Word: limelight
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While Kerkorian spends most of his time at home in Beverly Hills, Calif., plotting his next big deal, he leaves the day-to-day management of his empire to MGM Mirage CEO Terry Lanni, 61, a veteran casino executive who, like his boss, largely shuns the limelight. In a town famous for flashy characters, Lanni, who collects classic sports cars and carved wooden boxes in his spare time, has earned a reputation for integrity. Your good name, he insists, "is the one thing you can't afford to lose." Kerkorian is famous for having "ice water in his veins...
...icons will find a handy parenting primer in Vogue's upcoming age issue, as three generations of Presley women strut their genetic blessings. (The money ain't bad either.) LISA MARIE PRESLEY, 36, center, boasts that her daughter RILEY, 15, a model, has survived relatively unscathed the limelight that comes with being Elvis' granddaughter. "She's not a bimbo! She's not one of the Hollywood pretentious kids. She's not shallow," says Lisa Marie of Riley. "There are certain very affected Hollywood-celebrity kids that I never was raised as." And PRISCILLA, 59, is one all-right grandmama...
...never made her living in the limelight, the way a star quarterback, pitcher or even a field hockey forward would...
...Suzanne M. Pomey and Randy J. Gomes, both formerly members of the Class of 2002, were the most highly publicized of the last four years, yet the pair’s post-sentencing lives are also the most mysterious. Both have taken pains to remove themselves from the limelight. For this story, no headway was made into locating Gomes, and it took a lucky Internet search to track an otherwise unlisted Pomey down to Richmond, Va., where she had no comment on her post-Harvard career...
...fact that Summers and Bollinger were two of the four finalists in Harvard’s 2001 presidential search is no accident. Some members of the search committee had decided they wanted a president better suited to the limelight than Rudenstine and his peers...