Granted, a plausible rival has recently emerged, in the form of another kinda-black-kinda-white guy who has lately come in for some serious global fame.
The 20-year-old rapper and singer has netted some serious internet fame, but he's never had a chance to get much face-time with his fans.
Tough childhoods, promiscuous adulthoods, serious illnesses yield fame, or wisdom, or at worst a battered serenity.
The Ask Hadley Institute is staffed by the finest scientific minds from 80s movies, including Yahoo Serious of Young Einstein fame, Doctor Emmett Brown, Jeff Goldblum from The Fly and Anthony Michael Hall from Weird Science, while Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy from Trading Places are on hand to provide ethical advice.
Girl Rising is also moving, beautifully shot, and sprinkled with some serious finance, and fame-filled fairy dust.
His first, like "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair," was a massive success, and brought with it the spoils of literary fame: serious-sounding praise, top-shelf liquor, actresses.
Consider Donald Trump: apparently unsatisfied by his success in the world of real estate, he has launched an at least semi-serious bid for fame in the political arena -- despite his admitted germ phobia, which would make shaking even a single voter's hand a most unlikely prospect.
She developed a reputation in Sweden as a serious artist uninterested in fame.
Serious soared to international fame, featuring on the cover of both TIME and Mad Magazine in 1989.
