Word: fame
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...Chicago club owner and soon-to-be head of Chess Record Label. Chess and Waters are the subjects of “Cadillac Records” from writer/director Darnell Martin. Along with a stellar cast and soundtrack, the film tells the semi-true story of Chess’s famed Chicago record label and the struggle of introducing the music of its black artists to the mainstream. Leonard Chess, played by Adrien Brody, is the not-so-typical lower-middle class white man who takes the plunge into the music industry with the sole purpose of recording the colloquial black...
...legacy could be a tremendous asset.“I can imagine that there is such enormous respect for the Kennedy family that she certainly has that working in her favor,” Hunt said.But Kellerman, who is teaching a course this spring on women and leadership, said fame is not a qualification in itself. “The prerequisite is someone who can do the job and who can do it well,” she said, adding that Kennedy’s appointment would be “greeted with great applause from every political direction...
...abandoned both business and family to join a religious cult in Bolivia, leaving Betty behind with six kids and a floundering business. For the next 38 years, Betty carefully ran the company, finally selling it off when she reached 80. She was inducted into the Toy Industry Hall of Fame...
...What has it been like for you in becoming so famous? I don't feel I am. It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all. I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. I feel blessed that I can still do those things without...
...pace of the one-liners in Wishful Drinking is a little relentless, but it's as valid a way as any of depicting the floodlit, perspectiveless world of fame where Fisher has spent her life. It probably didn't strengthen Fisher's tenuous connection to consensus reality when at 19 she became a pop-culture icon as Princess Leia in Star Wars. Fisher says that she hated Leia's Cinnabon hair ("Give me a hairstyle that further widens my already wide face!") and that George Lucas wouldn't let her wear a bra; instead, he made her tape down...