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...fact: When freshman bee co-host George A. Thampy '10 (of "Spellbound" fame) competed in the National Spelling Bee in 1999, he misspelled "kirtle" as "curtle"—the same way that contestant Julie M. Zauzmer '13 did in this week's competition. “My sympathy was all with her in that moment,” he said. The error had cost Thampy the championship, causing him to place third. Fortunately for Zauzmer, her stakes were lower...
...probably the coolest parties that first night at CPAC were secret ones - invite-only passes palmed to a select few. The first one was hosted by the Poker Players Alliance and included CPAC's It kids: James O'Keefe (of ACORN pimp fame) and his three cohorts who recently tangled with the law by messing with Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu's phone lines, antitax champion Grover Norquist, conservative media personality Andrew Breitbart and 2004 World Poker champion Greg Raymer. The open bar at Medaterra got quite a workout, with young conservatives ordering everything from beer to shots of redheaded sluts...
...submission period starts on Mar. 15 and ends on April 9. Check out the Web site for more information. Who knows? This might be your three minutes to fame...
...prepared for the post-Olympics fame crush? Though Olympic athletes tend to fade from consciousness after the closing ceremonies, Vonn's photogenic face, trumped so incessantly by NBC during a relatively high-rated Winter Games, isn't going anywhere soon. "I don't know, I think I blend in pretty well," she says about the potential of being hassled by strangers on the street. "If I put on a baseball cap, no one would really recognize me." (See 25 Olympic athletes to watch...
Jean, a multi-platinum artist, rose to fame as part of the Fugees, which released its first album, “Blunted on Reality,” in 1994. In 2005, he was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Original Song in a Motion Picture (“Hotel Rwanda”) for his song “Million Voices...