| Celebrities, for the most part, stand the test of time. | | | | Carl Douglas gave us the totally ridiculous song "Kung |
| Once they become stars, they remain stars until the | | | | Fu Fighting". While Douglas may have been |
| day they die and even beyond. But there is another | | | | yesterday's news after that song mercifully fell off the |
| type of celebrity. This kind is known as the "fleeting | | | | charts, the song itself has been in more Kung Fu |
| celebrity". They are said to have their "15 minutes of | | | | movies than you can possibly imagine. But NOBODY |
| fame", which was a phrase coined by the late Andy | | | | remembers who did it.And then of course there was |
| Warhol. Our culture has seen a number of these 15 | | | | the novelty song of the 90s, "I'm Too Sexy" by Right |
| minute wonders. We're going to take a look at just a | | | | Said Fred. These bald headed brothers probably grew |
| few of them here.Why don't we start off with two for | | | | hair after this total embarrassment of a song. Neither |
| the price of one? Remember quite a few years ago | | | | one of them has been heard from since and the song |
| when a 16 year old girl by the name of Amy Fisher | | | | only gets played as a parody. A very bad one.In the |
| had an affair with a guy by the name of Joey | | | | world of comedy, there was probably no greater 15 |
| Buttafuco? Amy ended up shooting the guy's wife in | | | | minute of fame star than the one and only Unknown |
| the head and ended up going to prison for 6 years. | | | | Comic. Murray Langston, who was so desperately in |
| Today, nobody gives her or Joey a second | | | | need of money at the time, didn't want his friends to |
| thought.Then of course there was Monica Lewinsky | | | | know so he put a bag over his head and appeared on |
| who had sex with President Bill Clinton. Of course | | | | the "Gong Show". He was an instant hit. He also |
| Clinton's celebrity status has not diminished since, but | | | | burned out faster than a speeding nova.And of course |
| Lewinsky has so fallen off the radar map that today | | | | who could ever forget the incomparable Blossom |
| nobody even knows where this woman is or what | | | | Rock? (who)? She just happened to play the |
| she's doing.Then there was the big scandal in the late | | | | grandmother on the short lived TV show "The Adams |
| 80s involving Jim Bakker, who began the Praise The | | | | Family". Rock was actually the little known sister of the |
| Lord Ministry in Fort Hill, South Carolina in 1974. A big | | | | famous actress Jeanette McDonald. Obviously she |
| sex scandal and some shady business dealings | | | | didn't have quite he luck or he talent.And the list goes |
| involving the PTL landed Bakker in prison for 45 years. | | | | on and on. So many that lasted so briefly. Makes you |
| Most people today don't even give him a second | | | | really appreciate those who have stood the test of |
| thought.In the world of music, a guy by the name of | | | | time. |