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Some names benefit from a temporary faddishness. Selena was languishing at 780th place in 1990, but rose to 300th by 1994 as the fame of Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla grew. The name vaulted to No. 91 after Quintanilla's murder in 1995 but has since settled back to 352. Diego has enjoyed a similar bump, going from 186th place to 68th in the last decade, perhaps due to the popular boy sidekick in the ubiquitous Dora the Explorer cartoons. Designer Paloma Picasso may be giving a similar - if subtler - bump to my own daughter's name, which has gone from...
...Story 3-D and Toy Story 2 3-D, $12.5 million, first weekend 4. The Invention of Lying, $7.350 million, first weekend 5. Surrogates, $7.344 million; $26.4 million, second week 7. Capitalism: A Love Story, $4.850 million; $5.2 million, second week 6. Whip It, $4.850 million, first weekend 8. Fame, $4.754 million; $16.6 million, second week 9. The Informant!, $3.8 million; $26.6 million, third week 10. Love Happens, $2.8 million; $18.9 million, third week...
...because it knows how to party. As part of the bid process, each finalist city organized a meeting to show community support for the games. A few hundred people attended the events in Washington and Boston. In Cleveland, 7,000 people packed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to capacity, overflowing into an adjacent park on the Lake Erie shore. "It was a truly amazing evening," Schaaff says. The Gay Games are still five years off, but some Clevelanders already wonder what comes next. "Chicago had the Gay Games in 2006, and now they're bidding for the Olympics...
MICHAEL JORDAN, in a Sept. 11 speech marking his induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame...
...Heart. His parents moved with him to L.A. during Doogie's four-year run, and after it ended in 1993, Harris kept working in TV, film and theater, acquiring exactly the skills you'd need to go into show business in 1890: magic, acrobatics, singing and dancing. Because his fame came early, he's now more interested in doing fun stuff--reading at the Christmas show at his beloved Disney World, serving on the board of Hollywood's Magic Castle (a club for magicians), producing an interactive-mystery-theater piece called Accomplice: Hollywood--than in managing his career toward lead...