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...Natalies, for their part, haven't had any contact with Portman. After all, they don't have much to say to the star. "Tell your stupid fans to stop writing me?! Somehow I doubt that would do much good," MacLean writes. Their minor claim to the name of fame isn't enough to change their lives in any way, especially after seeing the results of celebrity. "I don't feel like a star, although I'm kind of glad that I'm not famous now," says Natalie Guerrier...
...rest of the Natalies, they hold no grudge toward their more famous compatriot. The price of fame appears too high. As one particular e-mail to the Natalie support group ended, "Have any of you ever pretended to be Natalie Portman? That would be kinda funny. Well, maybe for like two seconds, anyway...
...says. "It still does, sometimes." But Mansfield, ever the sage, says his one-time protege's presidential bid is not so unexpected. "It doesn't surprise me," Mansfield says. "I always thought he was taken by Alexander Hamilton's phrase in the Federalist Papers that love of fame is the ruling passion of the noblest minds...
...Lily Chin, who travels the U.S. as a knitting instructor, the craft goes deeper than fashion and fame. "The U.S. is the hardest-working country in the world," says Chin, 38. "We need the downtime, and knitting has been scientifically proved to be a stress reducer." Since she began giving lessons in 1991, Chin has had a dramatic drop in the average age of her students. Why? Gloria Steinem had her day, but now Martha Stewart says it's O.K.--even empowering--to nest. "Sometimes I can work 12 hours a day and not accomplish much," explains Yassy Okamoto...
Dunne handed his information over to a new friend--Mark Fuhrman of O.J. Simpson-trial fame. Fuhrman had just written a book about the trial and was seeking a possible sequel. (His agent was Linda Tripp's pal Lucianne Goldberg.) With the Sutton material in hand, he headed up to Connecticut and, despite being "harassed" by the police, published his own investigation as Murder in Greenwich in June 1998. Fuhrman believes that testimony from the tutor throws into doubt Michael's original alibi and that his new story is "a concoction that puts him at the scene of the crime...