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...purchase of instant fame requires a down payment. At 25, Chen is being baptized in the ritual of self-abnegation characteristic of Hong Kong's popular-entertainment industry, in which stars are not so much born as synthesized. "In Hong Kong, you're lucky to find one (artist) who can really compose and play," says Conrad Wong, an award-winning music producer who worked on five of Chen's songs. "They're usually made up. Talent scouts just pick kids up from modeling agencies or have talent searches at local karaoke bars, then companies select what they want, male...
...imagine what an epoch it was in my life when, unexpectedly two weeks ago, I got closer to fame than ever before, the before being the time I spotted Kato Kaelin in ninth grade and ran five blocks to make sure it was really...
...Well, the strike of 2002 was averted and the evening came off - but with one exuberant embarrassment. No. 6 was Pete Rose's all-time hit record. Suddenly, in person, there was Charlie High-Roller, banned forever from baseball, excluded from Hall of Fame consideration, but out there smiling and getting the biggest, longest cheers of the night...
...small, provincial” place where everyone knows each other. His acceptance to Harvard vaulted him to semi-celebrity status there, and not only did he make the front pages of the two national newspapers, he also landed a contract with one to write periodic essays. The fame also served him well with the ladies in Faroese nightclubs. “Expectations for my performance in life rose exponentially” he says of life post-Harvard acceptance...
...this irritates Monica's husband Seiku. "It is much ado about nothing," he says. "My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle." He is peeved at his wife's fame, in part because the press is constantly at his doorstep. "I want to stop this jamboree, people coming with cameras every few hours or so." He concedes that the locket is part of the story of Monica's ordeal but says no one should suppose there was a cause-and-effect relationship between it and the cure. "My wife did feel less pain one night when...