Madonna and Michael Jackson, from whom those younger stars borrowed everything, are also using the medium to keep their fame alive.
Ederle did not sustain the lofty place in history of another hero of the 1920's, Charles A. Lindbergh, who crossed the Atlantic a year after her historic swim, or of the golden athletes who appeared regularly before the public and kept their fame alive.
But she's savvy as well, promoted herself effectively on social media when she had a porn career, and then used the same skills to build a new career that kept her old fame alive.
But Eichmann's capture, and the public acknowledgment in Israel that Wiesenthal had played a significant role in keeping the search alive, brought him considerable fame.
Carl Berner, a former toolmaker, toy-maker, factory owner and civic activist who achieved his greatest fame for simply staying alive, died at his home in Middle Village, Queens, on Monday, 20 days shy of his 111th birthday.
Perhaps it's their cultish fame that's kept them alive.
That Profile's fame, while keeping Gibbs's name alive, has also obscured his many, many other contributions as an editor and writer at The New Yorker, where he was employed from 1927 until his death in 1958.
Andy Warhol once said that every person alive would, during his lifetime, achieve 15 minutes of fame.
At least since "Reasons For Moving" (1968), his second volume, Strand surveyed his outward circumstances — relative health and prosperity, growing fame, the undeniable good fortune of being alive — from a peephole cut into the exterior wall of his solitude.
But that may not hold true in the case of Aaliyah, whose fame was steadily building while she was alive and then increased dramatically with the news of her death.
