Word: fandom
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...public service announcement to the fans seated in Section 11: The name Danis is pronounced as one would expect a French name to be: DAN-ee. You, the sometime-costumed, ever-inebriated, face-painted fandom, chose to call him DANE-is. On the other hand, this may have been done on purpose, due to the enhanced rhyming possibilities inherent in your version...
Stefan P. Jackiw ’07 of Boston summed up the feelings of a grieving fandom. “This sucks,” Jackiw said...
...storyline that fans hold sacrosanct. Writer Robert Skir's decision to create a darker, organic Cybertron for the 1999 CGI television series _Beast Machines: Transformers_ won him few popularity points with the fandom. Skir's actions earned him numerous death threats, and incited more hate than a thousand Bin Laden speeches. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the latest incarnation of the series has abandoned any pretense of a maturity and delivers bland, insipid episodes aimed at pre-schoolers who like their primary colors with a dash of Energon...
...government mints pennies, as when Alex wanders into a bar "to have a drink, maybe drinks, maybe drinkseses." And she has a feel for the peculiarly male, geeky world of collectordom. But while she finds myriad arresting ways to say celebrity is a modern religion--"All fandom is a form of tunnel vision: warm and dark and infinite in one direction"--that doesn't make the idea less banal, nor does it obviate the need for emotional investment. At a climactic moment, facing his father's impending yahrzeit (the anniversary of his death), Alex still protests, "I don't feel...
There's a sweet dizziness to Cantopop fandom that's reminiscent of the innocent bobby-sox frenzy of the Sinatra years. At Lau concerts, his fans hold up flash cards that spell out his name in English; a group of votaries rented a minibus and trailed him from one Taiwan concert to the next. (In return, each year around his birthday, Lau attends parties thrown by his fan clubs.) If fans don't stalk the stars, the insatiable paparazzi do. "They follow me everywhere," says Leslie Cheung. "I don't even put my litter outside the house anymore. People...