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...that fame, all of a sudden. What was it all about? Even back then, Bruce Springsteen was too smart to try to find out. Except one time...
There are at least three answers. They all are (or were) celebrated performers. All won fame using pseudonyms: namely, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor and George Burns; John Garfield, Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis; and Peter Lorre, Jill St. John, Paul Muni and Lauren Bacall. Most important, all are dramatic examples of the way many Jews have dissembled as a way of evading anti-Jewish sentiments while at large in gentile America...
...newspapers, saying he would pay them to tell him of their lives. And he wrote. A failed poet, for good reason, he aimed at capturing his life, the lives of others and his part of the 20th century in an unblemished account that would bring him fame...
DIED. LANE SMITH, 69, character actor whose work included stage, film and TV performances (including the original Broadway production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross) but who won his greatest fame late in his career for his exacting, critically hailed portrayal of Richard Nixon in the 1989 docudrama The Final Days; of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease; in Los Angeles...
...anchor and writer for 14 years at ABC and NBC, Linda Ellerbee achieved her own kind of fame as a television personality--outspoken, irreverent and insightful. She was a real-life Murphy Brown, and the rumor was that she inspired the sitcom. This month Ellerbee, 60, comes out with a new book, Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table. She spoke with TIME's ANDREA SACHS about an array of topics, from women in TV news to her battle with cancer...