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...Donnell is the underdog in this battle, since she has admitted she never read the contract she is contesting (which gave Brewster veto power over her decisions). But beyond the legal dispute is a conundrum about the nature of fame. What is that fragile commodity called celebrity? Who is "Rosie...
...would get off campus. I thought Bryan’s girlfriend would watch it and then go ‘awww!’ and that’d be it,” says Nguyen. Instead, the video spread like a virus over college networks and brought worldwide fame to their residential complex House I, whose name they spell out with their bodies at the end of the video. It has been particularly popular on Harvard servers. “A friend told me she had seen the video and that it scared her and ruined the song...
...Fame and wealth came late for Patrick O'Brian. He was already 55 in 1970 when he published Master and Commander, the first of what would be 20 volumes in his irresistible naval saga set in the time of the Napoleonic wars. But by the time the last volume appeared in 1999, O'Brian's tales of Captain Jack Aubrey and his shipmate Dr. Stephen Maturin had become Harry Potter for grownups. Each new book was a heavily anticipated publishing event among not only weekend sailors but also people whose only prior encounter with seafaring had been Sloop John...
...wasn't even O'Brian. He was born Richard Russ, the last of nine children of a bankrupt English physician who dispersed the family after his wife died. As a young man, Russ/O'Brian abandoned a wife, son and dying infant daughter to pursue a writer's life. When fame arrived and the world tracked him to the south of France, where he had lived since 1950 with his second wife, he invented a new past. But a biography by Dean King published just after O'Brian's death revealed that despite O'Brian's claims, he was never...
...radio history; in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Under producer Phil Spector, the group stood out as white artists in a genre dominated by black musicians. The duo's hits included Unchained Melody and (You're My) Soul and Inspiration. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year...