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Coco Hernandez (Irene Cara) performs at a graduation ceremony in a scene from 'Fame', directed by Alan Parker, 1980. (United Artists/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Irene Cara was the voice of ambition

The Weeknd performs for the 2020 American Music Awards on November 22, 2020 in Los Angeles, California (AMA2020/Getty Images via Getty Images)

Why did the Weeknd alter his face?

Alvaro Jarrin - The Conversation

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How we talk about MJ and abuse matters

Rubble remains in the place where the Star of Donald Trump on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was destroyed by a vandal on July 25, 2018 (Getty/David McNew)

Trump could lose Walk of Fame star

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Rosie Perez and Josh Radnor in "Rise" (NBC/Peter Kramer)

"Rise": NBC's spring awakening

Melanie McFarland

Ernest Hemingway attends a bullfight in Madrid, Spain, November 1960. (AP)

How Hemingway dealt with fame

Verna Kale - The Conversation

Denis Leary (Peter Cooper/Getty/lucky-photographer)

Denis Leary: Fame killed the presidency

Leigh C. Anderson

When a regular Joe goes viral

Amanda Marcotte

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It's the future, we're famous

Omar Mateen (AP)

Shooters chase fame, suicide

Raj Raghunathan - Alternet

Bill Cosby (AP/Frank Franklin Ii)

Bill Cosby's media inferno

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(Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Salon)

Invisible people run the world

Daniel D'Addario

Angry Alec's enemies list

Peter Sheridan Dodds - Nautilus

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Tom Jacobs - Pacific Standard

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