Celebrities - 15 Minutes Of Fame

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 theFu Fighting". While Douglas may have been
day they die and even beyond. But there is anotheryesterday's news after that song mercifully fell off the
type of celebrity. This kind is known as the "fleetingcharts, the song itself has been in more Kung Fu
celebrity". They are said to have their "15 minutes ofmovies than you can possibly imagine. But NOBODY
fame", which was a phrase coined by the late Andyremembers who did it.And then of course there was
Warhol. Our culture has seen a number of these 15the novelty song of the 90s, "I'm Too Sexy" by Right
minute wonders. We're going to take a look at just aSaid Fred. These bald headed brothers probably grew
few of them here.Why don't we start off with two forhair after this total embarrassment of a song. Neither
the price of one? Remember quite a few years agoone of them has been heard from since and the song
when a 16 year old girl by the name of Amy Fisheronly gets played as a parody. A very bad one.In the
had an affair with a guy by the name of Joeyworld of comedy, there was probably no greater 15
Buttafuco? Amy ended up shooting the guy's wife inminute 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 secondneed of money at the time, didn't want his friends to
thought.Then of course there was Monica Lewinskyknow so he put a bag over his head and appeared on
who had sex with President Bill Clinton. Of coursethe "Gong Show". He was an instant hit. He also
Clinton's celebrity status has not diminished since, butburned out faster than a speeding nova.And of course
Lewinsky has so fallen off the radar map that todaywho could ever forget the incomparable Blossom
nobody even knows where this woman is or whatRock? (who)? She just happened to play the
she's doing.Then there was the big scandal in the lategrandmother on the short lived TV show "The Adams
80s involving Jim Bakker, who began the Praise TheFamily". Rock was actually the little known sister of the
Lord Ministry in Fort Hill, South Carolina in 1974. A bigfamous actress Jeanette McDonald. Obviously she
sex scandal and some shady business dealingsdidn'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 secondreally appreciate those who have stood the test of
thought.In the world of music, a guy by the name oftime.