"This is a fatuous show with nothing fresh to say about popular culture and our fixation with fame, " his one-star write-up continued.
What this list shows is how the fascination with fame and the famous continues and newer ways of showcasing them are being invented all the time.
Kerouac, who had struggled with fame and alcohol addiction since the success of On the Road, ventured to Big Sur seeking solitude and a place to dry out.
Regular folk having a brush with fame has already been the subject of Craig Lucas' gentle comedy "The Lying Lesson, " in which a mysterious woman who visits a Maine town turns out to be Bette Davis.
Her older sister Georgina is already familiar with the fame game.
We then combine that earnings number with a fame metric based on web hits, press mentions, TV and radio mentions, magazine covers and social networking prowess.
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Those with the software skills to create new designs and upload them to the site are rewarded with hacker fame and remixes from others in the digital DIY community.
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The CEO of Idealab and Ubermedia is best-known for coming up with the pay-per-click advertising model, with GoTo.com (later renamed Overture and sold to Yahoo), that Google ran with to fame and riches.
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With great fame comes great pressure, though.
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She also suggests Upton (or any young model who is dealing with instant fame) take the time to consider the big picture and what she wants to do so that she is making things happen, not just reacting to what is happening around her.
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In a 2009 study, Ulrike Malmendier of the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA's Geoff Tate found that companies performed poorly after their leaders were voted "CEO of the Year, " because of the distractions that came with the fame, like writing a book and hobnobbing at Davos.
In a break from a training session during which he was firing balls at his charges with alarming speed, Liu admitted his fame comes with boatloads of pressure.
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Society seems obsessed with celebrity, fame and trivia while serious learning and difficult achievement take second place.
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Such schemes gained fame with the project known as SetiAtHome (for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) (FORBES, Nov. 15, 1999).
Stoudemire put this plan in motion last summer, working with Hall of Fame center Hakeem Olajuwon to improve his post-up game.
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He came to fame with the epic (and often confusing) TV show Lost which obsessed and infuriated viewers in equal measures.
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While Stewart and Pattinson have tried to balance out their Twilight fame with smaller, artier films, Lautner has embraced the big-budget blockbuster.
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The crew answered reporters' questions ranging from their thoughts and concerns before the moment of touchdown to how they're coping with their newfound fame.
Little wonder that Tolkien rode the gusts of Zephyrus to worldwide fame with his writings on the adventures of Hobbits, Elves, Dwarves and dragons.
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Romney's departure marks a rare defeat for the man who made his fortune in business and achieved fame with his rescue of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
The Cheeky Girls arrived in the UK from Romania in 2002 and shot to fame with their unsuccessful auditions in the reality TV show Popstars: The Rivals.
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Mr Mallon rose to fame with his introduction of US-style zero tolerance policing, earning the nickname "Robocop" for his uncompromising style as a detective superintendent in Middlesbrough.
Born Dwight Arrington Myers in Jamaica in 1967, Heavy D found fame with his band "The Boyz", scoring hits with such tracks as Now That We Found Love.
The Staples went on to international fame with Stax Records.
Whether justified or not, Barry, Sammy, Mark and Roger will all have a hard time being inducted into the Hall of Fame with the steroid tag following them forever.
He's set to spend a second-straight off-season working on post moves with Hall of Fame center Hakeem Olajuwon, a plan coach Mike Woodson initially suggested to help bolster the Knicks' inside presence.
There are a lot of women in tech beyond the tech celebs above and others like Sheryl Sandberg and Randi Zuckerberg, who shot to tech fame with their Facebook positions.
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Now a stalwart on the scene, Si Simo gained fame with the rap group Fez City Clan, making enough money from concerts and touring to move out of his run-down neighbourhood in Casablanca.
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