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...Leno called it "the single most amazing thing to ever happen to me." Actress Molly Ringwald said she went into shock. Even for those accustomed to the spotlight, being on the cover of TIME Magazine is a major milestone. But what happens when someone who isn't famous, or even a model, actually wakes up one day to find themselves the face of America's most popular newsmagazine...
There is, finally, a Zen paradox to hosting. You must be a celebrity and a commoner; you must be present and absent, ceding your guests the spotlight; you must know what to say and, more important, what not to. Several hosts and producers interviewed for this article repeated the importance of "getting out of the way" of the show. Seacrest says that his job is to make Idol "clever," but adds, "That doesn't mean I say something clever. I know when Simon is gearing up to say something. I can read it on his face. A host...
After 20 years of putting presidential candidates on the spot, celebrated broadcast journalist Jim C. Lehrer will command the spotlight today when he reports to graduates of the Class...
...between Viswanathan’s book and McCafferty’s sequel, “Second Helpings.” That weekend, The Crimson identified more than a dozen such passages. “Opal Mehta” and its author were suddenly propelled back into the national media spotlight. The plagiarism controversy made the front page of the Times and was the top story in The Boston Globe. NBC’s Today Show, CNN, and newspapers from Great Britain to India covered the story concerning these similar passages in the three “chick-lit?...
...another child to participate in an after-school basketball program.Doing this kind of local finance work, Bilmes says, “You see the connections between the big billions and trillions and the hundreds and thousands.”It was the big trillions that brought Bilmes into the spotlight this past year, when her estimation that the Iraq war would cost America, as a mid-range projection, $2.2 trillion, made headlines across the world. “It’s impossible to evaluate the cost and benefits of the war if you don’t have...