On a foggy evening on 8 February 1983, one week before the start of Shergar ’ s second season at stud-with up to 55 mares-a horse trailer arrived at the stud buildings and he was transformed “ from celebrity racehorse to cause célèbre ” ( The Guardian ).

He transformed the games from straight athletic contests into complete entertainment packages, with a long list of special promotions and celebrity appearances.

Starchitect is a portmanteau used to describe architects whose celebrity and critical acclaim have transformed them into idols of the architecture world and may even have given them some degree of fame amongst the general public.

His debut role in TV serials was in Dil Dariya where he went quite unnoticed. The magic of Fauji transformed him into an overnight celebrity.

Some of these celebrity DJs toured around the world and were able to branch out into other music-related activities.

The various dramas each describe the relationship between Keller and Sullivan, depicting how the teacher led her from a state of almost feral wildness into education, activism, and intellectual celebrity.

Although Scott had attained celebrity through his poetry, he soon tried his hand at documenting his researches into the oral tradition of the Scottish Borders in prose fiction – stories and novels – at the time still considered aesthetically inferior to poetry ( above all to such classical genres as the epic or poetic tragedy ) as a mimetic vehicle for portraying historical events.

A lengthy legal battle with the school system ensued, and media coverage of the case made White into a national celebrity and spokesman for AIDS research and public education.

By the late 1930s Dewey's successful efforts against organized crime — and especially his conviction of Lucky Luciano — had turned him into a national celebrity.

Contrary to the fashion industry's celebrity trend of the previous decade, lingerie retailer Victoria's Secret continues to groom and launch young talents into supermodel status, awarding their high-profile " Angels " multi-year, multi-million-dollar contracts.

He was the first celebrity to go into the Hall, and was inducted at a ceremony prior to WrestleMania XX by Kane himself.

The wheel was divided into six equal sections, one for each celebrity.

Jacques Villeneuve was one of several celebrity Canadians who carried the Olympic flag into Vancouver Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony of the 21st Winter Olympic Games.

The actor appeared at a celebrity baseball game as the Monster in 1940, hitting a gag home run and making catcher Buster Keaton fall into an acrobatic dead faint as the Monster stomped into home plate.

The New York Times credits bookstore owner Andreas Brown and his store, the Gotham Book Mart, with launching Gorey's career: " it became the central clearing house for Mr. Gorey, presenting exhibitions of his work in the store's gallery and eventually turning him into an international celebrity.

Johnson was turned into a national celebrity by the writer Tom Wolfe in a classic 1965 article for Esquire magazine.

The agent's company has been planning for years to turn the last survivor of the Creedish cult into a religious celebrity.

Macross also created one of the first anime idols Lynn Minmay, turning her voice actress Mari Iijima into an instant celebrity, and launching her musical career.

Media coverage of the case made White into a national celebrity and spokesman for AIDS research and public education.

The film, based on Robert Graysmith's book The Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes ?, portrays Crane as a happily married, church-going family man and popular Los Angeles disc jockey who suddenly becomes a Hollywood celebrity, and subsequently declines into sex addiction.

The final ( 1973 – 74 ) season of his variety show would be retooled into one of celebrity roasts, requiring less of Martin's involvement.

Castle-Hughes received widespread critical acclaim for her performance and the film turned her into an international celebrity.

The man dived off O ' Connell Bridge into the river in front of hundreds of people, and became a celebrity due to the circulation of videos of the rescue on the internet.

In 1916, a Polish American employee of Feltman's named Nathan Handwerker was encouraged by celebrity clients Eddie Cantor and Jimmy Durante to go into business in competition with his former employer.

The US has evolved into a nation with industries focused solely on celebrity gossip, TV shows, music, and blockbuster hits, making the US a highly-mediated nation with a strong focus on celebrity.

" Gray achieved celebrity status for his monologue Swimming to Cambodia which was adapted into a film in 1987 by the filmmaker Jonathan Demme.

It is this period, along with the 1978 and 1979 albums that created the mythos Jimmy Buffett has parlayed into icon status as a performer, restaurateur, entrepreneur, author, and celebrity.

Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, she is a watershed figure in the history of modern celebrity and, as one of silent film's most important performers and producers, her contract demands were central to shaping the Hollywood industry.

Bias is also known to exist in sports broadcasting ; in the United States, broadcasters tend to favor teams on the East Coast, teams in major markets, older and more established teams and leagues, teams based in their respective country ( in international sport ) and teams that include high-profile celebrity athletes.

Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honour.

While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either ; and his development of operatic structures, melodic styles and orchestration contributed significantly to the foundations upon which Giuseppe Verdi built his dramatic technique.

In December 2010, a cross-eyed Virginia opossum in Germany's Leipzig Zoo named Heidi became an international celebrity.

Earhart was a widely known international celebrity during her lifetime.

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The long dispute has made him an international celebrity.

Buffalo Bill ’ s Wild West was enormously successful in Europe making Buffalo Bill an international celebrity and an American icon.

Although Julian never succeeded in flying across the Atlantic, his efforts made him an international celebrity, and in 1931 Emperor Haile Selassie invited him to Ethiopia to take part in his coronation ceremonies.

Delpy became an international celebrity after starring in the 1990 film Europa Europa directed by Agnieszka Holland.

He soon became a major international celebrity, starring in Big Deal on Madonna Street ( 1958 ); and in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita ( 1960 ) with Anita Ekberg, where he played a disillusioned and self-loathing tabloid columnist who spends his days and nights exploring Rome's high society.

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The Jackie Chan Cup, first held in 1984, is an annual celebrity auto race involving international motor journalists and starlets from across Asia in Mitsubishis with professional Touring Car drivers alongside for assistance, and was held before the Macau GP until 2004 when it moved to Shanghai.

Each of the various dramas describes the relationship between Keller — a deafblind and initially almost feral child — and Anne Sullivan, the teacher who introduced her to education, activism, and international celebrity.

Adamson worked closely with publishers to promote the book, which contributed to the Adamsons ' new-found international celebrity.

The popular success of his book and the international press made him a major celebrity.

Beginning with the publication of her 1964 essay " Notes on ' Camp '" Sontag became a life-long international cultural and intellectual celebrity.

Xena: Warrior Princess, like its parent program, was a hit, lasting six seasons, and Lawless became an international celebrity.

Green brought in English international footballer and celebrity John Fashanu as the club's high-profile new chairman in the winter of 2002.

The club has been host to many national and international celebrity guests such as Jazztronik, Gilles Peterson, Toshio Matsuura from UFO, DJs Ravi, Julien Love and Two Dee, and Soil and Pimp Sessions.

With the release of Metal Gear Solid ( MGS ) in for the PlayStation, Kojima became an international celebrity among the video game media.