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...past few weeks four notable consumer magazines have folded, mostly because of a slump in advertising sales. Egg, which premiered last February a week before the death of doting founder Malcolm Forbes, dimmed along with the trendy bicoastal night life it chronicled. And publisher Steven Greenberg closed Fame, which had covered celebrities for two years...
...back in Antwerp, and by 1632 the new English monarch, Charles I, had brought him back to London, knighted him and made him "principalle Paynter in ordinary to their Majesties." For his last 10 years he moved between London, Antwerp and Paris, accumulating honors, commissions and fame. All in all, he was as genuinely international a painter as Rubens had been, though he did not fly at quite the same diplomatic height...
Much has changed since then. For one thing, breast cancer is widely discussed. Celebrity after celebrity -- a veritable Breast Cancer Hall of Fame -- has stepped forward to demystify the disease and soften its stigma, beginning with Shirley Temple Black, Ingrid Bergman and Betty Ford, and more recently including Nancy Reagan and Gloria Steinem. Lessons on cancer detection and the importance of mammograms are the subject of elaborate public information campaigns...
Even today, deception in music exists. Artists like M.C. Hammer routinely recycle past hits in the form of "sampling" to garner fame and glory for themselves...
...largest and most vicious Mafia family quickly regained his composure. After he was pushed into a car in handcuffs, impeccably dressed as always (for this occasion, in a double-breasted pinstripe suit with a bright yellow scarf dangling rakishly from around his neck), the "Dapper Don" of tabloid fame grinned at reporters and dismissed his latest arrest with an airy "No problem...