Items tagged fame

• Coming Through Slaughter: The destruction of a man

  Michael Ondaatje's first novel is a textured, heart-breaking collage of jazz cornetist Buddy Bolden's life and times in New Orleans.

• E! True Hollywood Stories: Extreme Philosophical Edition

  An exploration of the ideas underlying our starry-eyed obsessions.

• Fame on film

  How a medium that is itself engulfed in fame has something to teach us about public people.

• True fame

  On putting our instincts on hold to re-evaluate human worth.

• Consuming toward exile

  On claiming culpability in the case of the star everyone loves to hate.

• Rock Star Fever

  A proposed cure to a very attractive disease.

• A self in comparison

  Reflections on ambition, identity, fame, fortune and family.

• Give me liberty or give me death

  A review of Garth Jennings’ film Son of Rambow.

• Boomerang

  Exploring life lessons about public image in an episode of Firefly.