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...There used to be a feature in the old Spy Magazine - a feature I used to occasionally write - called "Downhill from Here." The idea was that it was a portrait of some celebrity or public figure just a smidgen past the zenith of their fame, and how they were just about to start their descent. Bill Clinton is slaloming downhill fast; Alan Greenspan is about to start slouching toward the valley...
...Denniz was a star. You just felt safe with him. Even the most stressed person in the world would feel relaxed in his presence. And that was weird to me. At least here in Sweden, he was this big producer who had it all - fame, fortune, everything. Everybody was so surprised that he stayed exactly the same person. It's sad that people get surprised, because that's the way it's supposed to be. He should have all the credit in the world for this. If people only knew...
...childhood. During his half-hour talk, for which he arrived three hours late, the singer made reference to what he termed Generation O--"a generation that has everything on the outside...but an aching emptiness on the inside." Mostly Jackson used his time to paint a Hallmark Hall of Fame-style narrative of the emotional abuse heaped upon him by his father Joe. "I wanted a father who showed me love, and my father never did that," said Jackson. "He never gave me a piggyback ride; he never threw a pillow or a water balloon at me." After the speech...
...there's truth in the theory that bypass surgery damages the memory. Mine was once photographic. Now I have to work harder sometimes to fetch a name. The other day, for some reason, I wanted to retrieve the name of--you know, the gonzo journalist of fear-and-loathing fame...Rolling Stone...you know...But the once perfectly familiar words skittered off into the dark, and it was half a day before I caught sight of them as they dodged around another corner of the mind: Hunter Thompson...
...minutes of Top 40 fame and continuing to get airtime on pop stations even...