Donna Karan is no longer the press darling she once was, and that is to be expected.
He has blamed the media amid news of plummeting popularity and reports of despair, the intimation being that he is no longer a press darling.
Former press darling Theranos was very publicly revealed not to have its act together, either.
Based on the criteria in those days, eSnips was in fact delivering: It was able to convince top tier VCs to buy into an advertising-based business model, it leveraged user-generated content (the main activity is sharing personal media), used free storage as a hook, traffic was rising steadily, and it became a press darling domestically and internationally.
Dr. Harra, a licensed psychologist with abilities to channel the dead became a press darling a decade ago when she was seeing clients like actresses Candice Bergen, Courtney Cox, and Jennifer Lopez.
Once a laughable expansion team with obnoxious uniforms, the Rays have revamped their franchise into a competitive and savvy press darling.
My favorite is this bluesy, Stevie Wonder-inspired piano-bass-and-drum track featuring the haunting vocal support of press darling and chanteuse Lana Del Rey.
More often than not, you just get a bunch of water-muddying ads, such as the ones that seem to blame Barack Obama for being a press darling despite having something of an aloof, and often prickly, relationship with them.
Twenty years ago this week the Manic Street Preachers scored their first top 10 hit; not with one of the anthemic hymns to alienation that would make them briefly the biggest band in Britain in the late 90s, nor with one of the ludicrously assured brat-punk spitballs that made them music press darlings in their early career, but with a rocked-up cover of a 70s TV theme.
Yet, the startups has been around since 2008, and is bigger than Songza, Rdio and other press darlings.
