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Cajun musicians are a colorful, immensely talented lot whose fame is just beginning to reach beyond the bayous and prairies of backcountry Louisiana. Among them are the scholarly accordionist Mark Savoy; guitar virtuoso Sonny Landreth; Michael Doucet, the leader of the fiery Cajun band Beausoleil; and Zydeco players like Keith Frank, Geno Delafose and Terrance Simien, whose dynamic marriage of white Cajun and black Delta blues offers a thrilling alternative to rap and processed...
Those who say supermodels are ahead of movie stars on the fame hierarchy may be right. But even if that is so, models are only models. Although I admire their beauty and elegance, Idon't respect them as much as I do talented actresses...
...article outraged most locals, who point out that Grisham helped pay to repair the Faulkner estate and rescued a new literary periodical, the Oxford American. Says novelist Barry Hannah, who has a formidable reputation but not Grisham's millions: "I guess in America if a guy gets some fame and celebrity, he can't seem to do anything right...
Grisham's fame and fortune are based on the law. The son of an itinerant construction worker, he graduated from the University of Mississippi law school and practiced criminal law for nine years in Southaven, outside Memphis. The experience gave him his particular take on an age-old formula: little guy triumphs over big guy. Or over the feds, the Klan, the Mafia, the cia, the fbi-or, in The Rainmaker, the insurance industry...
Aaron, one of the first Blacks in the major leagues, broke Babe Ruth's seemingly insurmountable career home run record in 1974 and was inducted into the Hall of Fame...