"You can get infamous, but you can't get un-famous"

So said Dave Chappelle a couple years back on Inside The Actor's Studio. In the context
of himself and the recently-departed MJ, that was certainly the case, but Chapelle seems
back on the way to making his 'crazy' era an ever more distant memory, combined with a
genuinely quieter lifestyle.

BUT over the weekend I worked another short gig for a major festival in town, minding
agfter talent and took in a full range of fame, and it is truly relative. Fame also seems
to be rarely stable, and when you work with a variety of people
riding the crest or sliding into the trough it becomes all the more how quickly most of it can
slip away. The savvier artists can hold onto enough fame to eke out a living for years though-
and they're the ones who are consistently consummate professionals, with minimized egos
and graciousness in place.

Unfortunately some of the ones on the way up have not yet learned the lessons, and
while everyone I dealt with was totally nice and (mostly) talented, the trappings of things
like a bunch of bodyguards etc. comes off as a little silly. I know of few successful 'soft'
managers in the business, many more operate as 'hard' at all times, but the best seem
capable of either and determining exactly when being one or the other is necessary.

After the performances were complete, everyone was shipped off (or in the case of some
locals, biked home), and off to the next town, like any other traditional travelling show
or circus. It's a tough life, no doubt, even on the higher end a nice hotel ain't home, but they
do it anyway at least until that last bit of notoriety is gone for good.