Word: stardom
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Some entertainers overestimate the value of their popularity. Stardom does not give the Dixie Chicks the right to spew their political views to people who are paying to hear them perform. If politics is more important to them than their music, they should run for office. Count me among the many who will never forget their indiscretion at a time when the country needed unity...
...career to chronicling, in his words, "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Among the best-known images: Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart laughing conspiratorially in a 1957 photo called The Kings of Hollywood, left, which Smithsonian magazine called the "Mount Rushmore of stardom...
...three students are now holding auditions to find their final two members. All auditions will be taped and posted to Shield’s website, www.kingstoneentertainment.com. In early May, Harvard students will be able to cast their votes to determine which two performers will receive tickets to stardom. Once the members have been finalized, they will work together to compose songs and choreograph dance moves for a for an end of the year debut performance, says Shields. Shields and Howland anticipate great success for their group, grounding their assumption in the positive feedback they received after performing a dance...
...prodigy; Tunes was a skilled keyboard player, working on hip-hop-influenced instrumentals in a small studio he’d set up in a closet at his family’s home. Soon the friends were talking about combining their skills and the far-off, thrilling prospect of stardom...
Diane L. Nabatoff ’78, also a graduate of the Harvard Business School ’82, is the producer of the Antonio Banderas vehicle “Take the Lead.” An English concentrator who initially dreamt of singing stardom, Nabatoff founded the female a capella group, The Radcliffe Pitches. She continued to break ground for women at Harvard when she became the first female producer of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals...