Word: limelighting
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MORTY ROSENFELD WAS SO STONED on Euphoria, a hot new synthetic drug, that he danced faster than a speeding cursor on a computer screen. It was 3 o'clock one morning last July at the Limelight, one of New York City's wildest night spots, and the computer-generated "techno" music was deafening. Not the best place for an interview, perhaps, but Rosenfeld, 21, a promoter who did marketing work for the club, insisted on this surreal setting. He feared that the interview could be some kind of setup arranged by Secret Service or FBI agents, and thus he wanted...
LIKE A TIN PAN ALLEY TROUPER, ROSS PEROT HAS A craving for the limelight and for Larry King Live. His latest gig casts him as head of a new watchdog group, designed to badger Bill Clinton and Congress about federal spending and the deficit. Before a crowded Dallas press conference, a pleased Perot unveiled new versions of the old props -- the fiscal charts, an 800 number and TV commercials -- that helped him capture 19% of the vote in November. Then he regaled reporters (or at least himself) with a scratchy rendition of Patsy Cline's smash hit Crazy...
...responsibility, but Charles' downfall was marrying a superstar, a charismatic beauty, perhaps the world's most photogenic woman. Thirteen years his junior and barely out of her teens when they married in 1981, Diana quickly discovered her extraordinary hold on the public. Her residences are London and the limelight. Especially in the past few years, as her two sons have been in school, she has defined her own life and goals with scant reference...
Plenty has changed in the course of this pundit-shaming year, and fast. And now that almost everyone's ready for a breath of fresh, Arkansasan air, George Bush has tottered out of the limelight. He's been on a fishing trip in Florida for a while, and his friends are saying that he just isn't fishing like he used...
...only disasters in the cast are Michael L. Johnson as Eilif Stockmann, who tries to enlarge his tiny piece by hamming it, and the townspeople, who lose all discipline in their rush to make the most of their five minutes in the limelight...