Word: fame
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...Will Smith, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Johnny Depp) and even more famous celebrities (Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, Lindsay Lohan), but no one besides Clooney is so gracefully both. After an actor achieves media saturation, there's actually an inverse relation between fame and box-office receipts: people aren't going to pay for what they can get for free. "There are so many media outlets and this enormous suck on information about you, it's hard to maintain any kind of aura of specialness and mystery about the work itself, which...
...because he doesn't want it to backfire into a Hollywood-vs.-the-heartland attack. And he downplays and occasionally jokes about his problems, which include a bad back and some short-term memory loss he sustained when working on Syriana, quiet. "I know what pisses people off about fame," Clooney says. "It's when famous people whine about...
...effortless movie star, but he has actually given the job a lot of thought. He's not manipulative, but he is calculating, following the rules he learned from his family. When his aunt Rosemary Clooney went from being on the cover of this magazine to seeing her fame burst because musical tastes changed, she battled depression and took pills for much of her life. He knows random luck will eventually take fame away, just as random luck made him a star. If NBC had put ER on Fridays instead of Thursdays, I might have had Jonathan Silverman over for dinner...
...Harry Caray he wasn't. But graphic designer Karl Ehrhardt achieved cult fame among baseball fans as the New York Mets' self-appointed commentator. From 1964 to 1981, the "Sign Man of Shea Stadium"--whom the Mets flew to the 1973 World Series for good luck--sat in the stands and held up hundreds of prepared block-lettered placards to tweak (JOSE CAN YOU SEE? when Jose Cardenal struck out) or praise (IT'S ALIVE! when a weak player got a hit). "I called them the way I saw them," he said...
...phenomenon that attracts what I call the people who make the country work. I don't think politicians and elected officials and bureaucrats and even the media are responsible for the greatness of the country. I think it's individual Americans laboring in anonymity, not seeking fame, just trying to get by, play by the rules, work hard, ordinary people doing extraordinary things. And those are the people who listen to talk radio. And the media think that they're all hayseeds and hicks without minds of their own. When in fact they are totally independent thinkers. And most...