Word: limelight
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...Oprah to be on her show, though he says he'd like to meet her someday. "Too many ministers start out as servants and end up as celebrities," he says. "I want to use my influence to do some good, and I can get more done out of the limelight...
There are athletes who love the notoriety that comes with being a star and there are those who play off the attention they receive as unwanted, but who secretly relish the limelight...
Though they’d managed to stay just outside the limelight the previous night, it was clear by the middle of the third period Saturday that a repeat would be impossible...
...celebrity limelight certainly helped four years ago, when Barneys New York partnered with Cameron Silver of the Los Angeles vintage emporium Decades to introduce a limited line of vintage to the sales floor. "There was a spirit in fashion that was very vintage oriented, and it was being validated by people being photographed wearing vintage," says Barneys New York fashion director Julie Gilhart, who now sells the Decades line at trunk shows. "All of a sudden [vintage] was garnering this energy...
...more. He was hailed as a "Picasso who can do anything" (Frankfurt Modern Art Museum director Jean Christophe Ammann) and derided as the "Sylvester Stallone" of painting (TIME critic Robert Hughes). But he conquered the market with price tags of $300,000 and beyond, and captured his share of limelight as well. In the '90s, as painting took a cyclical downturn, Schnabel veered off into filmmaking, and even a one-album gig as a pop singer. His comeback show in Frankfurt, the most comprehensive retrospective of his work since a 1988 exhibit at New York City's Whitney Museum, covers...