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was and celebrity
In the Golden Age of the American comic strip, successful cartoonists received a great deal of attention ; their professional and private lives were reported in the press, and their celebrity was often nearly sufficient to rival their creations.
He also hosted similar vehicles on the radio — and was a familiar celebrity guest on various other broadcast programs, including the long-running NBC radio series, Monitor.
Although Capp's endorsement activities never rivaled Li ' l Abner's or Fearless Fosdick's, he was a celebrity spokesman in print ads for Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pens ( along with colleagues and close friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ), and — with an irony that would become apparent later — a brand of cigarettes, ( Chesterfield ).
The scene in which, returning to her apartment, Bardot's character is harangued in the elevator by a middle-aged cleaning lady calling her offensive names, was based on an actual incident, and is a resonant image of celebrity in the mid-20th century.
The first issue was a Comic Relief special featuring assorted celebrity guests.
Her later work was more introspective in its lyrics as opposed to aggressive ; Hole's Celebrity Skin and Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, focused more on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while also carrying on past themes of vanity and body image, and Nobody's Daughter was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle to sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics having been written while Love was in rehab in 2006.
In 2010, golfer Tiger Woods was one of highest-earning celebrity athletes, with an income of $ 75 million and is consistently ranked one of the highest paid athletes in the world.
DeMille was one of the first directors in Hollywood to become a celebrity in his own right.
Brown's celebrity was cresting in the late 1940s, thanks to his success with teams at the high school, college and now professional levels.
One of the individuals involved in these initial studies at SRI was Uri Geller, a well-known celebrity psychic at the time.
Despite this, Thomas became a familiar radio voice and within Britain was " in every sense a celebrity ".
The show featured Judy Torres, Cynthia and The Cover Girls and was attended by several celebrity guests.
According to Murphy ’ s parody, when the television cameras were turned off, the sweet Gumby reverted to his true self: a cigar chomping, irascible celebrity who was highly demanding of the production executives.
The author contends that Lazarus was the likely writer of the Fourth Gospel, and used the pseudonym because his sudden celebrity after being raised was detracting from Jesus's message.
His television program, Championship Bridge with Charles Goren, was broadcast from 1959 to 1964 on the ABC network, and, in addition to numerous appearances by top players, included segments with celebrity guests such as Chico Marx, Alfred Drake and Forest Evashevski, among others.
After Owens left, Clark was assisted each week by a country music celebrity co-host.
He became the celebrity of the town, and was commissioned to make lots of art.
He is generally regarded as being England's greatest ever all-rounder, particularly in Test cricket, although having earned celebrity status, his award of a knighthood was
Historian Benjamin Platt Thomas wrote that Booth " won celebrity with theater-goers by his romantic personal attraction ", but that he was " too impatient for hard study " and his " brilliant talents had failed of full development.
The Fuller Farm Oil company was selling shares with a prospectus featuring the well-known actor's celebrity status as " Mr. J. Wilkes Booth, a successful and intelligent operator in oil lands ", it said.
COINTELPRO was first used to disrupt the Communist Party, where Hoover went after targets that ranged from suspected everyday spies to larger celebrity figures such as Charlie Chaplin who were seen as spreading Communist Party propaganda, and later organizations such as the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King, Jr .' s Southern Christian Leadership Conference and others.
The celebrity he attained in his practice was due not only to his great professional skill, but also in part to his eccentricity.

was and contestant
Charles ' son, Jack, appeared on the show on several occasions, and was a contestant on " Team Nemesis " during series 4.
Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.
In a similar vein, CBS-backed iWon. com gave away $ 10 million to a lucky contestant on an April 15, 2000 half-hour primetime special that was broadcast on CBS.
The show was responsible for the phrases " Say the secret woid and divide $ 100 " ( that is, each contestant would get $ 50 ); and " Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?
Groucho was the subject of an urban legend about a supposed response to a contestant who had nine children which supposedly brought down the house.
Olson's 28-year-old daughter, Sophia Shorai, was a contestant in the 2011 season of the talent quest American Idol.
Ferrigno was a contestant on season five of the NBC reality television series The Celebrity Apprentice, which premiered in February 2012.
Beauty pageant coach Victor Melling ( Michael Caine ), whose reputation was ruined after his last contestant criticized his methods, teaches the tomboyish Hart how to dress, walk, and act like a contestant.
The contest itself usually continued uninterrupted until one of the combatants submitted, which was often signalled by the submitting contestant raising his index finger.
Then Poisson was elected to the Academy, thus becoming a judge instead of a contestant, and leaving Germain as the only entrant to the competition.
In 1956, Olive Hodgkinson, a cave guide whose husband's family owned the caves for over 500 years, was a contestant on What's My Line?
* Jonbenet Ramsey ( 6 August 1990 – 25 December 1996 ) was a child beauty pageant contestant who was missing and found dead in her Boulder, Colorado home.
The Contender, a boxing show, unfortunately became the first American reality show in which a contestant committed suicide after being eliminated from the show ; the show's winner was promised a shot at a boxing world championship.
Tiffany Pollard, originally a contestant on Flavor of Love, was eventually given four additional reality series of her own on VH1: I Love New York, I Love New York 2, New York Goes to Hollywood and New York Goes to Work.
* " The Prize of Peril " ( 1958 ), another Robert Sheckley story, was about a television show in which a contestant volunteers to be hunted for a week by trained killers, with a large cash prize if he survives.
* The Running Man ( 1982 ) was a book by Stephen King depicting a game show in which a contestant flees around the world from " hunters " trying to chase him down and kill him ; it has been speculated that the book was inspired by Robert Sheckley's The Prize of Peril.
His four children with Nancy are: Nancy Moore Thurmond ( 1971 – 1993 ), a beauty pageant contestant who was killed when a drunk driver hit her in Columbia, South Carolina ; James Strom Thurmond Jr. ( born 1972 ), who became U. S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and is the current South Carolina 2nd Judicial Circuit Solicitor ; Juliana Gertrude ( Thurmond ) Whitmer ( born 1974 ), a married homemaker in Washington, DC ; and Paul Reynolds Thurmond ( born 1976 ), elected member of the Charleston County council.
" In another sketch on ISIRTA a lady contestant in a television quiz show was awarded Wolstenholme as a prize.
She was a contestant on season five of the US reality show, Dancing with the Stars ; she finished in sixth place, along with her partner, Tony Dovolani.
Also, the rules of the Individual Immunity Necklace were changed so that a contestant who won the necklace in a challenge was able to give it to another contestant.
As this was the former method of determining if a contestant was eliminated in case of a tie, a new tiebreaker format was developed.

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