Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night mincemeat out of himself and others present like Geena Davis, Kathy Bates, Loni Anderson and Xena Warrior Princess. Hollywood often sets itself up for ridicule. (Remember Jessica Lange testifying on the farm crisis because she played a farmer's wife?) But isn't it better to use your fame for something other than getting a table at Spago Beverly Hills? Mavis has been criticized as misinformed by a tiny but noisy pro-Taliban lobby, whose frequent spokesperson is Laili Helms, the Afghan-born daughter-in-law of former CIA chief Richard Helms. Its protest outside the party was menacing...
...soon confirmed what Richard Smith already suspected: that someone had hijacked skyroket@aol.com's account. (The real owner, Scott Steinmetz of Lynnwood, Wash., squeezed a good 15 min. of fame out of the mix-up.) The culprit, AOL discovered, had logged on from New Jersey. A high-tech FBI-police unit there narrowed the possibilities still further. "Eventually," says deputy attorney general Christopher Bubb, "we were able to trace it back to the specific telephone that was being used." It belonged to David Smith...
...forces of law and order have already made a powerful point. Time was when virus writers were able to act with impunity and bask in the glow of hacker fame. Now the same technology that allowed their work to spread so freely is being used to catch them. The irony was not lost on Spanska, creator of the Happy99 virus. "The perfect virus writer should not communicate with nobody," he wrote last week. He plans to disconnect his e-mail for a while and "think a little." The Melissa case should give him and his pals plenty of food...
...appeared on The Cosby Show as Grandpa Al, was known for perfect musical timing and the intimacy he conveyed in his blues and ballads, most famously his trademark Every Day (I Have the Blues). Among his many honors: a star next to Basie's on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (see Eulogy...
Radical mastectomy is inevitably traumatic, a disfigurement of a part of the body that our culture sees as the focus of a woman's femininity and sexual appeal. Motichka turned that trauma into both therapy and art; the pictures made her famous. Still, she says, the fame and exposure could not make up for the fact that she had lost a breast. "All was good on the surface," she says, "but that didn't mean I didn't have difficulty walking down the street." Beyond that, active involvement with oncologists and advocacy groups was educating Motichka about treatment options...