michael Wincott), at a posh D.C. academy. But Soneji's not really after the little girl-he's involved in an international conspiracy, a.k.a. "the crime of the century." Duh! So he contacts Detective Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman), because he is not after money-it's fame he wants, and Cross, being a renowned author and psychological profiler, is the perfect person to make sure that the book never closes on Soneji's self-declared evil deeds...
What makes Along Came A Spider such a travesty is the fact that it fails even at formula. Cross may be an expert profiler, but Soneji is no "spider"-only a deluded man with deluded dreams of fame. When he confronts Cross, crying and blaming his parents for not being there for him, his cheap trauma complex is enough to make anybody grimace in disgust. This supposedly cool, calculating kidnapper is nothing but a whiny little boy filled with self-pity. Now who wants someone like that to go down in history...