While playing popularity-obsessed Quinn Fabray on "Glee," actress Dianna Agron already confessed to classmates that she'd had her nose done, and on an appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman," she made a similar confession.
"Because I'm not playing a popularity game.
This might sound like Heathers for the social media era, but for one of the most famous women on the planet, playing the popularity game is good business.
Ms. Wasserstein's abundant gift for comedy and her plays' popularity disguised the more serious ambitions underpinning her writing.
The study found that role-playing, interface design, multiplayer gaming, independent play, popularity and virtual pets were the order of game attributes users took into consideration when playing MMORPGs.
It's probably fair to say that his fame is part fortunate timing, part singular talent, as the boom in Let's Play popularity has coincided with his own brand's growth in such a way that if it wasn't him, it'd almost certainly be another gaming YouTuber who's getting magazine covers, global fame and fortune, and the piss ripped out of him by online commenters.
But for a Supreme Court justice to have to play the popularity game — to need, particularly, to dumb herself down in order to try to take her place among our country's most powerful legal minds — is rather new, and striking.
Smith, who can claim a worldwide career box-office total of a staggering $4.4bn, plays the popularity game to perfection, refusing to be yoked to any one genre; when he flits nimbly between romantic comedy (Hitch), socially conscious drama (The Pursuit of Happyness) and science-fiction (I, Robot; I Am Legend), he takes the audience along with him.
Playing off the popularity of home-staging shows on HGTV, Mr. Colombie decided to try schooling homeowners interested in moving to Timber Oak how to sell their properties quickly.
There was also James Coburn's "Our Man Flint" in 1966, as well as its sequel a year later, comedies clearly playing off the popularity of Bond.
During the past several years, though, Mr. Leggio has enjoyed renewed popularity, playing regularly in the suburbs within an hour's drive of his Tarrytown apartment.
