Risked a court-martial and the end of a skyrocketing career because he knew he was right."

Three years ago, Mr. Goldberg was managing the skyrocketing careers of Nirvana, Bonnie Raitt and others.

She is almost certainly the most consistently celebrated: while the skyrocketing careers of many of her 80's contemporaries have fizzled along with the market that fueled them, hers has held steady.

Ms. Ross, 49, has been characterized in books by or about members of the Supremes as a self-important, underhanded performer who manipulated people and left the group to promote her own skyrocketing career.

"Stardom," Denys Arcand's drama about the skyrocketing career of a young model, starring Dan Aykroyd, Frank Langella and Jessica Pare, will be the opening-night attraction.

It's hard to believe that the breakout singer is still starstruck by his breakout success, but he admits to still feeling like he's having an "out-of-body experience" when it comes to his skyrocketing career.

The video begins when a meteoroid heads for Earth, and lights up a city when it finally lands, symbolizing Spears' entrance to fame and her skyrocketing career in the late 1990s as she became a household name.

Other figures were Craxi's mistresses Ania Pieroni, who owned a TV station in the Rome area, and Sandra Milo, who had a skyrocketing career in the state-owned TV channels RAI.

Minmei had promised that she and Rick could still see a lot of each other once he joined the Robotech Defense Forces, but between his duties and her skyrocketing career as the SDF-1's homegrown media idol, that promise had been forgotten.