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...marriage mayor ... I'm an icon of myself." - on how his same-sex marriage push has defined his reputation, The Advocate, April...
...Chanel and Tati aren't the first historical figures with (in)famous smoking addictions to have their cigarettes posthumously confiscated. In 1996, for example, France's postal service issued a stamp of French culture and political icon André Malraux using a well-known photo of him - though only after the smoldering butt visible in his hand in the original had been removed...
...careful of our South African stories,' " says Kenneth Nkosi, who played Tsotsi's friend Aap. "'Do not tell our stories in the wrong way. Remember that there is no one in the world who is not flawed.' He was saying: 'I am a man. I am not this perfect icon Hollywood makes me out to be. That's not the truth.' And a movie that doesn't ring true is a movie that's no good...
...knew that would be the result, I would've thought about the taxes earlier.' DAVID PATERSON, New York governor, on the conservative icon's threat to skip town...
Therein lies the rub. Between the safe harbor of girl icon and the beckoning shores of ingenue-dom are treacherous shoals. And just at the age when young people have some license to make mistakes, hers are monitored and widely broadcast. "There's no way to circumvent the Internet," says her manager, Jason Morey. "And there's no way to stop a girl from growing up without creating something that's not real. Could we handcuff Miley and stick her in a box and tell her, 'Don't grow up'? We could try, but there's nothing more uninteresting...