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Then I remembered Laverne De Fazio and Shirley Feeney of Laverne & Shirley fame. Many critics saw a direct connection between the antics of Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams and those of Lucy and Ethel on I Love Lucy. The opening credits of Laverne & Shirley, with the two title characters capping beer bottles on an assembly line, are reminiscent of the famous scene of Lucy and Ethel wrapping chocolates in assembly-line fashion in one of I Love Lucy's most enduring episodes. And after all, what are Lenny and Squiggy but an exaggerated Ricky and Fred...
Lacroix is learning the hazards of fame. He is now recognized all over Paris, and he is deeply embarrassed when asked for an autograph or cornered in a restaurant. Once an avid night owl, he now sends Rosensthiel to various events. "He stays in more, and I go out more," she says. "And people have got used to inviting him and getting me instead." She is often referred to as his muse, but she denies it. "I'm not a muse, but I amuse him," she says. "I'm not at his feet adoringly, but he can count...
...Fame has now turned to shame. In January, with Haiyan on the brink of bankruptcy, the provincial government fired the 55-year-old entrepreneur as plant manager, charging him with incompetence. What had gone wrong? For one thing, Bu misjudged a craze for Western-style suits and ties. He imported machinery that could produce 300,000 Western suits a year, but by the time he got it working, the market had shrunk. Moralized one Communist Party official: "Bu was overwhelmed by the honors given to him by the state and the people...
...they sometimes bribe officials in the state talent agencies to secure foreign contracts. Small though the performers' share of the fee may be, it is often enough to buy a Western automobile and finance a princely standard of living when they return home. But most who venture west seek fame as well as fortune. "In Poland I would pass my whole career almost unknown," says Polish Tenor Dariusz Walendowski, 32, an operetta singer who pays the Polish government's Pagart agency 15% of his average $500-a-performance fee at theaters throughout Austria. "I'm just beginning in Austria...
Loren D. Estleman's misfortune in life can be summed up in one name: Elmore Leonard. Were it not for his fellow Detroiter's surge to fame and best sellerdom, Estleman would doubtless be known as the poet of Motor City. An award winner both for private-eye fiction and for westerns, Estleman is, fittingly, never better than when describing a road and vehicles in combat on it. He is almost as good at evoking places, whether a sterile office complex, a blind-pig saloon in a ghetto, a shack in a Michigan version of Dogpatch or a patio...