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...DIED. Mickey Hargitay, 80, hunky Budapest-born athlete who rose to fame as a champion bodybuilder and actor whose films included Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, co-starring his then wife, screen siren Jayne Mansfield; in Los Angeles. In the mid-'50s the newly anointed Mr. Universe caught the eye of an aging Mae West, who hired him as one of eight loincloth-clad musclemen in her popular nightclub revue. He met Mansfield at a performance, where the impressed star is said to have told a waiter, "I'll have a steak and the man on the left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

DIED. Mickey Hargitay, 80, hunky Budapest-born athlete who immigrated to the U.S. in the late 1940s and rose to fame as a champion bodybuilder and actor whose films included Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, co-starring his then wife, screen siren Jayne Mansfield (together, at left); in Los Angeles. In the mid-'50s the newly anointed Mr. Universe--whose daughter Mariska tearily thanked her dad onstage last month when accepting an Emmy for her role on NBC's Law & Order: SVU--caught the eye of an aging Mae West, who hired him as one of eight loincloth-clad musclemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 2, 2006 | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

...general viewing public,” he says. “A lot of the contestants are more educated or career-oriented than the current stereotype of gay males.” Smith’s ex-boyfriend and close friend, Tyler Duckworth, has already achieved marginal fame with a stint on MTV’s The Real World Key West, but he’s still right behind his man. “I think it’s fantastic. It’s fucking fantastic,” Duckworth says. “Because he?...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Even Better than the Harvard Degree | 9/20/2006 | See Source »

...down for a tête-à-tête with Anne­-Marie Zapf-Belanger ’09, the Toronto native who skyrocketed to fame last spring when she posted a “casual encounters” ad on Craigslist for a tryst in Widener. Within hours the post hit the open list circuit, sparking debate about everything from morals to missionary. Zapf-Belanger responded in a mass e-mail, informing the world that she was serious, and still interested in shaking up the stacks...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: When the Red Phone Rings: Her 15 Minutes of Fame | 9/20/2006 | See Source »

...worth, the most beautiful is Bruce Wagner's Memorial), but also it is by Ken Jennings--you know, the Mormon computer-programmer celebrinerd who, beginning in 2004, rattled off a record-breaking 74-game Jeopardy! winning streak. Good enough for $2.5 million and 15 minutes of syndicated fame, but a book deal seems like a stretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Obsessive Nerds for $1,000, Alex | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

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