Word: famed
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...Fame is often difficult for parents to cope with; but surely it imposes upon them an obligation where their children are concerned. A lot of illustrious parents have produced unhappy offspring. Winston Churchill, himself a neglected child, did not do well with his profligate boozehound son Randolph. On the other hand, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis raised sane and decent children against what, one guesses, were considerable odds. Bill and Hillary Clinton, whatever their private shortcomings, seem to be faring well in giving their daughter a constructive, intelligent upbringing...
...whatever killed her, she has already become another entry on the roster of celebrities whose lives began in a swirl of glamour and ended in relative obscurity and pain. Defined by her beauty and her family's celebrity, Hemingway struggled to establish an independent identity as her looks and fame faded. In her final days, says a friend, Gigi Gaston, "she was back on her feet, and she looked beautiful. But I felt she was incredibly lonely...
...looked like an angel," he recalls. But others credited her rapid ascent to the Hemingway mystique. "As celebrity became aristocracy, it became inheritable," says former Interview magazine editor Bob Colacello, who knew Hemingway as part of the crowd at the now legendary Studio 54. "She inherited this fame and this position." Hemingway later said she felt like an imposter in that world and started drinking "to loosen...
HOSPITALIZED. CARL SAGAN, 61, Cornell University astronomer of Cosmos TV fame; for possible myelodysplasia, which can lead to leukemia; in Seattle...
Actress Liv Tyler is no doubt attractive, even talented [CINEMA, June 17]. She may be the new Grace Kelly or Audrey Hepburn, but right now her main claim to fame seems to be her "matter-of-fact ease with her sensuality." Famous actors like Kathy Bates, for example, or even Leslie Nielsen appear to be at ease with their sensuality. This is pointless, and as interesting as reading about the "quiet sexuality" of a turtle. RUTH SMETHERS Olathe, Kansas...