Word: limelighter
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...Despite Edwards and Puchtel’s lack of PT on the pitch, Puchtel can still ball on the hardwood. For now, this is the only outlet for his competitive drive, and the only opportunity to somehow remember the limelight of yesteryear...
...that's important to Grisham. He's a humble man. He has fierce political convictions--he's currently raising money for Democratic Senate candidate James Webb--but he shuns the limelight. He keeps his wife and two children out of the media. "They hear some crap every now and then," he says. "But I told them years ago, I said, Look, you can't change your name, and I'm not going to stop writing books. The good outweighs the bad. So shut up. Learn to deal with...
...improvisation troupe, On Thin Ice, took acting and writing classes with the New York City comedy group, Upright Citizens Brigade. Each also submitted scripts to the Pudding in previous years but were rejected during the comp process. Despite their newfound success backstage, neither writer has considered stepping into the limelight himself. “I would be in drag, but it’d have to be a loose-fitting dress, because there’s no hiding the bulge. It’d just be unbelievable,” Kollmer said. “I don?...
...feeling of fatigue--among people who pay any attention at all to celebrities, with stars who try to turn fascination with them into fascination with those who need help. Madonna is the latest in an endless line of "celanthropists" who have been trying to nudge some of their limelight onto the situation in Africa. And her protestations that "this is why I am famous, so that I can help people," do nothing to stop skepticism. But Sachs, who will accompany her to Malawi in October, is not among the cynics. "Of course there are people who on a fling...
...villain holds our interest, and some sympathy, in He Walked by Night, it's the heroes who reclaim the limelight in Border Incident, the first film Mann made for MGM after his very productive stint at Eagle-Lion. It's essentially a remake of T-Men: two agents go undercover in the underworld; one dies. Pablo Rodriguez (Ricardo Montalban) has come from Mexico to join U.S. Immigration official Jack Bearnes (George Murphy) with the intent - get this - of stanching the flow and exploitation of illegal farm workers coming up from Mexico. Pablo will pretend to be a bracero looking...