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...Lopez's fame owed less to his talent than to his location: New York City. If you can make it there, the self-obsessed Big Apple media often assume, you can make it anywhere. And now they're saying it about Michael Bloomberg, another solid local performer who wouldn't get a second look if he hailed from Tampa Bay. Bloomberg has made the covers of both Time and Newsweek, the latter promising that his would be "one of the most significant third-party bids for the White House in American history." "He will not run to be a spoiler...
...during which the onetime vegetable seller from a small village in Hunan province had vaulted to Internet stardom as a kind of digital knight errant; his blog, Zhou Shuguang's Golden Age, publicized the plight of the victims of China's frantic economic boom. At the peak of its fame, the blog drew 20,000 readers a day. Zhou, who called himself Zola after the 19th century French writer and activist, had hoped to inspire some of the country's 47 million other bloggers to join him in the good fight, roaming the country and seeking out injustice, armed only...
...Zhou, it was a moment of revelation. He decided that, as a single, jobless Chinese citizen who "firmly believes in individual freedom," he was perfectly suited to devoting himself to "helping evicted and displaced persons." He also cheerfully declared his aim of "hyping" his way to fame so he would "never go back to selling vegetables." Traveling on a shoestring budget and relying on donations from admirers and the people to whose aid he came, Zhou preached the digital gospel, educating his pupils in the arts of establishing a blog, posting, taking digital photos and videos, using instant-messaging tools...
...grew up playing hockey with his dad and his sisters. And his heroes were musicians. "Kurt Cobain and Bono," he said. "I guess they were about the only heroes I really had. I wasn't raised on movies." He moved to Los Angeles at the age of 19, and fame came very quickly, including a big break in the 2000 movie The Patriot co-starring fellow Aussie Mel Gibson. Celebrity had its discontents, though he found solace with the actress Michelle Williams and their daughter Matilda. But he complained about the scrutiny and the pervasiveness of the paparazzi. "They talk...
Rudy Giuliani: He took a big gamble, effectively skipping the early round of contests and staking everything on Florida. Will his 9/11 fame carry him through there? Giuliani has spent most of the past year leading in Florida, but has been sinking there in recent weeks, to the point where he now trails McCain in the latest polls...