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...memoir, he used the anecdote as a jumping-off point for talking about playing with paper dolls when he was young, watching his mother's moment of fame on the television show "The Big Payoff," listening to her talk about white people and going with her to PTA meetings...
...NICKELL AND BART EVERSON, A couple of goofy, twentysomething guys from Bloomington, Indiana, are sick of small fame. For three years their satirical public-access TV show has played to critical acclaim in the greater Bloomington area, but it has never attracted the kind of national attention that would capture a slot on network TV. Though local sponsors chip in enough to keep Everson clothed, housed and fed, Nickell still has to support himself as a waiter. So the pair set their sights beyond broadcast TV, beyond cable TV, to the computer networks. Last week, as their 85th episode, Global...
...slow-moving one, like a line of aged elephants lumbering around the big top. For months, the media focus had been on big names: Judge Lance Ito as he slowly lost his patience, breezy houseguest Kato Kaelin as he triumphantly pranced into his 16th minute of fame. But court watchers were reminded again last week that the most important people in the Simpson case are the ones known, like deli patrons, simply as numbers...
...letters (when he would go dervishing through the culture, talking tough, chewing the furniture), his 27 books have drawn a permanent and distinctive trajectory. His obsessions usually lead back into the continuum of the 1950s and '60s, into the universe of the cold war, of media metastasis and dangerous fame, of glamorous, conspiratorial violence, of the garish existential dreads and lusts (to use the old hyperthyroid Mailer vocabulary) that it has been his gift to conjure...
...process, Judge Landis denied men like Shoeless Joe Jackson and Buck Weever their rightful places in the Baseball Hall of Fame...