Alex Jones, a syndicated radio host, can build fame as a conspiracy peddler; politicians can hint at conspiracies for votes and leverage; but if conspiracy theories are a tool the average person uses to reclaim his sense of agency and access to democracy, it's an ineffective tool.
The scene was set at Ermenegildo Zegna for a world that encompasses more than the sartorial tailoring on which the company built its fame.
This game was not about 38-year-old Patrick Ewing, the knee-padded former Knick returning just eight miles from where he had built his fame for 15 years, and now wearing a uniform colored in rust for Seattle.
As a founder member and former executive chair of Brietbart News, Steve Bannon had a hand in creating media monster Milo Yiannopoulos, who built his fame and Twitter following by supporting and cheerleading Gamergate.
Hari built her fame on attacking popular food products such as Starbucks' pumpkin spice latte, Kellogg's breakfast cereals and Subway rolls, distilling "health" into a series of hashtags: #realfood, #livepure, #cerealkiller and #foodbabeway among them.
India has responsibilities too: it should acknowledge that several of its generic manufacturers have built their fame and experience on making quality medicines available to poor countries at the lowest possible prices.
The differing tastes of Colin and his father, a Unesco employee in Rome -- one looking for the latest fashion, the other seeking nostalgia for the tried-and-true -- are one strand of the toy industry upheaval that has helped to cloud the fortunes of Lego, the Danish multinational that built its fame on the popular interlocking play bricks.
He built his fame and fortune on the media and telecom sectors newspaper, cable, broadcasting and telephone stocks–and isn't going to desert them now.
It's taken stars who built their fame in still Instagrams, 6-second Vines and off-the-cuff Snapchat clips, and helped them shoot high-production four-minute YouTube videos.
