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How to use fame in a sentence

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His partners included almost all of the ballerinas who rose to fame between 1936 and 1962, when he retired from the stage.
Andrew, who has been dubbed the Welsh Maradona, shot to fame after videos of his keepy-up skills were posted on the internet.
The five won their chance of fame and fortune after a series of open auditions as viewers watched their highs and lows.
Clare's remarkable rise to fame has been the subject of in depth features all over the jazz press.
The great Roman porticoes derived their luster from the fame of the statuary they displayed.
Their talents and fame offered both true Icarian tragedy and final proof that money can't buy love.
If the Sun Line is good and the Fate Line is bad, success and fame cannot be predicted.
Some might look back on the hungry years and embrace the onrush of fame with relief, but not our man.
I lived a rather tumultuous life targeting for money power wealth authority status name fame and whatnot.
I find it funny that celebrities get so bent out of shape when the public complains about their use of fame and the media to spout their views.
Yet he was someone whose whole career was based on seeking more fame and his every action was made in order to gain further plaudits and praise.
Most jazz greats rose to fame in the 50s, and are well into their 70s today.
His greatest fame and popularity, however, came with colour prints designed for the mass market.
Those who cannot make their own fame will feed off the fame of others like a tick sucking the blood out of a dog.
That's often the price of fame and celebrity, and if you need proof, just ask Kieren Fallon.
He is the only person to be inducted to the respective halls of fame for rock musicians, country artists, and songwriters.
With neither fame nor letters of invitation, they had to ask friends for help.
He also used his growing fame to ensure that the Hong Kong maestro made his next movie in America.
Within a few minutes I am clicking away to photographic fame and fortune on my Sony digicam.
Yet this which should have consigned him to early oblivion really procured him immortality of fame and reverence.
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He seems to be handling the fame rather well considering the people he climbed over.
He certainly seems uneasy with the accoutrements of fame and says he hates being mollycoddled.
There is always a fear, with child stars, that their fame and success will deny them a real childhood.
Her desire to publish anonymously was not unusual because, for a woman writer, fame could often lead to infamy.
However, her rise to fame will be an inspiration to the thousands of joggers participating in Britain's biggest ever 10k road race.
At the height of their fame they received almost as much fan mail as the Beatles!
This energetic new group is locked on a mission for fame and are moving in leaps and bounds towards their goal.
But then life intervened and he went off to Wales to seek fame and fortune as a bingo caller.
To cope with the stress of sudden fame he took to drink, but these days never touches a drop.
Dubliner Colin Farrell seems to have his head screwed the right way as he takes fame with a pinch of salt.
His fame has been based on a physical voice and sexual virility, both affected by age.
By the age of 13, Jemima was gaining fame as a show jumper, qualifying with her pony for the 1987 Horse of the Year Show.
Too often writers become seduced by fame and lose the plot but Naipaul was always himself, a thrawn individual who knows his own worth.
As his fame grows and his popularity spreads, there are many traps lying in wait for him.
Cowes owes its fame to its small harbour and to Cowes Roads, the deep and sheltered waters that lead to it.
The Marquis de Portago achieved fame as a member of the Spain Olympic bobsleighing team and twice rode in the Grand National at Aintree.
Harold had won fame and wealth as a Viking, and had been an important personage at the Byzantine Court.
If this EP is her idea of a career move, the last place it seems likely to take her is the land of fame and fortune.
I think the more you do the more you encourage the myth of fame and stardom.
They are an adventurous bunch and many of them venture overseas to find fame and fortune.
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There was Lighthouse Harry of Revolutionary fame and a Harry Appelbaum who lived on the corner of 93rd Street and Lexington Avenue.
These sorts of events, intelligently and advantageously staged, can produce celebrities, or increase the fame of celebrities.
But eventually the fame had become too much, and I believe he had turned to drugs to escape.
Still, the big three, Port, Sherry and Madeira, have fame and historical importance.
He looked on writing as the occupation most likely to bring the fame that he ardently desired, and this helps to explain his next enterprise.
More than that, Bonnie and Clyde took off like a rocket, generating enormous profits and fame for everyone involved.
They are after the fantastic first prize we're offering this year which could set the winner on the road to fame and fortune.
At the height of his fame he suffered a nervous collapse, precipitated by family tragedy.
They had travelled south from York to seek fame and fortune, and seemed well on the way to finding both.
Bill Cosby may have gained his fame and fortune telling jokes and funny stories.
His brief ten-minute TV appearance so far hasn't brought him instant fame and fortune.
Two decades ago I achieved momentary fame for taping a promotion broadcast on our local public radio station.
In truth, it was more by accident than design but it was a lucky chance which established his fame and fortune.
Of course, being a roarsome gooperstar does come with its drawbacks, because as his fame grew, so did his fan base.
In 1869 he won fame as public prosecutor in the sensational murder trial that convicted Nancy Clem.
His fame grew as much from the enthusiasm of his admirers as from his own efforts.
The show was screened around the world and starred David Schwimmer of Friends fame and British actor Damian Lewis.
It was when he was at the height of his fame that he professed to love Minna and even offered to gorgonize her for posterity.
He shot into fame as one of the triumvirate during an All-India agitation against the partition of Bengal.
The fame of Henry I was assured by his victory over the Magyars near Merseburg.
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Liu won fame as the first Chinese to complete a solo voyage around the world.
Now he stands on the eve of his most testing hour and on the brink of fame such as few have ever enjoyed.
It can bring you prestige, renown, and a more lasting fame than Wonderbra commercials.
We start the story with Joey's arrival in Dallas, as he sets out to seek fame and fortune as an actor.
Everyone wants their child to succeed, but too many parents focus on future fame and riches.
There was no off-switch, and the seemingly clean-cut, anti-drugs pop star fell into every artfully concealed trap that fame laid for him.
His fame rests on his Annals and his Histories which related events from the death of Augustus to the Flavian period.
If they had set out to seek their fortune and fame then they would be severely tested in the years to follow.
However, I'm pretty sure that his biggest claim to fame is that of being one of the best live performers ever to grace a concert hall or stadium.
The selfishness of fame seekers is only matched by the personal cost they have to pay for the fame they seek.
A group of people wanting to know who has had the greatest influence on the development or fame of the town is asking just that.
So one can say he tried to lie his way to fame and fortune, and got a much-deserved comeuppance.
Later in his life, Palmer also won wealth and fame as a pioneer clipper shipmaster and designer.
So the reports flow in on Media Watch's snide little excoriation, laboriously trying to exploit the name and fame of my late father.
A barking mad pooch has tapped into fame with his ability to turn on the waterworks.
I did not have any preconceived idea of what fame was about or how much interest our relationship would attract.
However, if she wants to bump her fame indicant higher, then she needs to start networking.
The West Highland Way is second only to the Pennine Way in the hall of fame of British long-distance footpaths.
When he rose to fame as a uncatchable winger with the all-conquering Wigan rugby league side, he found the temptations too strong.
Herefordshire might be better known for its cattle, but without doubt its more pressing claim to fame is its cider.
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The show looks at the literary fame and social notoriety of the Romantic poet during his life and his contemporary legacy.
Charlotte Church shot to fame as the little schoolgirl with the big wobbly voice.
It seems so unfair that he should also have blarneyed his way to getting the fame and the girl and the money all in one sitting.
Davy is remembered for his safety lamp, but in his lifetime his fame was wider.
The claim to fame was not easy, admits Chowtha, who says it took more than six years for anyone in the industry to sign him on.
You have a lot of people that come forward that want the fame and the infamy of the notoriety.
A frequent theme in stories about New York is that of the out-of-towner's dream of crossing into Manhattan to discover fame and fortune.
Our love affair with fame is very bad for our health, and now science has proved it.
There is no doubt that Ben is right and the royal road to fame often involves poverty, hard work and a long training in one's art or craft.
He experienced instant success and fame without ever having been claimed by the artistic family to which he ought logically to have belonged.
So he's not the Svengali of myth who convinced a generation of kids that fame is a basic human right, regardless of ability?
Admiral Jellicoe found fame in Word War One as the admiral who led the British Navy at the Battle of Jutland.
Thus, the 15 minutes of fame for someone who takes herself way too seriously is extended, and another classic ad campaign jumps the shark.
Admittedly, he owes his fame largely to the media ballyhoo, but he's fed and clothed by the readers who have bought his books.
This final show told an overwhelming story of what people will put themselves through for fame and fortune.
We'll have the hits, maybe some hits-to-come, maybe some ruminations on the fame he loathes escalating into iconographic infinity.
The Pop artists shot to fame and fashionability very swiftly, and were much celebrated in the press.
He's in five bowling halls of fame as a bowler but is just as deserving as an instructor.
It is well reputed for its fine teaching but the pinnacle of its fame is its glorious chapel with its murals of intricate artwork.
But this part-time mason made it clear that he did not intend for his newfound fame to go to his head.
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In 1682 he achieved a certain fame by solving a problem which had been publicly posed by Ozanam.
Despite the fame and the globetrotting, the couple's domestic existence is reassuringly familiar.
Money, fame and an apple-cheeked freshness were being taken down by the seething underclasses.
He was one of the first Americans to experience the ups, downs and pressures of fame in the public eye.
Hebrew music came achieved legendary fame as it was performed in the Temple of Jerusalem.
Guys who participated in a lot of the first ever matches deserved the fame they got from them.
In this way, viewers decide which works to buy only on the basis of taste rather than the artists' fame or their collectability.
Already, feminist art history has moved on, sceptical of the way that artistic fame depends on biography.
He is reported as having suffered from clinical depression after the trauma of sudden fame and sudden mass public hatred.
How do you motivate yourself at 27 when you have already achieved fame and enough money to last a lifetime?
This is a surprising admission, considering how well he handled his sudden fame last season.
We hear the sound of a band growing used to relative fame and success and dealing with it thoughtfully on record.
She rocketed to fame as her alter ego Jordan, the nation's much loved and best known glamour model.
It's a 14th Century Norman castle, which gained fame as the last Irish stronghold to submit to Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads.
At both venues he backed artists of worldwide fame and made a number of radio and television broadcasts with his trio.
Fukui's biggest claim to fame was helming the launch of Honda's successful Fit subcompact in Japan.
And as this troupe climbs the high wire of fame it aims to keep the hometown crowd happy.
I've never gone big on the fame thing, because that means a whole lot more.
A happy life after death coincided with fame here on earth, where people would remember you in poetry and song.
This is Toronto's oldest hotel and its main claim to fame is that the Beatles once stayed there.
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The show explores the 15 minutes of fame bestowed on the participants of reality television.
Kin and Gin gained international fame for their beaming smiles, enormous vitality and shared longevity.
Parents must be rushing to the talent agencies with visions of fame and money for their poppets.
Luckily for Honey, her ticket to fame and fortune has been lurking at her club all along.
His fame comes from films that, in general, glorify violence and backwardness.
Fresh from his television fame in Happy Days, he co-starred with John Wayne in the latter's valedictory swan song The Shootist.
Her Ladyship is down for the weekend, so the latest entry into the Idiot of the Week hall of fame is just going to have to wait.
It has been enshrined in the holidaymakers' hall of fame since the 1971 inauguration of Walt Disney World in Orlando.
The puppet shot to fame on TV's late, lamented satire show Spitting Image, and is being sold off by the show's co-creator, Roger Law.
Up until recently, there's been no fame or glory for ultrarunning, which shows little sign of becoming a mass phenomenon.
Franklin used his fame to win an alliance with France, even letting himself be pictured in a beaver hat.
A Kingston comedian is dreaming of fame and fortune after winning a national talent competition.
Here's hoping fame doesn't corrupt them, because these boys are bound to go very far indeed.
For this he needs courage above all, and a sober, clearheaded approach to sport, to his own fame and that of others.
The real nub of the show is Madonna and our obsession with fame and celebrity.
It is easy to see why some celebrities change their name when fame beckons.
They gained local fame on the radio and auditioned successfully for a popular radio talent show.
Mrs. Tuitt's prowess and achievement at the sport of netball is another huge claim to fame which elevates her above the ordinary.
Their tournaments are televised, the winners are garlanded with fame and money.
Just think of the fame that would be attached to the discoverer of a new planet.
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The Gurkhas have earned their fame and have made their mythical and legendary figure toward the world.
Sitchin's claim to fame is announcing that he alone correctly reads ancient Sumerian clay tablets.
After finding fame and success you can't just fly by the seat of your pants.
Dixon leapt to fame in the 1980s with his wacky welded furniture made of bits of scrap metal.
And even in Gaelic tales, the island earned fame for being the penal colony where clan chiefs put their enemies in exile.
The fame was short-lived, however, as a Frenchman broke his record just a month later.
Because many of the biographees had more than one occupation or achieved fame in several areas, they are found under several rubrics.
Throughout the twenties, his fame grew with a number of large murals depicting scenes from Mexican history.
There's no real prize, just instant fame and the slim chance of surviving one more season.
It was the most spectacular way in which a poor boy could achieve fame and fortune.
And with it, the scent of fame and glamour and money wafted under her nose, pungent and alluring as any joss stick.
And his fame has nothing whatsoever to do with his prowess on the football field or in the political arena.
Giggleswick writer Julie Majzlik found fame after penning three successful historical romance novels.
Getting press as a graphic designer does not insure fame outside the profession, or respect in it either.
I mean who else is there to take up the slack for them, when their fifteen minutes of fame is running out.
If you're getting impatient for your 15 minutes of fame it's time to make your move.
Yes, the motives of fame and posterity are there, but the main thrust of their reasoning is that they want to stay alive.
They walk down the red carpet of fame with this tremendous halo of ego surrounding them, and they give very little back, if anything.
With fame and wealth come more opportunities to play away, but it is selfish to believe that only the players feel lonely.
Fertility expert Professor Winston shot to fame as a TV boffin after presenting a string of award-winning BBC science programmes.
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Unfortunately, it seems that self-indulgence and fame prevented Thompson from further, similar forays of genuine experience.
Finally, he'd be where all the real money, power and fame was, and Jessie would come with him, a bright bauble on his arm.
And while big celebrities loath its intrusion and sloppiness with facts, those chasing fame long to be in its pages.
These forgotten artists in particular are telling and powerful fame is a fickle mistress, and the ever-changing hip-hop culture leaves many behind.
In 1893, when Dixon was eighteen, Overland Monthly published his first illustrations, and he quickly achieved fame as a leading delineator of western life.
Such benefits, in tandem with fame and adulation that bordered on worship, unsurprisingly fuelled the desire to win at all costs and athletes were not above cheating to do so.
She is using this technique, which generations of African-Americans have used for survival, for fame and profit.
Though she sings in her native Bambara, her fame until now has been among western audiences who could not understand the often controversial messages in her songs.
Her rise to fame was hampered by a debilitating heroin addiction, stints in rehab, and troubles with the law.
He is determined to use his fame and money as a reality TV host to achieve the Holy Grail.
Dern has fame and the stature and rightful venerability of age on his side, Isaac does not.
Alistair first came into fame with his book about the Battle of Verdun, The Price of Glory.
I felt that the draw of the money and the fame and all that goes along with that lifestyle were traps for me in my life.
His rocket to fame was fueled by awe-inspiring talent and brash wit.
Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, she was tyrannized by her own image, driven to new levels of vanity in an endless, and ultimately foolish, pursuit of fame and immortality.
A new exhibit looks back at his rise to fame in all its messy, transfixing glory.
According to some rumors, Goya was once on staff before his fame as a Spanish painter.
Dispatched initially to rally Free French support in Cameroon and Gabon, he found fame for a number of morale-boosting military exploits in North Africa.
When she led Britain's women curlers to gold medal victory at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, her place in the Scottish sports hall of fame was guaranteed.
It's been over half a century since Shirley Temple rose to fame and helped revolutionize protections for child actors.
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For others, however, the reasons for the posthumous fame are more complex.
There's a heroes' guild from which you choose quests, and a bragging platform where you gain additional fame by opting to take on specific missions.
Conventional wisdom has it that the path to pop fame is instant and easy.
At the heart of Wyler's tale is his desperate lunge at fame and riches.
The Internet has set off a new phenomenon where people or events are catapulting to fame without the organisers or participants actually coming to know about it.
It owes its fame to the conjunction of an exceptionally hot summer and a momentous historical event, which temporarily ended the movement for social reform.
Since then, the magazine has gained fame for its relentless muckraking.
Nowadays, it's a case of get your bake on the television, make a complete clown of yourself, and then milk your 15 minutes of fame for as much as you can get.
But the inflated opinion Woodgate had apparently developed of himself in a rapid rise to fame and fortune seemed to be punctured by the court cases.
His fame rested above all on his ability to produce designs for tapestry, embroideries, stained glass, armory, and goldsmith work in the new classical idiom.
It's hard in the wind tunnel of fame and managers and fans and appearance fees.
After achieving fame through great struggle, an artist soon narcissistically focuses on his own success story, assuming the status of some sort of pop prophet.
But almost everyone was too concerned with skyrocketing to fame with their indie band or landing a bit part in some MTV movie to be bothered by academics.
It was an odd caprice of fate that an actor who would have preferred doing classical texts made his fame and fortune in something based on a comic book.
Courtney Love, on the other hand, emancipated herself at age 16, long before she gained fame as a rock star and actress.
He rose to fame in June 1958 when his debut single, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, sold more than 100,000 copies and made him the first Kiwi recording artist to achieve a gold record.
Alas, at his peak fame and success he died of an enlarged heart, just three weeks after hairspray was released.
Downey grew up in the shadow of his father, the Irish tenor Morton Downey, and vowed to eclipse his fame one day.
Any restaurant with a sustained fame ends up becoming a set, of sorts, and on that front, Sotto Sotto cinched it.
Who but one transported by fame into fantasy land could think it?
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Seattle Dancer's enduring moment of fame came in July 1985 when offered at the Keeneland July selected yearling sale at the height of the boom in the yearling market.
He let us know that fame and fortune is a seductress and that the rules apply to all of us no matter what our station in life.
His daredevil talent catapulted him to global fame as one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time.
This is clearly a step by Zimmerman to rehabilitate his image so he can hopefully profit off his fame down the line.
What seems surprising to me is not her fame but the sensationalistic aspect of it.
In return I can offer you glory, fame and a hatful of hyperbole.
In his opulent maroon suit, dickens flaunts his fame and fortune with so little subtlety he makes Kanye West appear modest.
We were not allowed to read of the Queen Mother's foibles, of course, perhaps because she achieved fame not through talent but via marriage and matriarchy.
His claim to Samian fame was that he was a political saviour and restorer.
It turns out that I was there for the last home win in Montreal Expos history, a small claim to fame that I'll hold onto tightly as the team fades down the memory hole.
He characterizes Skyllis and Dipoinos as the first sculptors to achieve fame by sculpturing in marble and notes that Bupalos followed in their wake.
He had brought world fame to his Anmatjere family with his striking Western Desert dot paintings, and had shaken the hand of the Queen at her garden party.
Rather, Mahone is well aware of, and repeatedly stresses, the stunning rise to fame he has experienced.
Because too often, YouTube fame is as fleeting as a thirty-second video of a pig saving a goat from drowning.
He is not a scrub, but let's not get that hall of fame speech ready yet.
Marek could play three chords on his nylon-stringed guitar, and Bolek had a sense of rhythm, so we reckoned our chances of a stab at fame and fortune.
He is a third-generation Kenyan whose parents won fame as palaeontologists and archaeologists focusing on the search for the origins of human life.
The gut-wrenching agony involved in a breakup is something no amount of money or fame can protect you from.
One of the claims to fame at Royal St George's is that it was recast as Royal St Mark's by Ian Fleming, and used as the setting for James Bond's epic match in Goldfinger.
Its rise to fame dates only from the middle of the 19th century when the river Baise was canalized and the Armagnacais gained direct access to Bordeaux for the first time.
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In 2011, Mahone traded in his cowboy hat for a trendy beanie, skyrocketing to viral fame through a series of YouTube music videos.
Fittingly, he achieved fame through a number of practical applications, discovering the critical relationship between capacity in the circuit, self-induction and resistance.
So how does such a creative, quietly self-possessing group of young men handle the fame and fortune that has so suddenly been thrust upon them this year?
He is the only man to have been awarded five stars on the Hollywood Walk of fame and this collection is a worthy testament to his singing talents.
The memorabilia problem is particularly nettlesome when dealing with an author whose fame derives from achievement on the playing fields or pop charts.
His fame rose further in the nineteenth century when his humble birth, scientific skill, and humanitarianism won the admiration of a democratic age.
Quite apart from the general role played by monastic orders in the history of wine, certain individual monks and monasteries enjoy vinous fame on their own account.
Most famous musicians are deep in the occult and it is difficult to find a worldly popular musician who has not dabbled in spiritism to acquire fame and wealth.
Kirstie, 53, who rose to fame and fortune with her role as the feisty Rebecca Howe on the hit '80s sitcom Cheers, has gone from va-va-voom voluptuous to formidably fat.
Vecchi composed some excellent church music, but his fame rests on his light madrigals and canzonettas, written in an eminently singable and attractive style.
We've all heard fabled stories of starlets like Lana Turner getting discovered by Hollywood agents at soda fountains, launching careers of fame and notoriety.
Oklahoma-born Tallchief rose to fame in the 1940s, when, at 17 she joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
Thurlow's claim to fame is his contention that Kerry's boat wasn't actually under fire in a 1969 incident for which Kerry was awarded a Bronze Star.
Dahl went on to attain nationwide fame and his own syndicated broadcast as a result of Disco Demolition Night.
This is the man who never gives up in his quest for fame and fortune.
But the horse's fame has spread since, so the odds have shortened.
Perhaps this is due to the effect that her fast fame as a prep school kid had on her actual prep school experience.
So who better to help guide these newcomers through sudden fame than belle herself?
He gained fame in his youth when he went to the regional spelling bee.
And even with the tsunami of fame crashing down, it only hardly fazes them.
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His fame is essentially on the back of a powerful business titan who misunderstood his original work.
I mean, that goes in the hall of fame of dodges and fishy explanations.
A lot of people don't know that your claim to fame prior to your two field goals in 2001 was catching Herschel Walker from behind on a kickoff return.
Seven years later, he was in charge of the Dunblane branch, and it is one of his claims to fame that, at 23, he was the youngest bank manager in Scotland.
But his determination to show subjects afresh won him the fame and opened the doors.
Miscavige became the leader of the church and chose as his lieutenant Marty Rathbun, who rose to fame because of his fearlessness.
Every ounce of the fame and fortune he craved had to be earned.
But those titles were not enough for 20-year-old hough, who used her DWTS fame to cross over into the music realm.
Cowering in a corner, eyelashes palely blinking, Amis looks as if he hopes to get through his 15 minutes of network fame by going entirely unrecognised.
The fickle old tentacles of fame have already had far-reaching effects.
Apparently the fame went right to this fella's noggin, by gum, as his hollerin' and harp-playin' have now become a permanent fixture at Barfly's bluegrass nights as well.
If the grad goes on to fame and riches you can take credit for generously providing the book that made all of the difference.
She shot to fame as a sultry seductress in Desperate Housewives.
Both sets of protagonists are torn between the American Dream of fame and fortune and the more comfortable pull to stay true to your station in life and neighbourhood.
I care as much as anyone about the name and fame of Basingstoke, but I am unenthusiastic about recent suggestions that the town could, or should, seek city status.
Its fame and wealth predated the 1855 classification of Bordeaux wines, but it was placed alongside the other first class growths in that classification.
For someone obsessed with the quirks of fame and applause, la diva may have lost a bit of her talent at garnering those perks.
The Cheers bar is owned by Sam Malone, a shameless Lothario whose claim to fame is his former career as a relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox baseball team.
At the same time as he has been seen endorsing products and promoting good causes, his sudden international fame has also set him up as a target for the gutter press.
The packed programme started shortly after 8 pm with Edwards, who shot to fame in the 1980s, making a special appearance together with local songster Indar Kanhai.
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Orbison's marital disasters and his rise to fame are spoken in the kind of treacly stage-American accent that make your toes curl.
Lister's fame had spread by then, and audiences of 400 often came to hear him lecture.
The musical creator of the Argentine National Anthem, Blas Parera, earned fame as a theatre score writer during the early 19th century.
Sandi, from Macduff in Banffshire, rocketed to fame this year after she performed in her basement and broadcast the gigs on the net.
Despite Scone's decline throughout the late medieval period, it some considerable fame for musical excellence through the composer Robert Carver.
He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle.
I did a lot of TV and decided to use the fame of being a centrefold to help educate others.
It was said that she was strongly interested in fame and fortune, and when household finances dwindled, she complained bitterly.
Sir Frank Williams of F1 motor racing fame was educated at St Joseph's College, Dumfries as was Charles Forte, Baron Forte.
How Manchester United's talisman had to wait quite so long to be accepted into the snoozy sponsors' hall of footballing fame is beyond reason.
Her tour in 1979 was the only one she did after coming to fame with hits including Wuthering Heights and Babooshka.
William Hung enjoyed a moment of fame because his inept song-and-dance routine was entertainingly mockable.
There's also the weekly dose of drunken eejits that have their 30 seconds of fame with the 24-hour camera and the Republic Of Phonebooth.
To keep their dreams alive, Chico and Rita travel to America in search of fame and fortune but Lady Luck can be a cruel mistress.
Interest in these events revived in the English Renaissance and led to Boudica's fame in the Victorian era.
Rick shot to fame in the 1960s with a band called The Overlanders and last year released his first new record in years.
And I heard that Tony Roberts of Santa Cruz Speed Wheels fame lived nearby, but was away on another sick surfboat trip somewhere in Exotica.
Trude shot to fame three years ago when BBC documentary Vets School featured her struggle to qualify as a vet.
Scott's fame grew as his explorations and interpretations of Scottish history and society captured popular imagination.
Eventually, with the publication of his six volume The History of England between 1754 and 1762, Hume achieved the fame that he coveted.
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The daredevil Winter Olympics star shot to fame as he finished last in the ski jump at the 1988 Calgary Games.
Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life.
He later moved on to the small scree, where he shot to fame through various intriguing works.
Keane was quizzed yesterday on why he picked novelist and screenwriter Roddy Doyle of 'The Commitments' fame to ghostwrite it.
Yet he left it all behind to become an Idaho sheepherder, deliberately pursuing the quiet life that he wanted most rather than fame and fortune.
The couple first got fame for starring in the 'Jon 'n' Kate Plus 8' show, which revolved around their life with their twins and sextuplets.
Many local businesses and organisations use the worldwide fame of Robin Hood to represent or promote their brands.
Lovecraft was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction.
Cillian, 36, who found fame in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, reveals he is as skeptical about the paranormal as the debunker he portrays.
Hailed as the psychedelic expression of a new generation, these Op Art experiments shot Riley to fame as a radical young breakaway.
Her fame in the 60s and 70s rivaled that of any celebrity in the world.
Honors and tributes flowed to Bell in increasing numbers as his most famous invention became ubiquitous and his personal fame grew.
It earned great fame during the Battle of Britain in 1940, when the Few held off the Luftwaffe attack on Britain.
More and more people live off fame and obviously there's some temptation to live off other people's fame.
Although his fame has been long eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The people of Canastota raised money for the tribute which inspired the idea of creating an official, annual hall of fame for notable boxers.
Where are the drunks, the cheats, the lechers and those that simply seek fame and notoriety?
Mrs Bailey's husband will find that his wife's megabucks and fame will become his spousal Superglue for the next couple of years.
Willy's main claim to fame was to use a smile and a shoeshine as the only sales technique one needs to be successful in sales.
The Scottish Football Museum operates a hall of fame which is open to players and managers involved in Scottish football.

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