Word: limelight
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...raiser for Martin Scorsese's Film Preservation Foundation. The night is as curiously old-fashioned as its name, and all the more charming for it. The attendees are an odd grab-bag of celebrities. Some are legitimately A-list names having a B-list year out of the Academy limelight. Others are B-list names with A-list aspirations. And some are just from the fringes of some People magazine "Where Are They Now?" list, TV stars whose aura sparkles just on Nick at Nite. The hippest partygoers are the ones who exude a happy-to-be-there joie...
Living in the Limelight...
...best, most of which was done in the 1930s-50s. And he was, to all intents, the last celebrity of the old School of Paris--not quite a central figure but able to turn his marginality around so that it looked like aristocratic refusal of a slightly questionable limelight. "Balthus," he told a writer in the '60s, "is a painter about whom nothing is known"--and he did make every effort to lay false trails for would-be biographers...
...itching to return to politics after being cleared of corruption charges. That two-front struggle was captured in the most famous walk Sharon will probably ever make--his tour of the Temple Mount at the end of September. It was a maneuver designed to take the hard-line limelight from Netanyahu by asserting Israeli sovereignty over a site that is also claimed by Arafat. Yet Sharon also cast it as a move intended to show his faith that Jews and Muslims could live side by side. In the end, it touched off the violence that destroyed Barak's government...
...grandparents and parents are calling me because they want to know where their grandchildren and children can learn conjuring tricks." Barmann's colleague Wilfried Possin, the head of a magicians' organization in Frankfurt, attributes this surge of interest to Harry Potter: "The books have brought our trade into the limelight...