But there was, of course, a darker side to Amy Winehouse: a trail of disturbing media stories and paparazzo images tracked her painful disintegration.
The Midsummer Night's Dreaming project will reduce the length of engagement required of its audiences, and centre on a day of live events on Sunday 23 June in Stratford-upon-Avon. Artistic director Gregory Doran will direct a group of actors over three days, during which the young lovers Lysander and Hermia will actually elope, leaving a trail of digital media behind them.
No one reading his indelible trail of social media, which show Ravi glibly ridiculing his shy, gay roommate and inviting others to watch, or hearing his statements after his conviction, where he casually refers to Clementi's "troubles," would doubt his tastelessness.
It's also a world where Palin can mount a multicity bus tour, trailed by carloads of media, stopping by a string of states crucial to the presidential primary process and insist she's simply on a high-octane family vacation.
Cardinal Dolan also has a particularly large entourage — his every move in Rome has been followed by a trail of New York news media crews, and he has been joined in Rome by close to 1,000 well-wishers, among them relatives, friends, and Catholics from New York and the other dioceses in which he had served.
But even if the Trump team decides to let abusive for-profit colleges run wild again, actions like today's student lawsuit, plus probes by the honest law enforcement agencies still on the trail of fraud colleges, plus media coverage, will keep pushing accountability and getting useful information to investors and, most importantly, prospective students.
The agents fear that the trail will disappear in the glare of media scrutiny.Mr Franklin allegedly passed draft documents on American policy towards Iran to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee AIPACC), a hugely influential lobbying group in Washington, which in turn allegedly passed them to Israeli officials.
Its difficult production and disastrous premiere, which left a trail of vicious reviews and rubbernecking media coverage, turned it into a punch line, a symbol of all that was wrong with Hollywood and its excesses.
In recent weeks, speculation over a potential Biden run had grown rapidly as a breadcrumb trail of hints left in the media indicated to many he would throw his hat in the ring for 2016.
