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...Hall is the kind of canvas graffiti artists long for. Unsullied and several stories high, its white surface can be seen from some of the city's busiest roads. It has never been "tagged" - to use graffiti parlance - but that doesn't deter local artist MC Yan, who is famous for having left his work on, of all places, the Great Wall...
HANKS When you just start out and no one knows you from Adam, nobody says to you, "What's with the hair?" You're just a guy, and that's the way your hair is. Then you become famous, and people say things like [miming shoving a mike in someone's face], "What do you mean by the hair?" That's what happened to me on the Da Vinci film...
...film Roger & Me, Michael Moore made General Motors CEO Roger Smith famous by unsuccessfully hounding him to account for plant closings and layoffs, part of the old-line leader's attempts to revitalize the auto giant during an era defined by a growing threat from Japanese cars. Smith was hailed by loyalists as a modernizer, but his massive downsizing and other efforts, including launching the Saturn division, failed in the end, and GM, which in the early '80s dominated the U.S. market at 46%, held just 35% by 1990. Smith...
...impact of celebrity endorsements is highly questionable, but that doesn't stop candidates from courting famous friends. Not everyone can claim Oprah or Streisand, but even martial-arts stars and porn kings create buzz. Test your campaign and pop-culture knowledge by matching up the endorsements below...
...starts out vague, but eventually pride gets the better of the young men. They acknowledge that the group first got its reputation by hacking 40% of the hacker associations' websites in China. That was during their "young and hotheaded college days," as Fisherman puts it. The NCPH is also famous for the remote-network-control programs they wrote and offered for download. These programs, which allow hackers to take over other computers, are exactly the kind that were used to obtain documents, spreadsheets and other materials from U.S. government offices in the most recent attacks...