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...Star Search contestant at age 10, Beyonce (it's her mother's maiden name) has rehearsed for fame her entire life. And she's still nervous. Despite the industry perception of Destiny's Child as Beyonce and two warm bodies in stilettos, she insists that Michelle Williams and her cousin Kelly Rowland are crucial collaborators, and she misses them. "It's scary. I've been singing with Kelly since I was 9, and every day of my life, every time I've been on a stage, every interview, she's [been] there. So it makes me nervous...
...Metaphysical Club was hardly his first taste of fame—a fame which extends to Harvard’s students as well as its top English faculty. Among hundreds of publications and press mentions in the last five years, Menand published “The Thin Envelope” in the pages of the New Yorker this April...
...delivered the Latin student oration, entitled “De Ignotis,” or “On the Forgotten.” He urged his fellow graduates to remember those who had made an impact on them regardless of their lack of fame, and to attempt to make a similarly lasting impact on others...
...intrusions are only part of the reason Rowling is uneasy with fame. "I never set out to make a mark," she tells TIME. "I set out to do the thing I love best in the world and find out whether I was any good at it." She's so good at it that her lawyers are constantly swatting down copycats trying to cash in on Pottermania. Her legal team recently won victories against a Chinese knock-off, Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon, and a Russian novel about Tanya Grotter, an orphan with magical powers who attends...
...born star got his big break on Broadway in 1935 in the Three Men on a Horse, and made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt in 1943. Cronyn and his wife and longtime stage partner, Jessica Tandy, were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1979, and each won a Tony for special lifetime theatrical achievement in 1994; Tandy died later that year. Cronyn once said he found film easier than the stage, but less satisfying: "My heart belongs to theater, which is really home and mother...