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...like the typical male sports fan in that respect. But in spite of this widespread apathy, there are some female athletes who have achieved fame and great financial success. Women like Maria Sharapova, Mia Hamm, and Danica Patrick have all become marketing icons, far outshining their peers—in some cases, peers who are actually better players. They, along with others like Anna Kournikova, have used more than just their athletic ability to gain this fame: They’ve also used their looks...
...where the majority of cubers competed for status among the little-known speedcubing subcultures of their home countries, for others fame and fortune, relatively speaking, was at stake...
...have known who George Grizzard was; renown on the stage (he won a Tony for Best Actor in A Delicate Balance) doesn't translate to mass fame as it once did. But whether you saw him as an oilman in Comes a Horseman with Jane Fonda, as an imperious lawyer on Law and Order or the ghost of Rue McClanahan's husband (a recurring role!) on The Golden Girls, you knew that that actor was those people. As Andre Bishop told the Los Angeles Times, "What was remarkable about his acting was he didn't seem to be acting...
...time. 2. David A. “DA” Wallach ’07: the man’s music was on Entourage. A recent grad and former FM columnist, Wallach and classmate Maxwell C. Drummey ’07 make up Chester French, a band gaining fame quickly, especially after the screen time they received while the credits rolled on an episode of Entourage. 3. Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006: the mastermind behind Facebook.com would definitely win the ladies over with his wealth of personality. Seriously—one convo with this former Harvard...
...brings each of them to grief, and often to death or insanity. Guy adheres to traditions which sometimes he does not fully understand but in whose goodness he has deep faith. The beauty of the trilogy comes through Guy’s internal struggles to reject the temptations of fame and glory in order to cleave to rules and strictures that seem to do him only harm. In Guy’s eventual attainment of happiness, Waugh crafts a condemnation of a modernity that discards traditions simply for the sake of discarding them, a modernity he paints as disordered...