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Strange, though, are the ways of fate and fame. The movie shows Lewis' bravado being directed at his cousin, revivalist Jimmy Swaggart, who is portrayed at more or less regular intervals denouncing rock 'n' roll as the "devil's music" and praying for the redemption of Jerry Lee's blighted soul. But the real-life Swaggart has since been brought low by the revelation of particularly tacky sexual practices. Lewis' music, manner and morality now seem almost innocent in comparison with what has followed him up the charts and into the hearts of adolescents during the past three decades. Even...
Acting as a public policy adviser is not the only way to gain fame at Harvard. In other departments with less public appeal, Harvard's professors are known internationally...
Kevin Costner is the man of the moment and a star out of his time. What other actor would think to achieve rampant movie fame by playing a Soviet spy and two baseball fanatics? For Costner, though, the improbable risk was a good career move. As Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, he played the straightest arrow in Prohibition-era Chicago and made saintliness sexy. As Tom Farrell, the cryptic intelligence officer in 1987's No Way Out, he brought devious modernity to a character right out of a '40s suspense novel. As Crash Davis, the bush-league catcher...
...seemed to enjoy his fame, even when it resembled infamy. He reminisces fondly about a mid-year incident in which he was half-jokingly criticized after telling The Crimson that he signs his names to desks in Lamont...
...Pons and Fleischmann's fame soon turned to infamy, as other scientists began to question the pair's experimental method and results...