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Some brushes with fame are more uplifting than others BY ERIC HANSON
MY SISTER MADE HER first trip to New York City years before I did. She saw all the usual sights, but her favorite story was about riding in the same elevator with Brooke Shields' father. Even though he was only related to someone famous, my sister got as close to him as you are to this magazine, and the anecdote became a fixture in any family conversation about New York, or fame, or elevators. I would tell my story about seeing Jack Nicholson from the chairlift at Aspen, and she would top me with her legendary meet-up with the rather of the actress and former child model in the Big Apple elevator.
I am from the Midwest. Does it show? People trom the Midwest need to prove their existence by attaching themselves to famous people, perhaps even more than the rest of America. We travel to places that are more important than the places we are from. While we are there, we are...