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...Reagan and Mrs. Lindbergh were the bright side and the dark side of the age of publicity. Mrs. Lindbergh lost her first-born child to the savagery of fame. She hated the jackal press. She felt safe from it only when she was up in the air in a two-seater plane with her husband, cut off from the earth. She thought all celebrity was empty, and cherished her private world...
...When sports fans in the 1950s argued the talents of baseball Hall of Fame center fielders Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and Duke Snider, conversations centered around home runs and championship rings, not the sharpness of their tongues. Too bad for the kids growing up in the Golden Age of Baseball. Look at what they were missing...
...person who does things because of issues of prestige," says Felice J. Perlman '71, a college roommate. "She doesn't do things for ambition or fame. She does things because she's interested in what she does...
Which is to say, you have entered the environs of Knoxville--as in Jackass star Johnny Knoxville, the alias of P.J. Clapp, 29, who started on the road to fame by sending MTV a video in which he had himself gassed with pepper spray and shot with a Taser. (He and MTV agreed not to air a segment of the video in which he put on a bulletproof vest and shot himself.) And if you're nonplussed--and maybe a tad defensive about being nonplussed ("But I'm cool! I liked Beavis and Butt-Head!")--Knoxville is doing...
...rise to fame began when he saw drummer Larry Mullen's ad on a high school bulletin board. Together with Dave "The Edge" Evans and Adam Clayton, they formed one of the most prolific rock bands in history...