He knew that by casting an actress who had been famous before the advent of the talkies and giving her classic lines such as 'I am big.
I was like, 'That's what I want to do.' This was before everyone had a thing called a smartphone and before the advent of the 'celebutard' – just being famous for famous' sake.
With the advent of the Seljuq Turks, the famous vizier Niẓām al-Mulk created an important college at Baghdad, devoted to Sunni learning, in the latter half of the 11th century.
He returned to England in 1843 a famous man, having discovered more of the Antarctic coast than anyone before the advent of flying.
A famous political theory links the birth of the modern nation-state with the advent of mass literacy and cheap reading material; a more up-to-date version would surely have to factor in television.And even that theory would now be hopelessly out of date, because in the digital age, both nations and their viewing habits have become utterly diverse.
Aside from tabloids such as the Daily Mail which uphold the old-school ideals of celeb reportage (three Cs: credulity, censoriousness and a concerted effort to divide women up into their constituent body parts), the advent of the meme age has transformed the way we talk about famous people.
The radios, made famous by movies like "Smokey and the Bandit," are still used by many truckers, despite the advent of cellphones.
She wants to charge him twenty dollars for a bottle of champagne after regaling him "with a saga of American commercial striving which commenced at the end of the last century and took in the construction of famous bridges, the invention of basic industrial materials, the compounding of fortunes through advantageous marriages, and the advent of the modern theme park".
He spearheaded the West Indies spin-bowling attack for a very long period just before the advent of the four-pronged pace (fast-bowling) attack for which the West Indian team was famous.
The julbocken can still be found around the country during Christmas time – the most famous one being the 13 metre high Gävle Goat, which has been erected on the first weekend of Advent every year since 1966.
