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There are no second acts in American lives. F. Scott Fitzgerald It struck me as simultaneously ironic and poetic when, a few weeks ago, two of music biggest icons — each of whom in their own way represented the intoxicating excess that goes with a certain level of celebrity — went through transitions that were as similar as they were different. One, at least, no longer has to please his public — or seek its forgiveness. The other now faces the task of disproving the famous F.

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Frank McCourt , the retired high school English teacher who became a best-selling memoirist, liked to say he had disproven F. Scott Fitzgerald’s adage about there being “no second acts in American lives.” McCourt, who had been gravely ill with meningitis after recently being treated for melanoma, died Sunday afternoon at age 78. He is best known for the first of three memoirs, Angela’s Ashes, about surviving an Irish childhood of near-starvation. It won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1

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Proving once again that F. Scott Fitzgerald was full of baloney when he stated that “There are no second acts in American lives,” former Idol laughingstock Sanjaya Malakar will join the likes of Heidi Montag and Rod Blagojevich on NBC’s summer reality program I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here . We can only hope that someone over at the Peacock has the foresight to drop them into the same Central American jungle where the Predator lives. [ Sling ] Read more posts by Mark Graham

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F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: “I was the spark that lit up Flaming Youth, Colleen Moore was the torch. What little things we are to have caused all that trouble.” In 1923, Colleen Moore’s starring vehicle, Flaming Youth was an international box office hit that ushered in the era of the Flapper. The Jazz crazy kids wore their galoshes unbuckled causing the rubber tongue to flap. Thus: Flappers. Colleen Moore, studio portrait in the Stars and Stripes. I’m waiting for that particular fash

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