Word: fame
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...Victoria's Secret?CoCo Lee is a plain-talking, down-to-earth, family-loving pop star whose career has skyrocketed in a remarkably short time. A Hong Kong-California hybrid, CoCo got her big break in Taiwan with a karaoke hit in 1994, which she quickly parlayed into mass fame on the Chinese mainland. Disney hired her to do the Chinese voice-over for the movie Mulan (Celine Dion's big break, remember, was voicing Beauty and the Beast). Later one of her songs was chosen for the soundtrack to The Runaway Bride, the Julia Roberts-Richard Gere romance flick...
...early-'70s rock, and he was being shilled in a parking lot on the coincidence of a current movie title being the same as his band's name 30 years earlier! And the dubious claim of being an inspiration to a one-hit-wonder teen group whose claim to fame four years ago was a song called "Mmmmmmbop...
...There used to be a feature in the old Spy Magazine - a feature I used to occasionally write - called "Downhill from Here." The idea was that it was a portrait of some celebrity or public figure just a smidgen past the zenith of their fame, and how they were just about to start their descent. Bill Clinton is slaloming downhill fast; Alan Greenspan is about to start slouching toward the valley...
...childhood. During his half-hour talk, for which he arrived three hours late, the singer made reference to what he termed Generation O--"a generation that has everything on the outside...but an aching emptiness on the inside." Mostly Jackson used his time to paint a Hallmark Hall of Fame-style narrative of the emotional abuse heaped upon him by his father Joe. "I wanted a father who showed me love, and my father never did that," said Jackson. "He never gave me a piggyback ride; he never threw a pillow or a water balloon at me." After the speech...
...there's truth in the theory that bypass surgery damages the memory. Mine was once photographic. Now I have to work harder sometimes to fetch a name. The other day, for some reason, I wanted to retrieve the name of--you know, the gonzo journalist of fear-and-loathing fame...Rolling Stone...you know...But the once perfectly familiar words skittered off into the dark, and it was half a day before I caught sight of them as they dodged around another corner of the mind: Hunter Thompson...