fame and fortune

In this world of Kardashians and Real Housewives, there's something very refreshing about discovering someone with actual talent.

It’s good to know that there’s still kids out there who don’t want to take the shortcut to fame and fortune, rather that they are willing to work hard and let their talents lead them to super stardom.

Who doesn’t want fame and fortune? Even if you don’t want one, you definitely want the other. But once you get to that point and beyond, just how much is too much?

At what point does the nonstop attention and ridiculous bank account cause you to start to lose your mind a bit?

Now that some of the smoke from the Charlie Sheen time bomb has settled a bit, we at Guyism got to thinking… What have some of our favorite meltdowns (both mild and major) of the rich and famous been?

Here’s what we came up with.

A film is reportedly being made tracing Harry Potter author JK Rowling's rise from writing alone in an Edinburgh cafe to finding fame and fortune.

Here are 25 people who traded their normal existence for fame and fortune and now feel bad about it.

Real estate tycoon and multi-billionaire Donald Trump says that he was born with the right set of genes that enabled him to have fame and fortune.

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To find fame and fortune in America Hugh Laurie had to adopt a trademark limp for the role of Dr Gregory House.But that realistic limp could force him out of the TV series that earns him £250,000 an episode because of the pain of contorting his body.

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What follows is a list of those folks who carry that dubious distinction, some of whom went onto great fame and fortune (Ben Stiller, Damon Wayans) and some of whom, well, were never really heard from again (Yvonne Hudson, Beth Cahill).

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