The production starts with a group (in modern street clothes but barefoot) reiterating, both at different times and simultaneously, famous images from the Chosen Maiden's final solo of immolation: the trembling knees, the fist pounded on the floor, the anguished hand on the forehead, the deranged tilts of head and torso, the manual clutching of a single thigh.
Say hello to Desmond Hague, CEO of the food-service company Centerplate, who has made himself simultaneously famous and infamous on a Michael Vick scale by getting videotaped kicking and abusing his year-old Doberman puppy in a Vancouver hotel elevator. .
It is hard to imagine an author simultaneously so famous and so unfashionable, his novels frequently written off as prolix and unbearably dense.
It was, he added, caused by thousands of users' searching simultaneously for famous cultural works like the "Mona Lisa" or manuscripts of literature by Kafka, Cervantes or James Joyce.
It worked on TV and radio, it worked in print, and the celebrity agony aunt – most recently, Graham Norton offering wisdom in a weekend broadsheet – is still a fixture, presumably on the basis that it's impossible simultaneously to remain famous and question other peoples' morals.
Thanks to his business skills and rock cred, Giacchetto started working with Sub Pop Records, the iconic indie label that was simultaneously broke and famous for releasing Nirvana's first album, Bleach.
A few years back, at a theater in Westwood, I saw him quote a ballad by the French poet/thief François Villon, as translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, while simultaneously performing the famous party piece of his stage act, piercing the skin of a watermelon, or, as Jay puts it, the "thicker pachydermatous outer-melon layer," with a single playing card flicked at 90 mph from between his fingers.
"If it's possible to be famous, and simultaneously not well-known, that describes the father who raised me.
As you might expect from a man who has become famous while simultaneously effacing himself, creating an unreliable narrator comes easily to Marcos.
This weekend marks Purim, and the Book of Esther is famous for simultaneously conveying these opposing worldviews without favoring either.
According to Vulture's sources, Foley Junior will "take down the criminal elements of the rich and famous, while simultaneously trying to escape the shadow of his larger than life father".
