Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These days, you don't get 15 minutes of fame, you get maybe 15 seconds. Thirty if you're good. And then -- bang! We're tired of your sorry shtick already. Bring us a younger Debbie Gibson. Fetch us a prettier Julia Roberts. Get us a funnier Denis Leary...
...Fame's clock is ticking fast, Leary knows. "You can be the 'two words' guy for two years and make millions," he says, chain-smoking in his manager's New York City office, "and then the next thing you know you're driving around with no work. People are coming up to you like, 'Didn't you used to be Denis Leary...
...comedy concert by Adam Sandier of Saturday Night Live fame...
...dated Brooke Shields, but the actress says, with a smile in her voice, "He has not asked me to marry him. Maybe that's going to be on the next Oprah show." Shields, 27, also grew up naked before the camera and understands the slash and burn of early fame. "It is very hard," she says of Jackson, "when your family turns against you, and when anyone you befriend slaps you in the face. It would amaze you the way people hurt him. What amazes me even more is his willingness to forgive. He acknowledges their frailty, and he allows...
...changed to "no, no don't eat us." What, revelation. It seemed like a cool idea, an entire rice community, rather like the Smurfs, who lived in a socialist collective commune. Kibbutzniks, as it were. I saw little rice dolls for sale in Toys R Us. I saw fame and fortune. I saw an idea that didn't go anywhere...