Articles Tagged with #fame
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Video
In the Last Ditch
Don’t bully yourself over your career. Just redefine “success.”
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Personal Histories
The Gambler
In which the novelist and magician Tim O’Brien makes the author disappear, and a family funeral puts a father’s sleight of hand on full display.
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Gallery
All About Eves
Eve becomes a woman of many lives, whether trying her first cigarette or weeping in a wedding dress.
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Profiles
Main Street, USA
Sinclair Lewis despised his hometown in Minnesota. It disliked him, too, especially after being lampooned in a bestselling novel that mocked the citizens for their small-town ways. These days, though, he’s all they’ve got.
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
The Complete Biography of North West
A baby is born to a celebrity couple. Meanwhile, many more babies are born to countless other non-famous couples. This is what happens next.
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TMN Weekender
There’s Someone You Should Meet
The media focus on Britain’s Royal Uterus this week was a valuable reminder of how tiresome fame can be, and how detached from extraordinariness it can be. Kate...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
15 Pop-Cultural Abysses From Which There Is No Escape
A New York City cop was sitting alone in his apartment. He was watching the new season of Arrested Development, which he had been very excited about. After years of...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
How Amanda Bynes and the Teens Saved the Human Race
But the internet was different—we were different—before she joined Twitter. Before she began to show us who we really are. We were still used to who...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
Cultural Literacy for Old People
Your eyes don’t totally glaze over when someone tells you the latest news about Chloe Moretz. Maybe you have a general sense that One Direction is a boy...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
How We Break Up
In most cases they seem to stretch well past the sell-by date of whatever relationship they were originally attached to. It makes sense, narratively. The part of the relationship where...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
Behind the Scenes: Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Breast Insurance Policy
While promoting the second season of Lifetime’s The Client List, the 34-year-old actress admitted to USA Today that she would consider getting her breasts insured. “I need,...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
Worst Job Ever: Suri Cruise’s Doppelganger
A tiny little body double leading photographers away from wherever Suri wanted to be, the latest scam in a long line of scams that began with Tom Cruise’s...