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You Really Don't Want To Be Famous

You Really Don't Want To Be Famous

Starring: P Diddy; Fatty Arbuckle; Marlon Brando; Mia Farrow; Tom Hanks; Alan Rickman; and, as the Lovable Illuminati Secret Agent, Leonard Cohen

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When I was younger, my brother Dick has just reminded me, we went to a psychic fair and had our readings done by some kind of medium.

“Am I going to be famous?” I asked eagerly.

“I wouldn’t wish that on anyone,” the medium replied.

How wise that medium was. But I’m sure at the time that wisdom would have gone right over my head. Fame was the thing I wanted…

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