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...purchased over the years. "As soon as [the donations] were made official, my father would walk through the streets and people would throw themselves at him," says his son, Juan Carlos Botero Zea, 44, a novelist who moved to Miami five years ago. But the artist's fame also makes him and his family prime targets for kidnapping. Botero slips into Colombia for brief visits about three times a year, traveling in an armored car with bodyguards provided by the government. In 1993, gangsters came to Botero's house in Colombia looking for him; he was not at home...
...contorting everything by enforcing an “ends justify the means” attitude. Today, there are very few strong ethical role models and far more models of those who compromised their values or completely relinquished any set of values in order to achieve fame and fortune...
Wolff’s father, Rick Wolff ’74, was drafted after his junior year at Harvard by the Detroit Tigers, while his grandfather, the famous Bob Wolff, was a Hall of Fame broadcaster most notable for his work with the Washington Senators...
...tough times, people often turn to a higher power-sometimes even higher than TV. It's hard not to see the effects here of the postelection focus on spiritual values. Grant doesn't talk about religion on Three Wishes, but Christian music is her claim to fame. There's a quasi-spiritual cast to Home Edition (and not just because an itinerant carpenter works miracles across the land). Participants talk openly about prayer, and the show often involves local churches. Todd Boyd, a professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California, attributes this to a greater religious openness...
...smile. Through two busted marriages (with actresses Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman) and questions about his commitment to Scientology (about which he's increasingly ardent--there was a Scientology tent on the War of the Worlds set), Cruise has frolicked in the clean mainstream. For ages. His claim to fame, Risky Business, was 22 years ago. He's been a star longer than Humphrey Bogart...