Word: stardom
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...first attempt at athletic stardom came as a fifth-grader when I joined a little League team. By the end of the first week, the coach had convinced my mother that my talents actually equipped me better for softball than baseball. As it turned out, he was mistaken. I was equally ill-suited for softball and languished on the bench much of the season after amassing double digits in both batting average and number of fielding errors...
Degrees of Stardom: Although at the time I met him, Keanu had just been promoted in the legions of teeny-bopper magazines from `star' to `superstar,' Barbra was clearly the reigning prima donna. I was just another kid to Barbra. I was something more to Keanu--I was Keanu's friend...
...fleeting brushes with stardom. A brief synopsis and analysis of these two encounters reveals American pop-movie stars to be a bizarre and varied breed. The inevitable products of mass consensus in popular tastes and superficial public whims, these poor souls venture out into the world either basking in the public attention which sustains them, or else fleeing from it in terror. In the end though, one realizes the absurdity in all this manufactured fame, the perverse incongruity of ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations...
...afternoon wound down, Keanu fled to His red Porsche. The sweet pixie dust fragrance of stardom gave way to the smell of freshly-cut grass as the girls sighed and the twinkle was extinguished from their eyes...
Tanks for the Memory At first Hollywood stardom did not improve KEIKO'S life. Sure, the orca had all the fish he wanted, and kids loved him. But the 3.5-ton star of the hit movie Free Willy had outgrown his tank at a Mexico City amusement park, and he suffered from a herpes-like skin condition. After an outpouring of letters, his Mexican owners are donating him to a more spacious aquarium in Oregon, where he will be readied for a life of freedom in the waters off Iceland...