As countzero1 pointed out (he was told it by a couple, when visiting in 1982), the infamous Vesuvio Café in San Francisco, which is right in front of the City Lights bookstore (both of Beat Generation fame), has a scrawl on the rim of the entrance, that reads: "We are itching to get away from Portland Oregon".
We asked Aaron Carter, of "Aaron's Party" and "That's How I Beat Shaq" fame, to give the record a listen and report back.
We profess dismay at Mr. Sheen's long history of drug abuse and violence against women, but we have also enabled and indulged this behavior, and lately encouraged his delusional belief that he could beat the toxic fame machine at its own game.
Perhaps all the exhibitionism has to do with the all too self-evident fact that inside every human being who has ever consciously sought fame beats the heart of a person desperate for attention.
But for Rolle, a 22-year-old unknown who has toiled on the far edge of tennis fame, beating the equally anonymous Karin Knapp of Germany qualified as a career-changing moment.
One young woman, who had to have 25 stitches to her head and many more to her legs after soldiers beat her, rose to fame for throwing Field Marshal Tantawi (the chief of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces) out of her hospital ward when he had the gall to come to visit.
In the 1990s and the early part of the 2000s, Mr. Miller was the Joe DiMaggio of mutual fund investors, achieving fame for beating the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index for 15 consecutive years, from 1991 to 2005.
Founded by Sampat Devi Pal, who was married off around the age of 13, had her first child at 15 and is essentially illiterate, the Pink Gang — an all-women's vigilante organization estimated to have around 20,000 members, named after their pink saris and batons — gained fame for beating up men who had abused their wives.
Gary Wolstenholme, the reigning British Amateur champion, whose main claim to fame is beating Tiger Woods in singles during the 1995 Walker Cup competition at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, said he did not have designs on winning the Open, but would just like an opportunity to get into the field.
