ticket to fame

When I got into this business, however, they were saying that writing was a one-way ticket to fame and prestige.

Any one of these roles, of course, could be a ticket to fame and fortune.

It was his ticket to fame and fortune.

At least as much as collective talent, familiarity was their ticket to fame.

"That would be my ticket to fame."

Yet they all yearn to turn their home crafts and cooking recipes into a ticket to fame and fortune.

Yusuf's success has given other young musicians the idea that working with Khaled might be a ticket to fame.

Still, more than a few African artists laboring in impoverished anonymity see MTV as a possible ticket to fame.

But this is Hollywood, and Jeremiah Gerbracht and his dog, Lady Harley, think of them as tickets to fame.

His last venture, a video duplication business, fell on hard times, but this was supposed to be his ticket to fame: a featherweight, inflatable car seat for toddlers.

Often seen as saviors, protectors, and tickets to fame and fortune by members of the public, the tabloids can viciously turn against the subjects of sensational stories.

"Actually, I hate violence, I hate it," he said, although he has certainly purveyed wholesale murder and dizzying brutality as a ticket to fame and fortune.

Andy Warhol's ticket to fame was, of course, the Campbell soup can, and the dominant color in "Electric Soup" is a deep tomatoey red.

When the feckless Sherman, self-styled "master of the universe" for his wheeling and dealing on Wall Street, is arraigned on hit-and-run charges, he becomes everybody's ticket to fame, fortune, community influence or political office.

It was sailing into the right-field stands when, in a split second he will never forget, Mr. Popov reached his mitt high into the air and cupped that beauty, his ticket to fame, fortune and history.

Being a dwarf, in fact, is sometimes a ticket to fame and fortune, as in the case of Joseph Boruwlawski, last of the court dwarfs, who enchanted European royalty, married a beautiful woman, and lived happily to the age of 98.

The former Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader and Las Vegas showgirl from New Jersey has trained in everything from acrobatics to ballet, and is hoping that dance will be her ticket to fame and her way out of debt.

Like Jean Genet in post-World War II France, Mr. Busi has come to represent the successful misfit, the all-too-articulate, exhibitionistic incarnation of marginality and iconoclasm in a country where flamboyance has long been a sure ticket to fame and fortune.

Mr. Burroughs's ticket to fame was just a few seconds on screen in "Sideways," pouring wine for the actors Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, who play Miles and Jack, two old college friends off on a week of wine-tasting and carousing in Santa Barbara County.