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Although some drivers seem faceless to students, others have achieved an unusual renown. Mary E. Baker '95, a student-driver of shuttle vans and resident of North House, has a following rivaling that of the Grateful Dead. Some call her "The Shuttle Queen...
...asking, "What's the point?" Sure, it's more palatable than most celebrity albums, although that's not saying much, but it's all been done before. It's unclear whether Bernhard herself knows what the point is; it's probably that she likes to sing and has the renown and money to put out an album. But, she doesn't have enough faith in her singing to let it speak for itself. In "The Letter," one of several spoken word tracks on the album, she imitates a whining fan: "Oh Christ. Why is she singing? I didn...
...idea was for 10 film directors of eccentric renown to take the title but not the plot of a '50s exploitation epic from the vault of American International Pictures and, on a miserly budget of $1.3 million, spin a hip variation on it. So Allan Arkush (Rock 'n' Roll High School) picked Shake, Rattle and Rock; Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat) selected Cool and the Crazy; Joe Dante (Gremlins) chose Runaway Daughters; Uli Edel (Last Exit to Brooklyn) took Confessions of a Sorority Girl; William Friedkin (The Exorcist) got Jailbreakers; Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused) chose Reform School Girl; Mary Lambert...
...patter on Yankees TV broadcasts -- and for his call of "backseat petting" on Meat Loaf's hit song Paradise by the Dashboard Light -- than for his great-field, great-bunt playing days. But even then, James persuasively argues, he didn't have the numbers or the earned renown of Pee Wee Reese, a Hall of Famer, or of George Davis and Vern Stephens, who are faint memories...
Society now is all too ready to blame the victim, while simultaneously making a victim of the perpetrator. Leo Braudy, author of The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History, says "The celebrity is constantly being told how great and wonderful he is by a phalanx of yes-men and supporters, so his sense of self-justification is so much stronger. In O.J.'s mind and in his so- called suicide note, he is the victim." Before this is over, Nicole will be the bitch who ate Brentwood and asked for everything she got. As for O.J? He was only...