Jimmie Walker made it big playing J.J. on "Good Times."
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He must have made it big pursuing a music career.
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"He took that business and made it big," Rinke said.
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We made it big in the news, we couldn't be ignored.
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She made it big as a socialite and reality TV star.
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Like Leo, she made it big at age 6 (back in 1934).
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Cyndi Lauper had to file for bankruptcy before she made it big.
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Before they made it big, Drew admits, he was in $140,000 of debt.
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We often only see tech executives onstage once they've already made it big.
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Beef noodle soup just happens to be the permutation that made it big.
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Here are 250 iconic entrepreneurs icons who made it big after age 40: 1.
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But Ruby Rose chopped it off in 2009 right before she made it big.
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But before he made it big, Franco fought depression and addiction in his teens.
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And he's brown, one of the few who has made it big in Hollywood.
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He thought he'd made it big, but when the bubble popped, his windfall vanished.
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Try to see how many actors you can spot before they made it big.
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Keep reading to find out what comedians made it big despite getting cut from "SNL."
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Why do you think so few NWOBHM bands—other than Maiden—truly made it big?
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Before she made it big, Cate Blanchett appeared on the Australian miniseries "Heartland" in 1994.
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And singers like Mariah Carey and Alanis Morissette also made it big during the &apos90s.
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We're not sure where Chelsea Johnson is now, but we hope she made it big.
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I defy you to tell me one act that made it big without country radio.
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STUDIO Every celebrity has those funny list of jobs they worked before they made it big.
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Before Jennifer Aniston made it big in Hollywood, she was cutting hair as a high schooler.
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Apps were being developed, websites launched and once in a while, a startup made it big.
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You got lotsa girls, no girl looked at me until I made it big in Hollywood.
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Jennifer Lawrence first made it big back in 2010 when she starred as Ree in Winter's Bone.
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Here are other celebs who made it big, lost it all and then managed to bounce back.
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Bonomo made it big in the insurance industry and is the chief executive of Physicians' Reciprocal Insurers.
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Huawei still hasn't made it big in the United States, but it's a giant in the worldwide market.
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Those who made real money had sweated it out as early employees at startups that made it big.
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The two made it big in Hollywood together after winning Oscars for writing Good Will Hunting in 1998.
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It's been said that a tech company hasn't made it big until it has its own bespoke font.
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Q: When you made it big in the NFL, how did you learn how to manage that money?
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I wonder if she was surprised when Mr. Shepard made it big as a leading man in Hollywood.
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This is the support for a local band that made it big and toured around the world for decades.
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Similarly, he writes, The Beatles made it big in part because they had experience playing grueling eight-hour gigs.
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And to our surprise and delight, some of them started in the beauty world before they made it big.
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Feature The comedic duo has made it big by offering what few other shows can: a decidedly black perspective.
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But BAT started using nicotine salts before Juul made it big, spokesperson Joanne Walia tells The Verge in an email.
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"If I had made it big, I might be dead right now," said Frankie Pipps, drummer of the Hipp Pipps.
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Huawei has made it big at home, and it has expanded ambitiously in a quest to become a global brand.
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He was always the kid from Ohio that just really made it big in Hollywood but never took it too seriously.
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He was always the kid from Ohio that just really made it big in Hollywood but never took it too seriously.
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Not that all is lost; several secular Middle Eastern films have made it big abroad, and enjoyed screenings across the West.
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But before the actress made it big in Hollywood, she did her most of her red carpet shopping at the mall.
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Netflix was the first video streaming service that made it big, transitioning from a DVD rental program to a household name.
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O'Neill, an experimental downtown artist before he ever made it big, placed Harry Hope's saloon downtown, too, on the West Side.
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The tech industry is filled with the powerful stories of immigrants who made it big after moving to the United States.
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In 2014, Ma told Bloomberg he knew Alibaba had made it big when another customer offered to pay his restaurant bill.
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From the seedy streets of LA to the Bayview projects, these celebrities and entrepreneurs made it big after coming from nothing.
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After all, that's what people were saying about would-be competitors to MySpace in 2005, not long before Facebook made it big.
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Certainly, there are many examples of companies that have made it big in the Valley — too many to name here, in fact.
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From child entrepreneurs to adolescent philanthropists, "Kid Talks" will feature children who have made it big by fearlessly pursuing their own passions.
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Before this mini-musician made it big with his brother, he was just another rugrat playing in the rain in Waldorf, Maryland.
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Stanley Kubrick may have made it big in Hollywood and settled in England, but he was a New Yorker through and through.
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It became a place for the iconoclasts to connect, share tips and read interviews with their brethren who had made it big.
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Before he made it big, he struggled to make his rent payments and lived out of his car for about three months.
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Apple's comment: "We were incredibly inspired by hearing the founders of Spanx, Instagram, and other startups explain how they made it big."
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Curtis is a Hooters alum herself, having worked at a location in Tampa before she made it big on HGTV and DIY Network.
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Mostly he stares dead-eyed at the ground, offers vague catchphrases, then gives an anecdote about someone he knows who made it big.
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And for the stars who have already made it big on YouTube, a slice of revenue may not make much of a difference.
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"Truth Hurts" singer Lizzo shared photos of herself before and after she made it big, along with an inspiring message to her fans.
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George was an Ohio State legend just like Elliott ... but unlike Elliott, stayed out of trouble once he made it big as a pro.
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Vulture reports that the Twilight alum told Seacrest that he lived in L.A.'s Oakwood apartments back in 2006, before he made it big.
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" It's a reference to David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust days, he says—"I just thought it'd be funny to pretend that we've made it big!
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But before she made it big, her mother Yolanda Hadid made sure she maintained a low-key lifestyle, as far as fashion was concerned.
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But, if you ask what she's learned from success, it's that once you've made it big, it's the little things that make it all matter.
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The bonuses would come courtesy of a fraternity of well-heeled former wrestlers, several of whom happen to have made it big on Wall Street.
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They may claim that they get breakouts, in backstage interviews and lengthy magazine features once they've made it big, but we never see the receipts.
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Diahann -- who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 -- was a native New Yorker, born in the Bronx, who first made it big on Broadway.
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He spent his days studying acting with legend James Lipton and later appeared on Lipton's iconic show Inside the Actors Studio after he made it big.
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A lot of celebrity photos go viral, but sad Keanu Reeves really made it big in 2009 and sparked a series of Keanu Reeves-related memes.
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You made it big early about ... Mike Schroepfer: I mean, remember, I helped with onboarding Instagram when it was 10 million users when we bought it.
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Feist, who was making music in Toronto collective Broken Social Scene when Arcade Fire made it big, fits in the post period of what indie was.
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Mr. Trump and the Senate minority leader, a fellow outer-borough New Yorker who made it big, can share a modest rapport under the right circumstances.
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We all know Keys as the glowing, dewy face behind the no makeup movement, but back when she first made it big, she was struggling with blemishes.
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While the co-founders of Bantam Bagels have made it big, they told CNBC that nothing is going to change the way that they make their bagels.
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She had a few fights at Omnoi, a stadium that allows women but really made it big when she started fighting on ThaiRat TV for OneSongchai's promotion.
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Walker grew up poor in rural Texas, became one of the first kids in the Head Start program, and made it big on Wall Street in the 1980s.
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In Shotgun Angels, the artist also writes about his humble beginnings in Ohio and the many challenges he faced while pursuing his dream, before he made it big.
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In Shotgun Angels, the artist also writes about his humble beginnings in Ohio and the many challenges he faced while pursuing his dream, before he made it big.
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Since Ms. Trump made it big, Mr. Jankovic closed the historic city center to traffic, extended the hours of shops and much-improved restaurants and virtually erased crime.
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Then, in 2010, they made it big stateside after a video of Les Twins' performance on the San Diego leg of the World of Dance tour went viral.
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Chanel, Dior and Louis Vuitton have all made it big business, as the high jewelry market has flourished through and beyond the economic downturn of the last decade.
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Here is the full story of how Hot Topic made it big, from its humble start in a California garage to its soaring presence in malls across the continent.
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Wayne Newton had a few hits in the '60s, but he made it big as a Las Vegas lounge singer and was even the highest-earning performer in 1983.
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Alexis Ohanian may have made it big as the cofounder of Reddit and as a venture capitalist, but he spends more of his time discussing his newest job: fatherhood.
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One of the ways it grew the platform, and the thing that made it big, was bringing all these developers onto the platform to do all kinds of things.
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Messaging stickers seem to be in the middle of a similar transition, slowing but surely becoming more regularly used in our messaging conversations having initially made it big in Asia.
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We'd met when he was coming up in the underground electronic music scene in Boston, but since then, he'd made it big, working with huge stars like Diplo and Rihanna.
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The short clip features footage of Spears rehearsing for the music video, as well as her on set during the shoot and in interviews before the song made it big.
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The actor, who originally made it big as Elliot Alderson in Mr. Robot, initially believed taking on the part of Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic would ruin his career.
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That shared initial sounds forlorn, as if they were a family singing group—Jerry, Jeanie & Joe—that never made it big, and around them hangs a sense of chances missed.
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The main cast members of The Office have become some of the most famous names in Hollywood, but some of the show's minor guest stars have also made it big.
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Nick Young forgot all about his former high school basketball coach when he made it big in the NBA ... at least that's what the guy's saying in a new lawsuit.
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But all know the story of how the American-born son of Andrej Varchola and Julia Zavacky-Varchola made it big in New York, after changing his surname to Warhol.
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Last year, Lundberg literally "made it big" in Hollywood when YoMeryl, the creative studio that Lundberg started with Creative Director Sarah Zucker, produced two murals for the city of West Hollywood.
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But Grammy nominee Janelle Monáe, 33, says that before she made it big, combing through the racks for her next vintage find wasn't the money saver it was intended to be.
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The site has shone a spotlight on local residents who have made it big, including a dancer who went on to join the Cincinnati ballet in the United States, Siccos said.
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One quote, in particular, was a damning confession of sexual transaction from the producer: "No girl looked at me until I made it big in Hollywood," he lamented to interviewer Taki Theodoracopulos.
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Washington's current cutting edge, though, are more likely to name-drop local legends Metal Church, who never made it big but keep producing records, and just finished a tour opening for Megadeth.
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Shanghai Weiqing Network Technology has made it big in China, where it has filed to list its shares on China's over-the-counter stock market, the National Equities Exchange and Quotations (NEEQ).
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Brad Pitt has the classic Hollywood come-up story: he's a Midwestern kid from Springfield, MO who chased his dreams to the city of angels and made it big in the movies.
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We traveled the world to the homes of some of the NBA's up and coming stars to see where they came from, how they learned the game, and how they made it big.
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Few innovators have made it big in Japan, and most of them got started soon after World War Two, when Soichiro Honda began making motorcycles and Akio Morita launched what became Sony Corp.
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The entire village of 2,000 inhabitants turned out to see the local boy who made it big, though he took some private time to visit the synagogue and pause at his parents' graves.
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Before the 21-year-old made it big on the hit CW show, she was spending some of her time crafting elaborate makeup looks — and not the kind you'd wear to a homecoming dance.
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Grinder and Tinder both made it big, but — especially in the latter case — it seems like only a matter of months before the MySpace curse sets in and relevancy is bullied out by mockery.
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Like Google, Anahata made it big as a search engine, but now it has a hand in every tech pot, from social media to artificial intelligence to Genie, an app that predicts the future.
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Released two years before the singer made it big with Space Oddity, it hit record stores at the height of the hippie era, on exactly the same day as Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band.
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At the same time, this was a street kid who made it big, and then he wanted to know everything that there was about the business so that he could never be taken advantage of.
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Fans are happy to tell you all about the last Lebanese player who made it big: Rony Seikaly, a Beirut-born college star at Syracuse who played in the N.B.A. for more than a decade.
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We used to say a celeb really hasn't made it big until they land a coveted ad campaign, but nowadays it's not enough to star in a clothing campaign — they have to design the pieces themselves!
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" Here's a full list of the new digital programming (plus an exclusive clip of Burrell's show): "After a life of obscurity, Burrell has finally made it big with a starring role in the hit series 'Wingbot.
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Their study, published Wednesday in the journal Tobacco Control and first covered by CNN, reports that before Juul made it big, most vape juice ranged from 1 to 2 percent nicotine, with three percent marketed to heavy smokers.
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His personal physician, a quack who made it big by jabbing famous people in the butt so smoothly they didn't feel it, started sneaking some of it (along with morphine) into Hitler's daily "vitamin" injections during the war.
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English singer Justin Hawkins is best known for his high-pitched singing in the band The Darkness ... who made it big after they released their hair-metal single 'I Believe in a Thing Called Love' back in 2003.
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Olivia Holt, who made it big starring on Disney's I Didn't Do It and Kickin' It and now has 4.8 million Instagram followers and a beauty contract with Neutrogena, is entering a new phase in her career: Singing.
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LOS ANGELES — On Sunday, Ford Chairman Bill Ford and CEO Jim Hackett — with some help from Idris Elba, who worked at a Ford plant in England before he made it big — revealed the much-anticipated Mustang Mach-E.
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White's new film, "Brad's Status," which comes out this week, is about an upper-middle-class guy named Brad (Ben Stiller) who resents that all his college friends have made it big in startups, hedge funds, punditry, and entertainment.
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The most famous actual co-ed band is probably the brother-sister duo Akdong Musician, a pair of cute kids who made it big on an audition show; and even they get split up a lot to pair with other singers.
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The big picture: On its face, the marketing ploy doesn't make sense — lamb has never made it big for Americans; only half of Americans have ever even tried it, and lamb consumption in the U.S. has been declining, per Bloomberg.
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Gifford, 65, is opening up about her longtime friendship with Kris Jenner, joking about how she helped out the matriarch years before her family made it big on reality TV. "Kris was having financial problems," she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue.
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And when those inevitable challenges arise (or even before they do), it often seems that just about everyone — from your old coworker to your aunt who made it big in the tech boom decades ago — has some type of advice to share.
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Besides the music and the tragedy of Freddy Mercury's short life, the movie is about the son of Parsi immigrants from India (Freddy's real name was Farrokh Bulsara) who moved to Great Britain with his family and made it big on talent, drive and heart.
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Though the songs are often ridiculed by professional critics and many of the acts attract more fame for their over-the-top costumes and sets, a few winners have made it big, like Abba (Sweden, 1974) and Celine Dion (as a ringer for Switzerland, 1988).
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With two years left of medical school in her native Moscow, she followed her sensitive prodigy of a husband, Sergey, to New York, became an ultrasound technician and put Sergey through business school, always assuming she would become a doctor once he made it big.
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The shows are separated by 40 years of technological advances — a progression from the over-the-air broadcast era in which Mr. Lear made it big, to the cable age of MTV and CNN and HBO, to, finally, the modern era of streaming services like Netflix.
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She posted a video of the entire official music video of the song, which shows her recording the tune with the voice of Kim Possible herself, Christy Carlson Romano (who made it big on Disney Channel's Even Stevens before KP.) Yep, that same Juicy tracksuit is present and accounted for.
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Vine has a new feature for iOS app users called Soundboard, which lets users incorporate viral sounds within their own Vines, including Vine-sourced classics like 'why you always lyin' – it's basically an express remix feature for trying to give your own content some reflected glow from memes that already made it big.
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The site's biggest stars, the folks who made it big because Vine gave them a platform to be funny and creative, had already brought their talents elsewhere by the time Vine announced its own death — places where they could make more money (YouTube), make longer videos (Instagram), or just find the largest audience (Facebook).
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"I have had one or two interviewees with some sort of fortunate life event (like working for a startup company that made it big and paid stock options), but almost all of them grew their wealth the old-fashioned way: They earned a lot, saved a ton, and invested for a long time," he wrote.
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To pay the rent, he is obliged to take what he regards as demeaning gigs: tickling out Christmas carols and show tunes at a restaurant (the manager is J. K. Simmons, the fearsome Oscar-winner from "Whiplash"); doing '80s pop hits with a knowingly cheesy cover band; touring with a combo fronted by an old friend who has made it big.
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" Pointing out she is not a smoker, Ms. Gould ticked off some of the properties of the Juul that the company believes have made it big: the way the "formation of the e-liquid mimics the way the nicotine is delivered in a cigarette"; the fact that Juul was the first to "design an e-cigarette that was not cylindrical.
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